GNOME Mutter Adds Intermediate ShadowFB For Faster Software Rendering

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Mutter Adds Intermediate ShadowFB For Faster Software Rendering

Landing in GNOME's Mutter tree today is a change for GNOME 3.36 improving the effectiveness of running the GNOME Shell desktop with a software renderer like LLVMpipe...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Intermediate-ShadowFB

[Britoid]

So will this mean better performance overall when running GNOME under GNOME Boxes?

cause the performance is pretty bad.

[ciupenhauer]

It’s backported to 3.34 as well.

Wow according to their release schedule this year there will be releases all the way up to GNOME 3.34.5 in march. So I'm guessing a lot of things will be backported, next release is 3.34.2 at the end of this month

[kmare]

144Hz Thank you for posting these MRs. I personally (and I'm sure many others) find them really interesting.

[kmare]

kmare The most interesting MRs are not even in yet. Callbacks just go reduced but they also got MRs for reducing paint areas and relayouts. This work could land before 3.35.2.

Could you please link to these MRs?