Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qxl: make sure primary surface is saved on migration also in compat mode

[Yonit Halperin]

On 02/14/2012 11:24 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>    Hi,
>
> > I can do it, by retrieving the surfaces addresses from the tracked guest
> > commands.
>
> Exactly.
>
> > However, if we already do it, it would be even better if we
> > just dirty only the areas that are actually modified by the update_area
> > calls. The problem is that (1) spice-server updates surfaces also
> > without request from driver.
>
> On worker->stop() for example, which renderes all outstanding commands
> so all state is flushed to the surfaces (and thereby device memory).
> This is done on vm_stop too, so I wouldn't be surprised if most surfaces
> are dirtied anyway at this point.  Getting notifications about
> spice-server touching surfaces doesn't buy us much then.
We also render drawables that are not hidden by other ones, when we lack 
free memory in the driver.
In addition inter-surfaces dependencies are handled in a brute-force 
manner by rendering old drawables (I plan to improve this). But anyway,
as I mentioned it the preceding email, since most of the surfaces are 
destroyed (at least with the current drivers), I prefer not to dirty 
them "live". So I'll make the change you originally suggested.

Regards,
Yonit.

> cheers,
>    Gerd