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From: "Noralf Trønnes via B4 Submission Endpoint" <devnull+noralf.tronnes.org@kernel.org>
To: "Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	"Javier Martinez Canillas" <javierm@redhat.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
	stable@kernel.org,
	Noralf =?unknown-8bit?q?Tr=C3=B8nnes?= <noralf@tronnes.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 6/6] drm/gud: Enable synchronous flushing by default
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:26:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221122-gud-shadow-plane-v2-6-435037990a83@tronnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221122-gud-shadow-plane-v2-0-435037990a83@tronnes.org>

From: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>

gud has a module parameter that controls whether framebuffer flushing
happens synchronously during the commit or asynchronously in a worker.

GNOME before version 3.38 handled all displays in the same rendering loop.
This lead to gud slowing down the refresh rate for a faster monitor. This
has now been fixed so lets change the default.

The plan is to remove async flushing in the future. The code is now
structured in a way that makes it easy to do this.

Link: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/07/02/splitting-up-the-frame-clock/
Suggested-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
index 92189474a7ed..62c43d3632d4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
@@ -25,17 +25,13 @@
 #include "gud_internal.h"
 
 /*
- * Some userspace rendering loops runs all displays in the same loop.
+ * Some userspace rendering loops run all displays in the same loop.
  * This means that a fast display will have to wait for a slow one.
- * For this reason gud does flushing asynchronous by default.
- * The down side is that in e.g. a single display setup userspace thinks
- * the display is insanely fast since the driver reports back immediately
- * that the flush/pageflip is done. This wastes CPU and power.
- * Such users might want to set this module parameter to false.
+ * Such users might want to enable this module parameter.
  */
-static bool gud_async_flush = true;
+static bool gud_async_flush;
 module_param_named(async_flush, gud_async_flush, bool, 0644);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(async_flush, "Enable asynchronous flushing [default=true]");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(async_flush, "Enable asynchronous flushing [default=0]");
 
 /*
  * FIXME: The driver is probably broken on Big Endian machines.

-- 
2.34.1

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 6/6] drm/gud: Enable synchronous flushing by default
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:26:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221122-gud-shadow-plane-v2-6-435037990a83@tronnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221122-gud-shadow-plane-v2-0-435037990a83@tronnes.org>

gud has a module parameter that controls whether framebuffer flushing
happens synchronously during the commit or asynchronously in a worker.

GNOME before version 3.38 handled all displays in the same rendering loop.
This lead to gud slowing down the refresh rate for a faster monitor. This
has now been fixed so lets change the default.

The plan is to remove async flushing in the future. The code is now
structured in a way that makes it easy to do this.

Link: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/07/02/splitting-up-the-frame-clock/
Suggested-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
index 92189474a7ed..62c43d3632d4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
@@ -25,17 +25,13 @@
 #include "gud_internal.h"
 
 /*
- * Some userspace rendering loops runs all displays in the same loop.
+ * Some userspace rendering loops run all displays in the same loop.
  * This means that a fast display will have to wait for a slow one.
- * For this reason gud does flushing asynchronous by default.
- * The down side is that in e.g. a single display setup userspace thinks
- * the display is insanely fast since the driver reports back immediately
- * that the flush/pageflip is done. This wastes CPU and power.
- * Such users might want to set this module parameter to false.
+ * Such users might want to enable this module parameter.
  */
-static bool gud_async_flush = true;
+static bool gud_async_flush;
 module_param_named(async_flush, gud_async_flush, bool, 0644);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(async_flush, "Enable asynchronous flushing [default=true]");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(async_flush, "Enable asynchronous flushing [default=0]");
 
 /*
  * FIXME: The driver is probably broken on Big Endian machines.

-- 
2.34.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-30 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-30 19:26 [PATCH v2 0/6] drm/gud: Use the shadow plane helper Noralf Trønnes via B4 Submission Endpoint
2022-11-30 19:26 ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-11-30 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] drm/gud: Fix UBSAN warning Noralf Trønnes via B4 Submission Endpoint
2022-11-30 19:26   ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-11-30 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] drm/gud: Don't retry a failed framebuffer flush Noralf Trønnes via B4 Submission Endpoint
2022-11-30 19:26   ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-11-30 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] drm/gud: Split up gud_flush_work() Noralf Trønnes via B4 Submission Endpoint
2022-11-30 19:26   ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-11-30 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] drm/gud: Prepare buffer for CPU access in gud_flush_work() Noralf Trønnes via B4 Submission Endpoint
2022-11-30 19:26   ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-12-01  8:51   ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-11-30 19:26 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] drm/gud: Use the shadow plane helper Noralf Trønnes via B4 Submission Endpoint
2022-11-30 19:26   ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-12-01  8:55   ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-11-30 19:26 ` Noralf Trønnes via B4 Submission Endpoint [this message]
2022-11-30 19:26   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] drm/gud: Enable synchronous flushing by default Noralf Trønnes
2022-12-01  8:57   ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-12-01  5:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] drm/gud: Use the shadow plane helper Greg KH
2022-12-01 10:00   ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-12-01 10:00     ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-12-01 12:12     ` Greg KH
2022-12-01 12:12       ` Greg KH
2022-12-01 13:14       ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-12-01 13:14         ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-12-01 13:21         ` Greg KH
2022-12-01 13:21           ` Greg KH
2022-12-01 13:34           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-12-01 13:34             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-12-01 14:16             ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-12-01 14:16               ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-12-01 14:20               ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-12-01 14:20                 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-12-01 14:27               ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-12-01 14:27                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-12-01 14:32                 ` Mark Brown
2022-12-01 14:32                   ` Mark Brown
2023-01-05 12:35                   ` Daniel Vetter
2023-01-05 12:35                     ` Daniel Vetter
2023-01-05 16:00                     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-01-05 16:00                       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-12-01 20:52               ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-12-01 20:52                 ` Noralf Trønnes
2022-12-06 15:57 ` Noralf Trønnes

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