Re: [PATCH 2/2] hw/display/vmware_vga: do not discard screen updates

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

  Hi,

> This change firstly increases the screen update FIFO size to ensure it's
> large enough to accomodate all updates deferred in a given screen
> refresh cycle.

How do you know it's large enough?

> @@ -385,7 +385,14 @@ static inline void vmsvga_update_rect_delayed(struct vmsvga_state_s *s,
>  {
>      struct vmsvga_rect_s *rect = &s->redraw_fifo[s->redraw_fifo_last++];
>  
> -    s->redraw_fifo_last &= REDRAW_FIFO_LEN - 1;
> +    if (s->redraw_fifo_last >= REDRAW_FIFO_LEN) {
> +        VMWARE_VGA_DEBUG("%s: Discarding updates - FIFO length %d exceeded\n",
> +            "vmsvga_update_rect_delayed",
> +            REDRAW_FIFO_LEN

Hmm, apparently you don't know ;)

How about just calling vmsvga_update_rect_flush()
when the fifo is (almost) full?

Which guest do you use btw?  I'm kind-of surprised this is still being
used even though it hasn't seen any development (beside fixing a bug now
and then) for a decade or so and the feature gap to recent vmware is
huge ...

take care,
  Gerd