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Subject:    Re: Review Request 109784: rebase measuring to nano resolution and fix initial padding
From:       Thomas_Lübking <thomas.luebking () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-04-01 13:11:47
Message-ID: 20130401131147.31016.61476 () vidsolbach ! de
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> On April 1, 2013, 9:13 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > do you know how that will behave on systems which do not provide high precision \
> > timers? And how likely it is that a user doesn't have such a timer?

Looked up Qt implementations for Win/Mac/Symbian - they operate on the cpu ticks (and \
for Symbian blow up  µsecs) Afair WinVista+ require HPET HW, so that implementation \
could be specialized and get better precision (i would not trust esp. the Win&Mac \
implementations reg. speedstepâ„¢)

Any tick implementation will get you  µsec precision (at best) up to 1GHz (and mili \
below 1MHz) - so with HPET (since 2005, 10MHz at least) or on even modern ARM \
architectures or modern CPUs and tick based calculation (and not linux, probably not \
even bsd) I would not expect realy nano, but only micro resolution.

Luckily that's absolutely sufficient for our purposes, but QElapsedTimer gets you \
either mili or nano.

tl;dr - it won't get worse.
(Since we cannot "sleep" micro or nanoseconds with the render QTimer, we'll btw. \
always end up between 58.8 and 62.5 FPS)


- Thomas


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On March 30, 2013, 5:40 p.m., Thomas Lübking wrote:
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> (Updated March 30, 2013, 5:40 p.m.)
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> Review request for kwin, Martin Gräßlin and Ralf Jung.
> 
> 
> Description
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> summarized
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> 
> Diffs
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> 
> kwin/composite.h ebaf7e7 
> kwin/composite.cpp ee885dc 
> kwin/options.h f61a66f 
> kwin/options.cpp 6abd3f0 
> kwin/scene.h 5d49c40 
> kwin/scene_opengl.h 409ec3d 
> kwin/scene_opengl.cpp 3343164 
> kwin/scene_xrender.h 4a93940 
> kwin/scene_xrender.cpp ab90815 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/109784/diff/
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> Testing
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> 
> it's math.
> fpsinterval is n*vblankTime so this moves it 1ms past the last assumed tick before \
> the wanted interval spot, so that we don't have to fear to miss it. 
> Assuming we paint every 3rd frame:
> 
> A 1 2 3 4 5 - B 1 2 3 4 5 - C 1 2 3 4 5 - A
> ^ here (C1)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas Lübking
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<blockquote style="margin-left: 1em; border-left: 2px solid #d0d0d0; padding-left: \
10px;">  <p style="margin-top: 0;">On April 1st, 2013, 9:13 a.m. UTC, <b>Martin \
Gräßlin</b> wrote:</p>  <blockquote style="margin-left: 1em; border-left: 2px solid \
#d0d0d0; padding-left: 10px;">  <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: \
-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">do you know how that will behave on systems which do not provide high \
precision timers? And how likely it is that a user doesn&#39;t have such a \
timer?</pre>  </blockquote>







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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: \
-pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Looked up Qt \
implementations for Win/Mac/Symbian - they operate on the cpu ticks (and for Symbian \
blow up  µsecs) Afair WinVista+ require HPET HW, so that implementation could be \
specialized and get better precision (i would not trust esp. the Win&amp;Mac \
implementations reg. speedstepâ„¢)

Any tick implementation will get you  µsec precision (at best) up to 1GHz (and mili \
below 1MHz) - so with HPET (since 2005, 10MHz at least) or on even modern ARM \
architectures or modern CPUs and tick based calculation (and not linux, probably not \
even bsd) I would not expect realy nano, but only micro resolution.

Luckily that&#39;s absolutely sufficient for our purposes, but QElapsedTimer gets you \
either mili or nano.

tl;dr - it won&#39;t get worse.
(Since we cannot &quot;sleep&quot; micro or nanoseconds with the render QTimer, \
we&#39;ll btw. always end up between 58.8 and 62.5 FPS)</pre> <br />










<p>- Thomas</p>


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<div>Review request for kwin, Martin Gräßlin and Ralf Jung.</div>
<div>By Thomas Lübking.</div>


<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated March 30, 2013, 5:40 p.m.</i></p>






<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">it&#39;s math. fpsinterval is n*vblankTime so this moves it 1ms past the \
last assumed tick before the wanted interval spot, so that we don&#39;t have to fear \
to miss it.

Assuming we paint every 3rd frame:

A 1 2 3 4 5 - B 1 2 3 4 5 - C 1 2 3 4 5 - A
                              ^ here (C1)</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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 <li>kwin/composite.h <span style="color: grey">(ebaf7e7)</span></li>

 <li>kwin/composite.cpp <span style="color: grey">(ee885dc)</span></li>

 <li>kwin/options.h <span style="color: grey">(f61a66f)</span></li>

 <li>kwin/options.cpp <span style="color: grey">(6abd3f0)</span></li>

 <li>kwin/scene.h <span style="color: grey">(5d49c40)</span></li>

 <li>kwin/scene_opengl.h <span style="color: grey">(409ec3d)</span></li>

 <li>kwin/scene_opengl.cpp <span style="color: grey">(3343164)</span></li>

 <li>kwin/scene_xrender.h <span style="color: grey">(4a93940)</span></li>

 <li>kwin/scene_xrender.cpp <span style="color: grey">(ab90815)</span></li>

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<p><a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/109784/diff/" style="margin-left: \
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