On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Kai Wasserbäch
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> Dear Alex,
> Alex Deucher wrote on 10.12.2016 22:40:
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Kai Wasserbäch
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Hey,
>>> I've been noticing that GLX_MESA_query_renderer reports less video memory
>>> when I
>>> use amdgpu for my Hawaii PRO GPU, than when I use radeon. Since I'm pretty
>>> happy
>>> with amdgpu (as I do not use HDMI audio) and it's the code, that gets active
>>> improvements, I'd like to stay with it, but having 40 MB of video memory
>>> "vanish" is not nice.
>>> With radeon GLX_MESA_query_renderer reports 4096 MB RAM (as expected, the
>>> R9 290
>>> was sold/advertised with that), while I'm seeing 4056 MB with amdgpu (last
>>> tested kernel: 4.8.13).
>>>
>>> As I'm not sure, whether this is a bug or rather some always reserved memory
>>> area, which gets subtracted before reporting the available memory, I didn't
>>> file
>>> a bug report and rather am writing this e-mail. If it's a bug I'm happy to
>>> file
>>> the report against amdgpu.
>>
>> IIRC, the driver interfaces used to get the information exposed via
>> that extension are slightly different. radeon exposes the total
>> amount of vram while amdgpu reports the total amount of free vram.
>> The actual amount of free vram is probably pretty close.
>
> thanks for the explanation!
>
> But I'd like to point out that some of the automatic configuration tools
> shipped
> with games (and probably other programs) are deciding upon the reported values
> to which quality level they should default. Maybe reporting the theoretical
> VRAM
> might be better (you could always report the actual values through sysfs or
> some
> other channel)?
I think all of the relevant info is available already, we'd just need
to update mesa to make both drivers report something consistent. The
extension isn't clear on whether it should be free memory or total
memory. The extension says:
GLX_RENDERER_VIDEO_MEMORY_MESA 1 Number of megabytes of video
memory available to the renderer
That sort of implies free memory, but I guess most apps probably care
more about the overall memory size.
Alex
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