On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 05:38:57PM +0200, Erico Nunes wrote: > virglrenderer recently added virgl_renderer_resource_get_info_ext as a > new api, which gets resource information, including dmabuf modifiers. > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/virgl/virglrenderer/-/merge_requests/1024 > > We have to support dmabuf modifiers since the driver may choose to > allocate buffers with these modifiers to improve performance, and > importing buffers without modifiers information may result in completely > broken rendering. > > Currently trying to use vhost-user-gpu for rendering backend and using > the qemu dbus ui as a ui backend results in a broken framebuffer with > Intel GPUs as the buffer is allocated with a modifier. With this > patchset, that is fixed. > > > It is tricky to support since it requires to keep compatibility at the > same time with: > (1) build against older virglrenderer which do not provide > virgl_renderer_resource_get_info_ext; > (2) runtime between frontend (qemu) and backend (vhost-user-gpu) due to > increased size and a new field in the VHOST_USER_GPU_DMABUF_SCANOUT > message. > > I tried to reach a compromise here by not defining a completely new > message and duplicate VHOST_USER_GPU_DMABUF_SCANOUT but it still feels > like a bit of a hack, so I appreciate feedback if there is a better way > (or naming) to handle it. > > > Erico Nunes (3): > docs: vhost-user-gpu: add protocol changes for dmabuf modifiers > contrib/vhost-user-gpu: add support for sending dmabuf modifiers > vhost-user-gpu: support dmabuf modifiers > > contrib/vhost-user-gpu/vhost-user-gpu.c | 5 ++- > contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- > contrib/vhost-user-gpu/vugpu.h | 9 +++++ > docs/interop/vhost-user-gpu.rst | 26 ++++++++++++- > hw/display/vhost-user-gpu.c | 17 ++++++++- > 5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Series: Reviewed-by: Sergio Lopez <s...@redhat.com>
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