Headless GPU usage is a pretty normal use-case today. Well, that's why we have separate device nodes for running displays and for rendering/compute.
And quoting from the DRM-UAPI documentation: > With the increased use of offscreen renderers and GPGPU applications, clients > no longer require running compositors or graphics servers to make use of a > GPU. But the DRM API required unprivileged clients to authenticate to a > DRM-Master prior to getting GPU access. To avoid this step and to grant > clients GPU access without authenticating, render nodes were introduced. I also agree with this comment from pnowack upstream: > CPU resources are in any case more precious than GPU resources > (bottleneck-wise). If an unauthorized process trying to use the GPU ends up using swrast, that has a worse impact on the system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2077538 Title: gnome-remote-desktop uses software rendering To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-remote-desktop/+bug/2077538/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
