There has been a lot of discussions for the last few years about glvnd on
the mesa-devel list and at XDC. This is not Fedora specific technology, but 
a change in how Mesa will work everywhere and thus there has not been a lot
of discussions about it here on Fedora-devel. But that is true for most stuff,
we do not discuss major new kernel features here that much either as one 
example.

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Pokorný" <jpoko...@redhat.com>
> To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 2:32:35 PM
> Subject: Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25
> 
> On 06/02/17 05:06 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> libglvnd is a solution for this it is a vendor neutral
> >> implementation of libGL.so.1 which acts as a dispatcher
> >> to one or more glvnd enabled libGL implementations
> >> installed on the systems.
> > 
> > By doing so, it decreases performance for all the users of the Mesa
> > drivers by adding an unnecessary layer of indirection. I do not see
> > performance being addressed at all in any of your communication, did
> > you even try to measure the impact of the added indirection layer?
> 
> These are the thoughts that crossed my mind as well, I'll admit.
> 
> Do we have any sort of measurements or at least the related theoretical
> backgrounds, such as "indirection will impose a small slowdown, but
> only at the very initial phase of execution till all the necessary
> symbols are resolved, no effect since then"?  Is it in fact worse?
> 
> The fact there was no serious discussion about the change is rather
> unsettling, IMHO.
> 
> --
> Jan (Poki)
> 
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