[cairo] Re: Solid pattern caching revisited
Koen Kooi
koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Fri May 4 13:52:17 PDT 2007
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Chris Wilson schreef:
> Behdad Esfahbod (behdad at behdad.org) said:
>> What if we remove the surface from the cache when in use, and reset its
>> attributes when putting it back?
>
> This works surprising well as pattern surfaces were only being shared in
> a couple of the tests i.e. a relatively rare occurrence.
> However, the true problem was not the sharing of the surfaces, but that
> is_compatible() wasn't stringent enough as it allowed the reuse of
> surfaces that were not equivalent to those returned by create_similar().
> Hence I replace that test with an is_similar() check that needs to jump
> through a few more hoops in the backend.
>
> I believe the solid-pattern-cache2 branch is ready for a final review
> and merge.
> [http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/ickle/cairo;a=shortlog;h=solid-pattern-cache2]
>
> Highlights of the branch are that it implements an 'evince-safe' surface
> cache with:-
>
> Cache hit rates: (hit same index + hit in cache) / lookups
> cairo-perf: (42346 + 28480) / 159600 = 44.38%
> gtk-theme-torturer: (3023 + 3502) / 6528 = 99.95%
> gtk-perf: (8270 + 3190) / 21504 = 53.29%
>
> Which translates into a reduction of about 25% of the XRENDER traffic
> during cairo-perf.
Are there plans for a surface-cache for non-X backends?
regards,
Koen
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