Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:20:32 +1000 | From | "Dave Airlie" <> | Subject | Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM) |
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2008, Keith Packard wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:11 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> > X libraries provide the event loop so that isn't really as complex as it >> > seems. >> >> Uh, no, X doesn't. Gtk+ and Qt provide event loops that applications may >> use, but still many choose to roll their own. > > Ok, how many need support for GEM? How many of them would change their > event loop, if they can get better performance? >
GEM is under OpenGL libs so they don't request support for GEM. However if the underlying OpenGL implemenation suddenly starts doing something with a lot of fds it could potentially confuse the crap out of these exisiting applications.
Dave.
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