GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland

Merged on Thursday to GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 Wayland protocol that is used to handle the global migration to explicit synchronization...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Linux-DRM-Sync-Obj-v1

[mdedetrich]

So happy that is finally starting to land for the betterment of everyone, regardless of who they are

[nadir]

Anybody knows wlroots' status on this one?

[henrik]

Anybody knows wlroots' status on this one?

I think it is these two:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/4260

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/4262

So, in progress for now.

[elbar]

Some heavy weight applications doing a huge amount of work seems to load their stuff at Update(Delta time) which somehow seems to broke GNOME and their ideal world of responsiveness and realtime Linux and if this wonderful settings is turned off, something weird freeze will occur . Why should application window update at each 5 seconds timeout when nothing happens . Thats 5seconds * 144(60,...) frames = some nice computation and GNOME seems alone

[avis]

So happy that is finally starting to land for the betterment of everyone, regardless of who they are

Everyone? Linux is just 2% of desktop users. Wayland is less than that. And then how many Wayland compositors are getting it? And how soon?

I'm not excited about anything Wayland related unless the huge fragmentation issue is solved.

[treba]

Everyone? Linux is just 2% of desktop users. Wayland is less than that. And then how many Wayland compositors are getting it? And how soon?

I'm not excited about anything Wayland related unless the huge fragmentation issue is solved.

ChromeOS is also Wayland these days, there's the Steam Deck - and there are lots of embedded users, including in car entertainment systems etc.

[Dovi]

Some heavy weight applications doing a huge amount of work seems to load their stuff at Update(Delta time) which somehow seems to broke GNOME and their ideal world of responsiveness and realtime Linux and if this wonderful settings is turned off, something weird freeze will occur . Why should application window update at each 5 seconds timeout when nothing happens . Thats 5seconds * 144(60,...) frames = some nice computation and GNOME seems alone

What are you even talking about lol

[Volta]

Everyone? Linux is just 2% of desktop users. Wayland is less than that. And then how many Wayland compositors are getting it? And how soon?

I'm not excited about anything Wayland related unless the huge fragmentation issue is solved.

Better late than never. Linux market share is maybe even 3% or more and it will keep growing. I'd also love to have common implementation between KDE and Gnome.

[piotrj3]

after 12-13 years the very basic functionality of modern graphics infrastructure got merged. I hope I won't have to wait long for explicit sync for present/xwayland that nvidia is working on in open source stuff.