linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-gfx] [BUG, bisect] drm/i915: mouse pointer lags and overshoots

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:43:34 +0000
From:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:	Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@...el.com>
Cc:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
	Ville Syrjälä 
	<ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@...il.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	Ander Conselvan de Oliveira <conselvan2@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [BUG, bisect] drm/i915: mouse pointer lags and
 overshoots

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 08:40:24AM -0800, Matt Roper wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:04:04AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:51:43AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > There's also an issue in (most) X drivers which exaberates this
> > > issues: When changing the cursor buffer the X cursor code does a a)
> > > disable cursor b) update cursor image c) enable cursor cycle.
> > 
> > Notably not -intel on which the bug has been observed. And more
> > importantly, the slow downs don't seem to correlate with cursor change,
> > just cursor movement.
> > -Chris
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> 
> It seems that the simple fix for this case (movement only) is to just
> skip the prepare_fb/cleanup_fb calls (and the associated vblank wait) in
> the transitional plane helper when newfb == oldfb.  I just posted a
> small patch that makes that change (and solves the cursor lag for me).
> 
> This won't solve the case if userspace uses a different framebuffer for
> each update (while trying to update faster than the refresh rate).  Is
> there any existing userspace that behaves this way that we can test
> with?

-modesetting and say moving the cursor in/out of an xterm very fast. or
similarly with

diff --git a/src/sna/sna_display.c b/src/sna/sna_display.c
index 5b45618..3873893 100644
--- a/src/sna/sna_display.c
+++ b/src/sna/sna_display.c
@@ -5182,7 +5182,6 @@ sna_cursors_init(ScreenPtr screen, struct sna *sna)
        cursor_info->MaxWidth = sna->cursor.max_size;
        cursor_info->MaxHeight = sna->cursor.max_size;
        cursor_info->Flags = (HARDWARE_CURSOR_TRUECOLOR_AT_8BPP |
-                             HARDWARE_CURSOR_UPDATE_UNHIDDEN |
                              HARDWARE_CURSOR_ARGB);
 
        cursor_info->RealizeCursor = sna_realize_cursor;


-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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