Bug 42035

Summary: no way to turn off vline wait at runtime
Product: xorg Reporter: Michal Suchanek <hramrach>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: ansla80
Version: 7.6 (2010.12)   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 28771, 34401    

Description Michal Suchanek 2011-10-20 01:57:25 UTC
According to comments in bug 28771 a the xorg ddx is hardcoded to wait for vsync and patch is provided to hardcode it not to wait.

This is unacceptable. This should be runtime configurable, preferably per-application like dri.
Comment 1 Michel Dänzer 2011-10-20 02:38:29 UTC
> According to comments in bug 28771 a the xorg ddx is hardcoded to wait for
> vsync

That's not true anymore, the vline waits (not vsync, that can be controlled via driconf) can be disabled with Option "SwapbuffersWait" "off".

> This should be runtime configurable, preferably per-application like dri.

That would require some xserver dri2 changes first, to allow the driver to tell the different cases apart. There's been some discussion about this on the xorg-devel list, started by Chris Wilson.
Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:09:33 UTC
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.

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