Mesa's Vulkan WSI/Wayland Code Adds "IMMEDIATE" Present Mode Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa's Vulkan WSI/Wayland Code Adds "IMMEDIATE" Present Mode Support

Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code for Wayland has added the "IMMEDIATE" present mode option that uses Wayland's tearing-control unstable extension to allow for images to be presented immediately but at the risk of visible screen tearing...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-VLK-WSI-Wayland-IMMEDIATE

[ridge]

Ah, so that's what was missing. Was almost pulling my hair out wondering why I couldn't get vsync to disable in (X)Wayland
Thanks for the report, Michael

[Brisse]

Ah, so that's what was missing. Was almost pulling my hair out wondering why I couldn't get vsync to disable in (X)Wayland
Thanks for the report, Michael

Still need support in compositors as well. Don't know about other DE's but as a GNOME-user I'm pretty sure mutter lacks implementation of this feature.

[Kjell]

Wayland's vblank update rate causes serious stuttering on my end with every wlroots based compositor yet nobody talks about it. Sway without direct scanout is the only compositor which properly updates vblank for me

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7370

[ridge]

Still need support in compositors as well.

That it does. KDE Plasma has had support for several months now, Mutter fellows are working on it too, but they want VRR in place first. Source: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2517

[DebianLinuxero]

What's WSI.

GLX for Wayland?

[Gusar]

What's WSI.

GLX for Wayland?

Kinda. It stands for "window system integration". So there's X11 WSI, Wayland WSI, Windows WSI, etc...

[Quackdoc]

Im just happy that things that will expect intermediate may stop simply failing