This uses actor paint volumes to perform culling during
clutter_actor_paint.
When performing a clipped redraw (because only a few localized actors
changed) then as we traverse the scenegraph painting the actors we can
now ignore actors that don't intersect the clip region. Early testing
shows this can have a big performance benefit; e.g. 100% fps improvement
for test-state with culling enabled and we hope that there are even much
more compelling examples than that in the real world,
Most Clutter applications are 2Dish interfaces and have quite a lot of
actors that get continuously painted when anything is animated. The
dynamic actors are often localized to an area of user focus though so
with culling we can completely avoid painting any of the static actors
outside the current clip region.
Obviously the cost of culling has to be offset against the cost of
painting to determine if it's a win, but our (limited) testing suggests
it should be a win for most applications.
Note: we hope we will be able to also bring another performance bump
from culling with another iteration - hopefully in the 1.6 cycle - to
avoid doing the culling in screen space and instead do it in the stage's
model space. This will hopefully let us minimize the cost of
transforming the actor volumes for culling.
This is a fairly extensive second pass at exposing paint volumes for
actors.
The API has changed to allow clutter_actor_get_paint_volume to fail
since there are times - such as when an actor isn't a descendent of the
stage - when the volume can't be determined. Another example is when
something has connected to the "paint" signal of the actor and we simply
have no way of knowing what might be drawn in that handler.
The API has also be changed to return a const ClutterPaintVolume pointer
(transfer none) so we can avoid having to dynamically allocate the
volumes in the most common/performance critical code paths. Profiling was
showing the slice allocation of volumes taking about 1% of an apps time,
for some fairly basic tests. Most volumes can now simply be allocated on
the stack; for clutter_actor_get_paint_volume we return a pointer to
&priv->paint_volume and if we need a more dynamic allocation there is
now a _clutter_stage_paint_volume_stack_allocate() mechanism which lets
us allocate data which expires at the start of the next frame.
The API has been extended to make it easier to implement
get_paint_volume for containers by using
clutter_actor_get_transformed_paint_volume and
clutter_paint_volume_union. The first allows you to query the paint
volume of a child but transformed into parent actor coordinates. The
second lets you combine volumes together so you can union all the
volumes for a container's children and report that as the container's
own volume.
The representation of paint volumes has been updated to consider that
2D actors are the most common.
The effect apis, clutter-texture and clutter-group have been update
accordingly.
This function should only need to be called in exceptional circumstances
since Cogl can normally determine internally when a flush is necessary.
As an optimization Cogl drawing functions may batch up primitives
internally, so if you are trying to use raw GL outside of Cogl you stand a
better chance of being successful if you ask Cogl to flush any batched
geometry before making your state changes.
cogl_flush() ensures that the underlying driver is issued all the commands
necessary to draw the batched primitives. It provides no guarantees about
when the driver will complete the rendering.
This provides no guarantees about the GL state upon returning and to avoid
confusing Cogl you should aim to restore any changes you make before
resuming use of Cogl.
If you are making state changes with the intention of affecting Cogl drawing
primitives you are 100% on your own since you stand a good chance of
conflicting with Cogl internals. For example clutter-gst which currently
uses direct GL calls to bind ARBfp programs will very likely break when Cogl
starts to use ARBfb programs internally for the material API, but for now it
can use cogl_flush() to at least ensure that the ARBfp program isn't applied
to additional primitives.
This does not provide a robust generalized solution supporting safe use of
raw GL, its use is very much discouraged.
Previously the journal was always flushed at the end of
_cogl_rectangles_with_multitexture_coords, (i.e. the end of any
cogl_rectangle* calls) but now we have broadened the potential for batching
geometry. In ideal circumstances we will only flush once per scene.
In summary the journal works like this:
When you use any of the cogl_rectangle* APIs then nothing is emitted to the
GPU at this point, we just log one or more quads into the journal. A
journal entry consists of the quad coordinates, an associated material
reference, and a modelview matrix. Ideally the journal only gets flushed
once at the end of a scene, but in fact there are things to consider that
may cause unwanted flushing, including:
- modifying materials mid-scene
This is because each quad in the journal has an associated material
reference (i.e. not copy), so if you try and modify a material that is
already referenced in the journal we force a flush first)
NOTE: For now this means you should avoid using cogl_set_source_color()
since that currently uses a single shared material. Later we
should change it to use a pool of materials that is recycled
when the journal is flushed.
- modifying any state that isn't currently logged, such as depth, fog and
backface culling enables.
The first thing that happens when flushing, is to upload all the vertex data
associated with the journal into a single VBO.
We then go through a process of splitting up the journal into batches that
have compatible state so they can be emitted to the GPU together. This is
currently broken up into 3 levels so we can stagger the state changes:
1) we break the journal up according to changes in the number of material layers
associated with logged quads. The number of layers in a material determines
the stride of the associated vertices, so we have to update our vertex
array offsets at this level. (i.e. calling gl{Vertex,Color},Pointer etc)
2) we further split batches up according to material compatability. (e.g.
materials with different textures) We flush material state at this level.
3) Finally we split batches up according to modelview changes. At this level
we update the modelview matrix and actually emit the actual draw command.
This commit is largely about putting the initial design in-place; this will be
followed by other changes that take advantage of the extended batching.
The clutter_context_get_default() function is private, but shared
across Clutter. For this reason, it should be prefixed by '_' so
that the symbol is hidden from the shared object.
* clutter/clutter-actor.c:
(clutter_actor_set_min_width),
(clutter_actor_set_min_height),
(clutter_actor_set_natural_width),
(clutter_actor_set_natural_height): Ignore any override of the
minimum and natural size of the stage on backends that only
support static stages.
