[Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]
** Changed in: qemu
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1618122
Title:
qemu-monitor screendump very slow
Status in QEMU:
Expired
Bug description:
qemu-monitor screendump often using 10-20% cpu usage of one core to
take a small capture.
Most of the CPU usage seems to come from libpixman. There were many
reports of libpixman becoming 8 times slower in newer releases.
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/0c56c6ab68902281094c7aac6305e2321c34c187/ui/console.c#L285
Simple Valgrind Ir report.
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Ir
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9,994,313,959 PROGRAM TOTALS
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Ir file:function
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4,883,603,360
/usr/src/debug/pixman-0.34.0/pixman/pixman-access.c:store_scanline_b8g8r8
[/usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0.34.0]
282,312,800
/usr/src/debug/pixman-0.34.0/pixman/pixman-implementation.c:_pixman_implementation_iter_init
[/usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0.34.0]
267,394,160
/usr/src/debug/pixman-0.34.0/pixman/pixman-sse2.c:sse2_fetch_x8r8g8b8
[/usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0.34.0]
256,761,600
/usr/src/debug/pixman-0.34.0/pixman/pixman-private.h:store_scanline_b8g8r8
254,676,199 ???:0x0000000000011f40 [/usr/lib64/libjemalloc.so.2]
199,990,526 ???:0x0000000000011a10 [/usr/lib64/libjemalloc.so.2]
Calls to there start from.
qemu_pixman_linebuf_fill
pixman_image_composite
????
pixman_image_composite32
general_composite_rect
I tried taking a look on how to fix this, but it seems pixman is
deeply enrooted inside the monitor. I wanted to try to simply take
whats on the display and memcpy it into .ppm format manually creating
the file header, but the image is all broken with colors being off or
its smeared.
For example this is DisplaySurface:
struct DisplaySurface {
pixman_format_code_t format;
pixman_image_t *image;
uint8_t flags;
#ifdef CONFIG_OPENGL
GLenum glformat;
GLenum gltype;
GLuint texture;
#endif
};
It appears graphic_hw_update(con) renders the vram to a pixman_image. Then
ppm_save(filename, surface, errp) goes over it yet again, mutates the bytes in
an expensive way to another pixman_image, and saves that row by row to a ppm.
Using sdl graphics (the default) the drawing starts in
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/7fa124b273acd22a808e742ead78c065ccd9b4c4/hw/display/vga.c#L1466
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