Bug 112351 - Wayland Weston & Sway - vsync stutters in mpv on Intel graphics
Summary: Wayland Weston & Sway - vsync stutters in mpv on Intel graphics
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: DRI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DRM/Intel (show other bugs)
Version: DRI git
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: not set not set
Assignee: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list
QA Contact: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list
URL:
Whiteboard: Triaged
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Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-11-20 12:38 UTC by tempel.julian
Modified: 2019-11-29 19:51 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
i915 platform: GLK
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Attachments
dmesg log of the test system (69.09 KB, text/x-log)
2019-11-20 12:38 UTC, tempel.julian
no flags Details
dmesg debug log (4.02 MB, text/plain)
2019-11-22 18:48 UTC, tempel.julian
no flags Details

Description tempel.julian 2019-11-20 12:38:38 UTC
Created attachment 146003 [details]
dmesg log of the test system

Originally reported here, but posting here in case it might be a kernel issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/issues/2048

The issue: Stutter free video playback is not possible on Gemini Lake with Wayland compositors.

To reproduce, run mpv 0.30 via
"mpv --no-config --video-sync=display-resample --hwdec=vaapi http://www.oc-burner.de/ftp/Videos/juddertest/juddertest_60.mp4" 

on a ~60Hz display in a Weston or Sway Wayland session (mpv automatically uses native Wayland windowing, no xwayland involved). There is stutter each few seconds, thus mpv's statistics recognize vsync jitter spikes and in the wake mistimed or delayed frames (either watch mpv's terminal output or enable LUA stats via Shift + i).

There is no stutter with xf86-video-intel DDX on Xserver (also not in fullscreen with pageflipping triggered). There is also no stutter with AMD GPU on Wayland, so the root of the issue should not lie in mpv.
modesetting DDX on Xserver shows a very similar (if not exactly the same?) issue as Wayland with Intel graphics, if that's important. Though there probably is xf86-video-intel for a good reason, so perhaps the Wayland situation is more deserving of attention.

Issue also ocurs with --hwdec=vaapi-copy, which uses the same windowing context as software decoding.

Tested on
Arch Linux / Manjaro 5.3.8
xorg 1.20.5-4 from Arch/Manjaro repo
Weston 7.0.0
recent sway-git/wlroots-git which supports correct vsync presentation feedback

Attaching a dmesg log of the test system.
Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2019-11-20 12:49:05 UTC
We need continuous monitoring of frequency, GPU pipelines, and display piplines to correlate the system activity with presentation jitter. We can the former with perf, but we could do with overlaying/interspersing the jitter warnings from mpv.

For bonus points, RT graphs in an overlay.
Comment 2 tempel.julian 2019-11-20 13:00:44 UTC
I'd gladly provide any debug output, but you would need to tell me what exactly to do.
Comment 3 Lakshmi 2019-11-21 11:28:50 UTC
Reporter, Can you reproduce this issue using drm-tip (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-tip) with kernel parameters drm.debug=0x1e log_buf_len=4M. If the problem persists attach the full dmesg from boot.
Comment 4 tempel.julian 2019-11-21 11:35:24 UTC
Apart from DRM commits, this kernel branch should be safe to use? The device's filesystem is encrypted and I'd rather not like to experience nasty surprises. :)
If that's not to be expected, I'll try it.
Comment 5 Chris Wilson 2019-11-21 12:01:57 UTC
(In reply to tempel.julian from comment #4)
> Apart from DRM commits, this kernel branch should be safe to use?

Fairly safe. Up to linus as of v5.4-rc8, 
https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/combined-alt.html?
is reasonably happy right now.

Fwiw, I don't think we have the means to capture the right debug data for transient issues like this. I keep meaning to spending some time on the tooling so we can, it's just that "minor" issues like this get overlooked when trying to put out fires.
Comment 6 tempel.julian 2019-11-22 18:48:53 UTC
Created attachment 146011 [details]
dmesg debug log
Comment 7 tempel.julian 2019-11-22 18:50:12 UTC
I've attached a dmesg debug log which was written by the latest drm-tip kernel after triggering the issue.
Comment 8 Martin Peres 2019-11-29 19:51:07 UTC
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