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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Why care about indirect rendering ?
From:       Dave Airlie <airlied () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-09-11 0:53:28
Message-ID: 21d7e99705091017532956b102 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> Rik Faith put quite a bit of time into a Shared Memory Transport
> alternative to the network layer while at Precision Insight.  The
> results are committed to XFree86 on a branch (look for "smt" in the
> branch name).  As I understand it, results were not an improvement on
> domain sockets, and I think this has been the case for most or all
> attempts at this.
>=20

I suspect in the GLX indirect rendering case (note not X) an SMT might
be of use for large texture type transfers... but for the X case it
doesn't look useful, there  is a paper from Rik here

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/SharedMemoryTransport

Dave.

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