moar fps in a vm, with this one little trick

5 Oct 2022, 16:00
45m
201 (Opus Hall)

201

Opus Hall

30 S 10th Street, Minneapolis, MN
Talk (full slot, Wineconf and FOSS XR only) Main Track

Speaker

Rob Clark (Google)

Description

virtgpu drm native contexts - (near) native gpu performance in a VM utilizing virglrenderer drm native contexts.

Compared to api level virtualization (aka virgl), native gfx performance (within a few percent or less), and significant CPU overhead reduction (and therefore power savings), can be had with the new virglrenderer drm native context feature. All it takes is a very small amount of code in mesa and virglrenderer. This talk covers the general approach, performance trade-offs in host<->guest protocol design, and why this important for ChromeOS.

GSoC, EVoC or Outreachy No
For which conference do you send the proposal? X.Org Developers Conference 2022
Code of Conduct Yes

Primary author

Rob Clark (Google)

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