Re: [RFC] drm/atomic: Abuse legacy cursor update flag for legacy gamma update too

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Hey,

Op 13-02-18 om 10:16 schreef Chris Wilson:
> Quoting Maarten Lankhorst (2018-02-13 09:12:01)
>> Programs like redshift set the legacy gamma for X.org every 5 seconds.
>> Because atomic commits wait for vblank completion, we get a frame drop
>> every 5 seconds because of the legacy gamma update.
>>
>> Work around this by setting the legacy_cursor_update flag, to force
>> legacy gamma updates not to be synced against vblank.
>>
>> Reported-by: Tholin #intel-gfx
>> Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reminiscing: Remember the time we had all those vblank workers patches,
> one of which was to do async gamma updates (apply the last one on the
> vblank). Motivated by gnome-shell and the ilk doing a gamma animation
> for fade-out on logout (which I guess they gave up on since it happened
> to be so slow as to extend logout ;).

That special case could be handled by userspace with atomic commits, I don't
think it's worth optimizing it further..

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