Hello, Richard. > Where did you instrument to measure which frames were actually rendered? Actually, I've made a bit of hacking to get this and my solution is not cross-platform.
On Mac each time the [CALayer drawInGLContext] is called we are rendering a frame to the screen. And this is reliable - if we've exited this method the frame must be on the screen. So I've added a counter into this method which calculates the average number of method calls per second and logs it. In production this counter was removed. Of course external tools could be used, like OpenGL profiler, but I suppose that's not what you want. Also, on Mac we have a flag in native which represents if the frame was delivered or not. So, using that flag, it is quite easy to add a logger which would warn you that a frame was dropped. Nothing could be done in Java for this, because we have a complex processing in native code and frame drops happen there. I have no idea how it could be done on other platforms, because I am familiar with this area only on the Mac. With best regards. Petr. On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Richard Bair <richard.b...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi Petr, > > We are in a separate thread discussing "jitter" where being able to measure > dropped frames is crucial. We have the PulseLogger class which keeps track of > this kind of information (at least, it measures the amount of time spent in a > particular pulse). There is a message that sometimes displays about dropping > a frame, but I don't know if it captures the same cases as what you have > captured here. Where did you instrument to measure which frames were actually > rendered? > > I need a reliable mechanism for measuring jitter. We're not running full > speed, so if I'm handling frames at less than 16ms per frame, then I should > never see any jitter, unless we have a loss of synchronization between our > pulse timer and the display. How can I measure this reliably? Right now we > have to just stare at our monitors and see if something looks suspicious. I'd > rather have a fool-proof method of determining whether we're hitting each > frame right on target. > > Any ideas? > > Richard > > On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Petr Pchelko <petr.pche...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> Hello, Richard. >> >> These changes fix the problem with dropping frames on Mac because of locking >> between the render thread and UI thread. >> >> I have made some measurements with Controls benchmark and GUIMark2. The >> numbers without braces is the FPS rendered by Prism and the braced numbers >> represent how many frames we are actually rendering on the screen. >> >> Test Fix No Fix >> bitmap-1000 76.1 (76.0) 75.3 (44.1) >> bitmap-3000 38.3 (38.1) 36.9 (31.2) >> bitmap-5000 23.4 (23.2) 22.6 (18.4) >> vector 31.6 (31.3) 31.8 (29.0) >> CheckBox 79 (79) 67 (47) >> >> As you could see, with the fix we almost never drop frames, all of them are >> actually delivered to the screen. Prism performance is improved in some >> cases too. These are not all the results, just examples to feel the >> difference. >> >> With best regards. Petr. >> >> On Jul 24, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Richard Bair <richard.b...@oracle.com> wrote: >> >>> The name of the issue is pretty ho-hum, but actually this was a huge amount >>> of work to get finished. Petr, Artem, or Steve, can you give us a run-down >>> of the performance impact of this change on Mac? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Richard >>> >>> On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:32 AM, hang...@oracle.com wrote: >>> >>>> Changeset: dd30604ab7d0 >>>> Author: Petr Pchelko <petr.pche...@oracle.com> >>>> Date: 2013-07-24 11:24 +0400 >>>> URL: >>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8/graphics/rt/rev/dd30604ab7d0 >>>> >>>> RT-26702 Poor DisplacementMap effect performance on Mac >>>> Reviewed-by: anthony, art, snorthov >>>> >>>> ! >>>> modules/graphics/src/main/native-glass/mac/GlassEmbeddedWindow+Overrides.m >>>> ! modules/graphics/src/main/native-glass/mac/GlassFrameBufferObject.h >>>> ! modules/graphics/src/main/native-glass/mac/GlassFrameBufferObject.m >>>> ! modules/graphics/src/main/native-glass/mac/GlassLayer3D.h >>>> ! modules/graphics/src/main/native-glass/mac/GlassLayer3D.m >>>> ! modules/graphics/src/main/native-glass/mac/GlassOffscreen.h >>>> ! modules/graphics/src/main/native-glass/mac/GlassOffscreen.m >>>> ! modules/graphics/src/main/native-glass/mac/GlassView3D.m >>>> >>> >> >
