Following up on an message from a while ago:
Brian Paul wrote:
> Robert Bragg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Every now and then while working on the Clutter toolkit we end up with
>> glGet{Integer,Float}v in our profiles. Our typical response is to simply
>> cache the offending state so as to avoid querying OpenGL, but it feels
>> like this is papering over the problem.
>> I've attached a patch that instead tries to address the performance
>> problem in Mesa and hoping something like this could be accepted
>> upstream?
>
> Coincidentally, I was looking at this just recently.
>
> It would be a good change to make. Though I think I'd add a new flag to
> the StateVars table entries to indicate whether the state requires
> validation (and what state). Then auto-generate the needed code.
>
> So GL_RED_BITS case would be predicated like this:
>
> case GL_RED_BITS:
> if (ctx->NewState & _NEW_BUFFERS)
> _mesa_update_state(ctx);
> params[0] = ctx->DrawBuffer->Visual.redBits;
> break;
>
> _NEW_BUFFERS would be a new field in the StateVars list.
>
>
> Most state queries don't need validation. The ones that do are the ones
> that you patched plus the "current" attribs (_NEW_CURRENT_ATTRIB).
> Maybe a few others?
>
> Are you interested in coding this up?
I've implemented change this and will be committing it soon.
-Brian
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