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authorNoralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>2022-11-30 20:26:54 +0100
committerNoralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>2022-12-06 16:38:45 +0100
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drm/gud: Enable synchronous flushing by default
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> Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221122-gud-shadow-plane-v2-6-435037990a83@tronnes.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/gud')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c12
1 files 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.