It looks like GNOME 46 might finally see the dynamic triple buffering support merged for Mutter to enhance the performance particularly for systems with integrated graphics.
Ubuntu and Debian have been carrying the GNOME Mutter dynamic triple buffering patches for years that have been maintained by Canonical’s Daniel van Vugt.
Van Vugt commented this morning in an Ubuntu desktop status update: “Completed a redesign for mutter 46 that should get us closer to merging much sooner than carrying on with unified buffer management…Triple buffering is now out of draft status and ready to merge.”
He added this week in the merge request: "[KMS unify buffer management for all plane types] has been dropped.
FTR., I hope to get [Wayland direct scanout for cropped and scaled surfaces] into a mergable state soon and was worrying that would step on your toes here, but now it looks like it should be pretty compatible."
We’ll see if after 3+ years of work if Mutter dynamic triple buffering is finally ready for upstream in GNOME 46.
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It looks like GNOME 46 might finally see the dynamic triple buffering support merged for Mutter to enhance the performance particularly for systems with integrated graphics.
Ubuntu and Debian have been carrying the GNOME Mutter dynamic triple buffering patches for years that have been maintained by Canonical’s Daniel van Vugt.
Van Vugt commented this morning in an Ubuntu desktop status update: “Completed a redesign for mutter 46 that should get us closer to merging much sooner than carrying on with unified buffer management…Triple buffering is now out of draft status and ready to merge.”
He added this week in the merge request: "[KMS unify buffer management for all plane types] has been dropped.
FTR., I hope to get [Wayland direct scanout for cropped and scaled surfaces] into a mergable state soon and was worrying that would step on your toes here, but now it looks like it should be pretty compatible."
We’ll see if after 3+ years of work if Mutter dynamic triple buffering is finally ready for upstream in GNOME 46.
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