Alex Deucher wrote on 10.12.2016 23:03: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Kai Wasserbäch > <[email protected]> wrote: >> [Please CC me on all replies, I'm not subscribed to this list.] >> >> 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: >>>> [Please CC me on all replies, I'm not subscribed to this list.] >>>> >>>> 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
I agree, that the language of the spec isn't explicit in what should be reported. > That sort of implies free memory, but I guess most apps probably care > more about the overall memory size. From what I've seen, that seems the case (no matter through which extension this value is queried). It seems like this is how it's handled on Windows: if you have 4 GB of VRAM, we default to high level textures, if you have 8 GB, we default to ultra, etc. Cheers, Kai
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