intel drivers don;'t like it for some odd reason - i'm trying to track
it down but i can't sanely try middlegrounds right now (eg dont
dlopen/dlsym but actually directly assign symbols etc.), so back out
and let's figure this out before it goes back in :(
SVN revision: 66308
addition to evas gl backend.
Working on different mobile devices, we've noticed that the cost of context
switch (MakeCurrent) in GL can be very expensive depending on the driver
implementation. To minimize the poorly written driver's context switch
overhead, I've implemented a state tracking layer on top of the driver
implemented GL.
Essentially, this layer wraps all the GL/Glue(GLX/EGL) APIs and manages its own
state changes. Internally, only one real GL context is created and logical
contexts are created every time a user requests context creation. The logical
contexts keep track of its states and sets only the necessary states
(the ones that are different than the current ones)
when there is a MakeCurrent request. The real MakeCurrent gets called when
there is a Surface/Window change request.
The GL library is dlopened and all the APIs are dlsym'ed and wrapped
accordingly. All the GL functions are in evas_gl_core.{h,c}.
Here's a very simply flow of the code.
- all the APIs are exported as function pointers (*glsym_glBegin),
(*glsm_eglCreatContext), and etc.
- all the native GL/Glue(GLX/EGL) APIs are dlsym'ed as _sym_glBegin,
_sym_eglCreateContext, and etc.
- all the fastpath APIs are implmemnted as fpgl_glBegin,
fpgl_eglCreateContext, and etc.
- if faspath is seletected, the exported APIs are set accordingly
ie. glsym_glBegin = fpgl_glBegin;
- default mode is the regular gl symbols are directly set.
ie. glsym_glBegin = _sym_glBegin;
I have an Environment variable where you can set it to three different Modes
EVAS_GL_FASTPATH = 0 // Default mode. Regular GL symbols are directly loaded
EVAS_GL_FASTPATH = 1 // Fastpath mode. Takes the path described above.
EVAS_GL_FASTPATH = 2 // Wrapped mode. All the regular GL functions are
wrapped once. This can be used for various
purposes
Since all the GL symbols are now loaded in this library, I took out all
the gl symbol loading parts in the evas gl backend as you'll see in the patch.
The changes to the engine and the backend itself is pretty minor.
There are still some known issues to hammer out but I thought we're at a good
place for an initial version so that my source doesn't diverge too much.
Known Issues and To Do's
* Current GL Fastpath version doesn't support multiple threads. Instead of
having one global real context, I would need to do it for each thread. I'll
get on this soon.
* Issues running Evas GL on certain conditions. When running the elementary
test (with gl engine), if you run ELMGLview test that runs in ON_DEMAND mode,
everything works fine. BUT, when you run the ELMGLView test in ALWAYS
mode, the subsequent elm tests shows blank screen. When you destroy the
GLView window, everything else comes on fine.
* Resource protection code. This actually applies to Evas GL code in general
as well. Since all the resources are shared among all the contexts that get
created, I would like to eventually have a resource protecting mechanism that
prevents access to resources outside of its context unless specifically
specified.
I'm attaching three files
- evas_gl_core.h, evas_gl_core.c, fastpath.patch
To get the code running...
- copy evas_gl_core.{c,h} to src/modules/engine/gl_common/
- apply the fastpath.patch
- compile/install evas
- to run with fastpath GL (ie. % EVAS_GL_FASTPATH=1 ./evasgl_sample1)
SVN revision: 65891
Subject: [E-devel] [Patch] Evas gl shader use binary shader
I make patch related with evas gl binary shader.
The concept of binary shader is compile shader only once.
Some people want to use binary shader because of performance issue.
In current evas gl engine, every application have to compile shader each
time.
But I modify code , so only first running application need compile shader.
Other application use already compiled shader(binary shader)
The binary shader is made under HOME/.evas/gl_common_shaders directory.
Binary shader is created according to GL vendor,GL renderer, GL version and
Module_arch.
The basic flow is
1. First running application which use gl engine check binary shader
directory, but it can't find binary shader.
2. After compiling shader, It saves compiled shaders..
3. Other application checks shader directory, it can use binary
shaders.
In mobile target, using binary shader, I can save 150ms. (that time, there
is 11 shaders).
If there is more shaders and more applications, this flow maybe save more
total time.
(the above is now in, changelog coming, with change to using ~/.cache,
some formatting fixes, make ity do the desktop gl one right with the
retrievable hint parameter ont he program etc. - doesn't break desktop
gl at least. yay. a,so fixes to mke it compile at all).
SVN revision: 59167
More work, proudly supported by Samsung. Filters!
So now you can apply a whole host of cheesy visual effects to objects at
runtime. This is the first commit, there are a couple of more to come as I
tweak the filters, and fix blur with GL[1].
Please direct bugs to me nash@nash.id.au.
[1] You'd think shaders would be good at this.. but no, generic blur and GL
are like trying to get an apple product to work with Linux.
SVN revision: 58726
This seems to have got lost in my big messup before. This pushes enough of
mask/arbitrary clip to be somewhat useful. I need to push a little more soon
for it to be 100% happy, but this is useful level.
SVN revision: 58373
engine on shutdown. was freeing the wring kind of thing in the first
place.. and even then it should be more robust, so fix gl texture
robustness and this bug. can cause on-exit crashes if not fixed.
SVN revision: 56068
* log domains in lower-case only please. let's make it a standard so
we don't have to look at the code everytime to figure out the name...
* logs do NOT require trailing newline (\n), it's automatic!
* do NOT add newline inside log messages!
* add gl_common logging.
NOTE: I tried to compile all modules, but there are clear broken
modules such as cairo and qtopia. Other modules like gl_sdl are
broken as they were not updated to new gl_common api (resize
method AFAIR).
SVN revision: 53174
gl state bug/assumption. reset state when moving from 1 surface target
to another and then we are all happy. also fix lip geometry issue in
gl when rendering to non-default surf - related.
SVN revision: 52933
There is no meaning in negative values for image loading, marking as
dirty or size, so image internals (cache, entry) were changed to
unsigned, reducing possible errors, particularly with overflow.
engines were converted to the new way, but any 3rd party modules will
still work as they should be using values >= 0 only anyway.
please review.
new cases introduced by "comparison between signed and unsigned" were
fixed in the modules that used cache_entry or Image_Entry dimensions.
SVN revision: 52428
Carsten Haitzler
Youness Alaoui
ChunEon Park
Sung Park
Cedric BAIL
Vincent Torri
Jiyoun Park
Brett Nash
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri