Hi,
I have notice that in current driver implementation.
When GL_DYNAMIC_DRAW flag is set in glBufferData, driver will not upload data to
Graphics memory.
Instead it will upload the _entire_ vertex/index buffer when
glDrawElements/glDrawArray was called.
This sometimes brings a huge bottleneck ,
e.g. in Skia.
Skia allocate a 256k vertexdata buffer and a 64k indexdata buffer as pools, and
use glBufferData to upload the pools.
Most of the Skia draw operations will only use a few vertexes in the pool, but
driver will upload the _entire_
buffer each operation.
This becomes No 1 bottleneck for Skia bench with GPU.
I have tested if reduce the pool size to 1k, many tests in Skia bench get 3x to
>10x performance improvement...
Per my understanding. Even GL_DYNAMIC_DRAW is set in glBufferData, driver
should not copy the entire buffer
When glDrawElements/glDrawArray is called, it should copy only used
vertex/index.
Otherwise this is too heavy in Skia like usage scenario.
Thanks
Zou Nanhai
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