2009/12/29 Thomas Hellstrom <thellst...@vmware.com>:
> Kristian,
>
> I was looking at how Swapbuffers is done with DRI2 when a fake front is
> present:
>
> The back buffer is copied to the real front, and then the real front is
> copied back to the fake.
>
> This causes some problems in the vmwgfx drivers where reading from the real
> front should be avoided if at all possible.
>
> Assuming that apps that really care about stuff X has rendered to the real
> frontbuffer will explicitly call glxWaitX, could we perhaps change this
> behavior to:
>
> 1) Copy back to fake front.
> 2) Copy fake front to real front.
>
> Or would that break something?
I think that should be fine, though I prefer copying the back to front
and fake front, when present? Like the attached patch, which also
avoids flushing and creating the region twice.
cheers,
Kristian
diff --git a/src/glx/x11/dri2_glx.c b/src/glx/x11/dri2_glx.c
index 89efe3a..0d3b1a2 100644
--- a/src/glx/x11/dri2_glx.c
+++ b/src/glx/x11/dri2_glx.c
@@ -83,8 +83,6 @@ struct __GLXDRIdrawablePrivateRec
int have_fake_front;
};
-static void dri2WaitX(__GLXDRIdrawable * pdraw);
-
static void
dri2DestroyContext(__GLXDRIcontext * context,
__GLXscreenConfigs * psc, Display * dpy)
@@ -223,12 +221,10 @@ dri2CopySubBuffer(__GLXDRIdrawable * pdraw,
/* should get a fence ID back from here at some point */
DRI2CopyRegion(pdraw->psc->dpy, pdraw->xDrawable, region,
DRI2BufferFrontLeft, DRI2BufferBackLeft);
+ if (!priv->have_fake_front)
+ DRI2CopyRegion(pdraw->psc->dpy, pdraw->xDrawable, region,
+ DRI2BufferFakerontLeft, DRI2BufferBackLeft);
XFixesDestroyRegion(pdraw->psc->dpy, region);
-
- /* Refresh the fake front (if present) after we just damaged the real
- * front.
- */
- dri2WaitX(pdraw);
}
static void
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