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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Implement a virtio GPU transport
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:21:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CCEBEE2.8010404@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CCE9989.2010809@redhat.com>

On 11/01/2010 05:42 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 10/28/2010 03:52 PM, Ian Molton wrote:
>> On 28/10/10 15:24, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>> The caller is intended to block as the host must perform GL rendering
>>>> before allowing the guests process to continue.
>>>
>>> Why is that?  Can't we pipeline the process?
>>
>> No, not really. the guest may call for the scene to be rendered at 
>> any time and we have to wait for that to happen before we can return 
>> the data to it.
>
> Waiting for a response is fine, but can't the guest issue a second 
> batch while waiting for the first?

In a threaded application I think you mean but all RPCs are dispatched 
holding a global lock so even within a threaded application, only a 
single GL call will be executed at a time.

The other scenario would be multiple applications trying to use GL but 
AFAICT, this is not supported in the current model.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-01 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4CAC9CD1.2050601@collabora.co.uk>
     [not found] ` <4CB1D79A.6070805@redhat.com>
2010-10-19 10:31   ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Implement a virtio GPU transport Ian Molton
2010-10-19 10:39     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-27 13:00       ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28  9:27         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-28 11:54           ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28 14:24             ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-28 14:43               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-28 19:50                 ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28 20:14                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-28 21:41                     ` Ian Molton
2010-10-28 19:52               ` Ian Molton
2010-11-01 10:42                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-01 13:21                   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-11-01 15:49                     ` Ian Molton
2010-11-01 15:57                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-03 17:49                         ` Ian Molton
2010-11-01 15:50                   ` Ian Molton
2010-10-29 11:18         ` Rusty Russell
2010-10-29 11:49           ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-10-29 13:05           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-01 11:53             ` Alon Levy
2010-11-01 13:28               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-03 18:03                 ` Ian Molton
2010-11-03 18:17                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-05 18:05                     ` Ian Molton
2010-11-10 17:22                       ` Ian Molton
2010-11-10 17:47                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-12 12:14                           ` Ian Molton
2010-11-12 13:21                             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-04  9:13                   ` Alon Levy
2010-11-05 17:57                     ` Ian Molton
2010-11-03 17:50           ` Ian Molton

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