* clutter/clutter-stage.c (clutter_stage_allocate): Use the
preferred size of the ClutterStage implementation instead of
the display size.
* clutter/clutter-backend.[ch]: Remove get_display_size() and
clutter_backend_get_display_size().
* clutter/eglnative/clutter-backend-egl.c:
* clutter/fruity/clutter-backend-fruity.c:
* clutter/osx/clutter-backend-osx.c:
* clutter/sdl/clutter-backend-sdl.c:
* clutter/win32/clutter-backend-win32.c:
* clutter/x11/clutter-backend-x11.c: Remove get_display_size()
implementations.
* clutter/clutter-backend.h:
* clutter/clutter-backend.c:
(clutter_backend_get_display_size): Add a function for getting the
display size out of the backend.
* clutter/clutter-stage.c:
(clutter_stage_allocate): When allocating on a backend with a
static stage, we simply ignore the passed box and override it with
the size of the display.
* clutter/eglnative/clutter-backend-egl.c:
(clutter_backend_egl_get_display_size),
(clutter_backend_egl_class_init): Implement get_display_size() by
returning the size of the EGL surface.
* clutter/fruity/clutter-backend-fruity.c:
(clutter_backend_egl_get_display_size),
(clutter_backend_egl_class_init): Ditto as above.
* clutter/x11/clutter-backend-x11.c:
(clutter_backend_x11_get_display_size),
(clutter_backend_x11_class_init): Implement get_display_size() by
returning the DisplayWidth and DisplayHeight of the current
screen.
* clutter/clutter-backend.c:
(_clutter_backend_create_stage): Call _clutter_stage_set_window()
ourselves, thus removing yet another action that backends must
implement and might get wrong; also cuts a backend-agnostic piece
of code duplication.
* clutter/eglnative/clutter-backend-egl.c:
(clutter_backend_egl_create_stage): Update the EGL native backend.
* clutter/eglx/clutter-backend-egl.c:
(clutter_backend_egl_create_stage): Update the EGLX backend.
* clutter/fruity/clutter-backend-fruity.c:
(clutter_backend_egl_create_stage): Update the fruity backend
* clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.c:
(clutter_backend_glx_create_stage): Update the GLX backend.
* clutter/sdl/clutter-backend-sdl.c:
(clutter_backend_sdl_create_stage): Update the SDL backend.
* HACKING.backends: Update the ::create_stage() description.
Rework the stage wrapper/implementation relation: remove
duplicated code and all the bookkeeping from the backends into
ClutterStage whenever possible, to reduce the amount of work a
backend must do (and possibly get wrong). Thanks to Tommi
Komulainen.
* clutter/clutter-main.c:
(clutter_init_with_args), (clutter_init): Realize the default
stage after creation. The default stage is special, because we
use it in the initialization sequence. This removes the burden
from the backends and reduces the things a backend can get
wrong.
* clutter/clutter-stage.c:
(clutter_stage_show): Make sure to realize the implementation if
it hasn't been realized yet.
(clutter_stage_realize): Set the REALIZED flag and call
clutter_stage_ensure_current() if the implementation was
successfully realized.
(clutter_stage_unrealized): Call clutter_stage_ensure_current()
on unrealize.
* clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.c:
(clutter_backend_glx_create_stage): Do not realize the stage anymore
when creating it, and let the normal realization sequence take
place.
(clutter_backend_glx_ensure_context): Trap for X11 errors.
* clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.c:
(clutter_stage_glx_realize): Chain up to the X11 implementation
so that we can set up the window state (title, cursor visibility)
when we actually have a X window. Also, do not call
clutter_stage_ensure_current(), and rely on the wrapper to do
it for us. This means we can drop setting the REALIZED flag on
the wrapper.
(clutter_stage_glx_unrealize): Do not call
clutter_stage_ensure_current() ourselves, and rely on the wrapper
to do it for us.
* clutter/x11/clutter-stage-x11.c:
(set_wm_title), (set_cursor_visible): Move the WM title and
cursor visibility code inside their own functions.
(clutter_stage_x11_realize): Set the window title and whether the
cursor is visible or not after realizing the stage.
(clutter_stage_x11_set_cursor_visible),
(clutter_stage_x11_set_title): Call set_wm_title() and
set_cursor_visible().
(clutter_stage_x11_finalize): Free the title string.
* clutter/x11/clutter-stage-x11.h: Save more of the stage state,
so that we can set it even when the stage hasn't been realized
yet.
* clutter/eglnative/clutter-backend-egl.c:
(clutter_backend_egl_create_stage):
* clutter/eglnative/clutter-stage-egl.c:
(clutter_stage_egl_unrealize),
(clutter_stage_egl_realize): Update the eglnative backend.
* clutter/eglx/clutter-backend-egl.c:
(clutter_backend_egl_ensure_context),
(clutter_backend_egl_create_stage):
* clutter/eglx/clutter-stage-egl.c:
(clutter_stage_egl_unrealize),
(clutter_stage_egl_realize): Update the eglx backend.
* clutter/sdl/clutter-backend-sdl.c:
(clutter_backend_sdl_create_stage):
* clutter/sdl/clutter-stage-sdl.c:
(clutter_stage_sdl_realize): Update the sdl backend.
* clutter/fruity/clutter-backend-fruity.c:
(clutter_backend_fruity_create_stage):
* clutter/sdl/clutter-stage-fruity.c:
(clutter_stage_fruity_realize): Update the fruity backend.
* tests/test-multistage.c (on_button_press): Bail out if
clutter_stage_new() returns NULL.
* HACKING.backends: Update backend writing documentation.
