QSG_RENDER_LOOP woes

[Martin Gräßlin]

Am 2014-05-09 17:00, schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> On Friday, May 09, 2014 16:39:03 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>> On Friday 09 May 2014 16:29:32 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>> > On Friday, May 09, 2014 16:03:31 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>> > > On Friday 09 May 2014 15:56:53 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Please note that Qt itself switched it off for all of Mesa. The change
>> > > now
>> > > was  more to only have one possible way of usage and preventing us
>> > > hunting
>> > > down non-reproducable bugs.
>> > >
>> > > The crashes we see with threaded render loop cannot be fixed or worked
>> > > around  if I understand the Qt commit disabling it for all of Mesa
>> > > correctly. Have a look at the plasma-devel archives, I sent a FYI mail
>> > > some
>> > > time back.
>> >
>> > I remember that one. That email doesn't say much, except for your "basic
>> > works for me" in kwin. I didn't see any problems with kwin, only with
>> > plasma-shell, and I only changed it for plasma-shell in my tests: that
>> > made
>> > a difference (on Intel).
>> 
>> no I think I meant another mail, try
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.plasma/30179
> 
> That as well. Seems to work fine for kwin, seems to cause pain for 
> Plasma.
> Meh.

well then the issues need to be fixed. From the commit message in Qt I 
don't see any chance to get rid of the crashers.

Cheers
Martin