2D Performance Also Impacted By Unity On XMir

[spacetoilet]

now lets put it into an LTS

[kokoko3k]

Which is odd since they accelerated gradients since the 295 series of drivers - except for a few corner cases iirc. Their driver developers are very active, have you spoken to them about this? Perhaps provide them with a cairo-trace so they can analyse the failure path?

Yes i did, and i've spoken them about a cairo performance regression.

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/523281/cairo-performance-regression-/

They may hae been busy, i can't say

Still, a poor ATI 7500 (about 10 years old?) does a better job though OSS drivers, and the same card with nuoveau just flies in that regard.

Wayland will be supported natively by Qt 5.2 and later; not by Qt 4.

How can kwin in 4.11 work with wayland then?

[Teho]

At least wayland will be natively supported by qt4,5/kde and gtk!

Wayland will be supported natively by Qt 5.2 and later; not by Qt 4.

[ickle]

(OT)
Unfortunately proprietary nvidia drivers performs really poor when it comes to draw gradients through cairo.
...At the point that if you scroll a webpage containing native widgets (firefox) and your theme uses gradients for them, you have a very choppy scrolling.
Cairo needs then to be patched to explicitely rely on CPU only for such operations.
Works good with OSS drivers instead.

Which is odd since they accelerated gradients since the 295 series of drivers - except for a few corner cases iirc. Their driver developers are very active, have you spoken to them about this? Perhaps provide them with a cairo-trace so they can analyse the failure path?

[jakubo]

anyone with G945 intel driver should be aware that due to the newly gained features of mesa 9.2 (opengl 2.1) it takes about half a minute to open unity dash (pushing the super key) ... i guess..
and its quite interesting that on the intel driver the SW mouse popinter does not move whereas it does move on nouveau nv50 and radeon r500

[kokoko3k]

Even worse. If we use cairo as a yard stick for measuring acceleration across the different solutions, then cairo-xlib is many times faster (when supported by a good driver i.e. sna or nvidia

(OT)
Unfortunately proprietary nvidia drivers performs really poor when it comes to draw gradients through cairo.
...At the point that if you scroll a webpage containing native widgets (firefox) and your theme uses gradients for them, you have a very choppy scrolling.
Cairo needs then to be patched to explicitely rely on CPU only for such operations.
Works good with OSS drivers instead.

[ickle]

But what's the 2D performance on pure Mir? Faster, same, worse than on X.org?

After all, we're all looking forward to use pure Mir or Wayland as much as possible, with X.org on top of them as little as possible.

Even worse. If we use cairo as a yard stick for measuring acceleration across the different solutions, then cairo-xlib is many times faster (when supported by a good driver i.e. sna or nvidia, and even when supported by bad drivers such as uxa and fglrx) than cairo-gl (with their respective OpenGL drivers). We are back to looking at using the CPU and pushing images around.

Pure client side rendering also has higher memory overheads as what the display server does cache between multiple clients, is now allocated separately in every client.

[kokoko3k]

Those results should be interesting.

I don't think there will be much difference.
At least wayland will be natively supported by qt4,5/kde and gtk!

[M1kkko]

What about X vs XMir vs XWayland benchmarks?

Those results should be interesting.

[mrugiero]

But what's the 2D performance on pure Mir? Faster, same, worse than on X.org?

After all, we're all looking forward to use pure Mir or Wayland as much as possible, with X.org on top of them as little as possible.

Yes, but currently there is nothing where it's easy to perform benchmarks of native Mir (i.e., at least an alpha distro using it directly).
Also, that's what will be used by default in both 13.10 and 14.04, so that comparison is much more interesting in the short term than the native one, from a user's perspective.