Threaded swap wait was added for using together with the Nvidia GLX
driver due to the lack of anything equivalent to the INTEL_swap_event
GLX extension. The purpose was to avoid inhibiting the invocation of
idle callbacks when constantly rendering, as the combination of
throttling on swap-interval 1 and glxSwapBuffers() and the frame clock
source having higher priority than the default idle callback sources
meant they would never be invoked.
This was solved in gbz#779039 by introducing a thread that took care of
the vsync waiting, pushing frame completion events to the main thread
meaning the main thread could go idle while waiting to draw the next
frame instead of blocking on glxSwapBuffers().
As of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/363, the
main thread will instead use prediction to estimate when the next frame
should be drawn. A side effect of this is that even without
INTEL_swap_event, we would not block as much, or at all, on
glxSwapBuffers(), as at the time it is called, we have likely already
hit the vblank, or will hit it soon.
After having introduced the swap waiting thread, it was observed that
the Nvidia driver used a considerable amount of CPU waiting for the
vblank, effectively wasting CPU time. The need to call glFinish() was
also problematic as it would wait for the frame to finish, before
continuing. Due to this, remove the threaded swap wait, and rely only on
the frame clock not scheduling frames too early.
Fixes: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781835
Related: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/700
[jadahl: Rewrote commit message]
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/602
This was introduced in:
commit 010d16f647
Author: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue Mar 6 03:21:30 2012 +0000
Adds initial GLES2 integration support
This makes it possible to integrate existing GLES2 code with
applications using Cogl as the rendering api.
That's maybe a reasonable thing for a standalone cogl to want, but our
cogl has only one consumer. So if we want additional rendering out of
our cogl layer, it makes more sense to just add that to cogl rather than
support clutter or mutter or the javascript bindings creating their own
GLES contexts.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/500
This basically reverts commit 54735dec, which tried to avoid the
GLib-defined types in favor the standard C ones. One exception to this
is the bool type, for which the commit introduces a new type CoglBool.
Let's just get rid of this type in favor of having consistency with the
GLib types. Note by the way that neither CoglBool nor gboolean (which
has a size of `int`) are completely compatible with bool (size `char`).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/321
When creating a renderer with a custom winsys (which is always how
mutter uses cogl) make it possible to pass a user data with the winsys.
Still unused.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785381
Because the threaded-swap-wait functionality requires XInitThreads(),
and because it isn't clear that it is a win for all applications,
add a API function to conditionally enable it.
Fix the cogl-crate example not to just have a hard-coded dependency
on libX11.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779039
Move the KMS interaction from cogl into mutter, where most of the other
KMS interaction already takes place. This also removes dead code which
were only excercised when non-mutter callers used the cogl KMS backend.
The cogl KMS API was updated to pass via MetaRendererNative instead of
via the different cogl objects.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768976
