Very slow performance when rendering scenes with transparency, probably caused by excessive copying (intel_miptree_map())
Submitted by Steve Holland
Assigned to Intel 3D Bugs Mailing List
Link to original bug (#101592)
Description
I am seeing very poor rendering performance when drawing scenes with transparency.
This is with Mesa 17.1.3 as distributed with Fedora 26 beta (mesa-dri-drivers-17.1.3-2.fc26). Testing on Intel HD Graphics 620, lspci shows it as "Device 5916"
Rendering has slowed by 10-100x and is significantly (10x) slower than pure software rendering (via LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE)
Specifically, I see very high CPU usage during rendering in the intel_miptree_map(), intel_offset_S8(), and intel_miptree_unmap() routines. Via "perf record" and "perf report", the locus of the CPU usage is clear:
91.34% dg_scope_sa i965_dri.so [.] intel_miptree_map 4.53% dg_scope_sa i965_dri.so [.] intel_offset_S8 1.25% dg_scope_sa i965_dri.so [.] intel_miptree_unmap
From typical stack backtraces (such as pasted below) it seems to be spending most of its time mapping (with intel_mipmap_tree.c:intel_miptree_map_s8()) or unmapping a rather large (width=815, height=534) miptree (which translates to the size of the entire FreeGLUT window being rendered into)
Notice that all of this is inside a call to glutBitmapCharacter()... i.e. it appears that every character being drawn causes creation and destruction of a full-window miptree.
... Hence the terrible performance.
Stack trace follows
#0 0x00007f1dfabe4ae1 in intel_miptree_unmap_s8 (slice=<optimized out>,
level=0, map=0x12028d0, mt=0x1202dc0, brw=0x7f1e02fd1040)
at intel_mipmap_tree.c:2728
#1 intel_miptree_unmap (brw=brw@entry=0x7f1e02fd1040, mt=0x1202dc0, level=0,
slice=<optimized out>) at intel_mipmap_tree.c:3101
#2 0x00007f1dfabe23b7 in intel_unmap_renderbuffer (ctx=0x7f1e02fd1040,
rb=0x12023d0) at intel_fbo.c:217
#3 0x00007f1dfa9758de in unmap_attachment (ctx=ctx@entry=0x7f1e02fd1040,
fb=fb@entry=0x1201d30, buffer=buffer@entry=BUFFER_STENCIL)
at swrast/s_renderbuffer.c:609
#4 0x00007f1dfa9760f0 in _swrast_unmap_renderbuffers (ctx=0x7f1e02fd1040)
at swrast/s_renderbuffer.c:689
#5 0x00007f1dfa965318 in swrast_render_finish (ctx=0x7f1e02fd1040)
at swrast/s_context.h:379
#6 _swrast_Bitmap (ctx=ctx@entry=0x7f1e02fd1040, px=426, py=py@entry=263,
width=width@entry=9, height=height@entry=16, unpack=0x7f1e02fecf30,
bitmap=0x7f1e012e4ac1 "") at swrast/s_bitmap.c:135
#7 0x00007f1dfa9a686d in _mesa_meta_Bitmap (ctx=ctx@entry=0x7f1e02fd1040,
x=x@entry=426, y=y@entry=263, width=width@entry=9, height=height@entry=16,
unpack=unpack@entry=0x7f1e02fecf30, bitmap1=0x7f1e012e4ac1 "")
at drivers/common/meta.c:2355
#8 0x00007f1dfabe7fac in intelBitmap (ctx=<optimized out>, x=426, y=263,
width=<optimized out>, height=16, unpack=0x7f1e02fecf30,
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
pixels=0x7f1e012e4ac1 "") at intel_pixel_bitmap.c:358
#9 0x00007f1dfa820b5f in _mesa_Bitmap (width=9, height=16,
xorig=<optimized out>, yorig=<optimized out>, xmove=<optimized out>,
ymove=<optimized out>, bitmap=0x7f1e012e4ac1 "") at main/drawpix.c:347
#10 0x00007f1e012d149c in glutBitmapCharacter () from /lib64/libglut.so.3
#11 0x00000000004111df in DrawString (String=0x1202620 "GOWJOT")
at scope_draw.c:79
#12 0x0000000000418260 in DrawWaveformImage (c=0xecbf40, pixelsperdiv=66,
usex=2, usey=3, usewidth=792, useheight=528, centerline=267)
at scope_drawwfm.c:985
#13 0x0000000000418f5e in DrawWaveform (c=0xecbf40, pixelsperdiv=66, usex=2,
usey=3, usewidth=792, useheight=528, centerline=267, isSelected=1)
at scope_drawwfm.c:1161
#14 0x000000000040df0f in ScopeDisplayFunc () at scope_callbacks.c:1361
#15 0x00007f1e012cd3c1 in fghRedrawWindow () from /lib64/libglut.so.3
#16 0x00007f1e012cd84c in fghcbProcessWork () from /lib64/libglut.so.3
#17 0x00007f1e012ceaa9 in fgEnumSubWindows () from /lib64/libglut.so.3
#18 0x00007f1e012ce9b9 in fgEnumWindows () from /lib64/libglut.so.3
#19 0x00007f1e012cd931 in glutMainLoopEvent () from /lib64/libglut.so.3
#20 0x00007f1e012cd9d4 in glutMainLoop () from /lib64/libglut.so.3
#21 0x00000000004085f8 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7ffcf2509128) at scope.c:633Version: 17.1