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Re: [platform-swt-dev] SWT-OpenGL rendering in different thread
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Hi,,
don't get me wrong here, but actually you are describing a display
list ;)
No, seriously, your idea is quite nice: Write some OpenGL wrapper in
java that encodes all commands in a nicely packed byte array and just
hand it to some native component to do the work. The intriguing part
about this solution is that most of the necessary code could actually
be generated and that the actually rendering can be transparently done
either in one thread or in multiple threads by the native component
best suited for the current runtime environment.
Yes, this indeed has it's charm.
But - even though I'm still in a very early proof of concept phase -
I'd say that the necessary work to assemble the OpenGL commands from a
scene model and the actually rendering in the GPU counts much higher
than the JNI overhead; especially when using display lists. (We're
talking about reducing about 30-40 JNI calls to one.)
Anyhow, back to my original question: Are there any pitfalls when
interacting the the GLContext in a different thread than the display
thread?
I kind of answered this for myself: Yes there are. Plentiful.
The little dirty hack I've mentioned in my first mail seems to work
for SWT-Cocoa, but obviously not for SWT-win32 (not tested gtk so far).
The problem seems to be the interaction with the (not thread-safe)
GDI ... <insert here: long triad why mac is some much cooler ;) >
I still have to sort out the details, but in my opinion on needs some
kind of callback in the GLCanvas, like:
FutureTask queueRender(Runnable callback)
whereas the GLCanvas can decide (or be configured to) execute the
callback either in the display thread or a different one (in case of
win32 maybe both: Create a compatible DC and GLContext in render
thread and do the buffer swapping in display thread)
Am 21.10.2009 um 10:03 schrieb Gorkem Ercan:
Coincidentally, we are implementing such a command buffer for our
eSWT port on Qt. The main goal of the buffer is to reduce the number
of thread switches if the drawing is done on a thread other than UI
thread. At this time we are not doing anywork for reducing the JNI
calls but just thread switching. Perhaps our work can be reused on
all the SWT ports.
Also such a command buffer that reduces the JNI calls existed on the
earlier eSWT Symbian S60 port.
--
Gorkem
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Paul Anderson <paul-anderson@xxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
Hi
A few years ago I was looking for a way to render many 2D primitives
quickly, I had profiled SWT and noticed that it naturally crosses
JNI on every draw call and there is a large around this.....
I imagined a batch interface in which primitive draw instructions
and their parameters are placed in an int/float array and passed in
bulk to the native code for rendering .... I'm going to resurrect
that idea shortly to see what happens.
int[] batch = { SWT.DRAW_LINE, 0,0,100,100, SWT.FILL_CIRCLE,
SWT.BLACK, 0,0,200,200 . . . . . . . };
display.render(batch);
OpenGL may well be able to use the same mechanism and it is based on
similar concepts ,one could then render in a different thread, then
just throw the batch(ogl scene) over to the native code on a
designated rendering thread.
Paul Anderson
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From: Junglas Bodo <junglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 10/20/2009 09:55
Subject: [platform-swt-dev] SWT-OpenGL rendering in different thread
Sent by: platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hi there,
at the moment I'm experimenting with the GLCanvas and asked myself why
the access to the OpenGL context is so tightly restricted to the
Display thread.
More precisely: I would like to do all the OpenGL rendering in a
background thread without affecting the rest of the UI at all.
Granted, it's usually a bad idea to mess around with OpenGL in
multiple threads, but I was thinking about some kind of weighted
execution queue that would allow me to render some views with higher
priority than others and of course without blocking any kind of user
interaction.
As a pure experiment I did this:
Extended the GLCanvas in my own project (boldly called this
ExtGLCanvas) and just overrided the checkWidget() method by a weaker
variant that only checks isDisposed. Then I simply handed all
rendering stuff previously done via Display.asyncExecute() to a
SingleThreadPoolExecutor.
At least with SWT OSX-Cocoa this seems to work like a charm.
So my question is: Am I missing an important point here?
Greets
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