[vlc-devel] [PATCH] nVidia affinity

[David R Robison]

OK, let me try and incorporate all these comments and I'll re-post the 
patch. Thanks for your help. David

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On 8/29/2013 7:49 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On 29 Aug, David R Robison wrote :
>> The reason for specifying nVidia each time is because these are nVidia
>> specific OpenGL extensions. There are also extensions for other card
> There are other extensions too.
> For ATI (until they die)
> http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/AMD/wgl_gpu_association.txt
> Intel is hopeless for now.
>
>> explanation. Any thoughts on how you want to handle this?
> Make it generic. It will only work with cards who have the NV extensions
> for now. Then, for people with the ATI extensions, when it gets
> implemented.
> People with hybrid setup can modify their code themselves.
>
>> To get the OpenGL function pointers you have to have an active OpenGL
>> context. However, you have to call the affinity routines outside an
>> OpenGL context. So I create a "dummy" context and fetch the function
>> pointers and then throw away the dummy context. I was hoping to cache
>> these function pointer so I did not have to fetch them each time I
>> needed them by creating another OpenGL context. They are used in the
>> open and the close functions. I could either 1) fetch them each time
>> they are needed or 2) attach them to some structure like vd->sys. Which
>> would you prefer.
> 2)
>
>> For the debug messages, I wanted some way to positively tell the user if
>> the GPU selection was successful or failed because the nVidia affinity
>> extensions did not exist. Without this there is no real way to know if
>> the selection worked. However I set them to debug so they would normally
>> be silent. Also, they would only be displayed if the user actually
>> selected a GPU affinity. But I can remove them if you wish.
> Yes, but the messages should be shown only if the affinity option is not
> the default one (aka auto).
>



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