Re: [Intel-gfx] [RFC] Glamor : a 2D rendering engine based on OpenGL for xserver

2011-08-18 Thread zhigang gong
Here are some preliminary performance data I got by using cairo performance trace and x11perf on three different machines. We can see on SNB GT1 glamor can get identical performance with UXA, and on Ironlake machine, glamor get identical performance with SNA. But on SNB GT2 machine, glamor's perfo

[Intel-gfx] [RFC] Glamor : a 2D rendering engine based on OpenGL for xserver

2011-08-17 Thread zhigang gong
Hi folks, Glamor project was initiated by Eric at last year which is to implement a new rendering acceleration engine by using OpenGL to handle all the 2D operations. It is somehow very similar with UXA. The major difference is that we use texture to hold pixmap if possible, and then use shaders