[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] <AWT Dev> [9] Review Request: JDK-8041900 [macosx] Java forces the use of discrete GPU

[Denis Fokin]

Hi Phil,

Thank you for the comments. Actually, the battery life is not the only issue that experience our customers. I am getting crash reports that are reproducible only with discrete cards on MBP. Some users report hangs with discrete cards. All this issues are eliminated by switching on the integrated GPU. I am not sure, that discrete card gives significant performance improvement in jdk implementation. Other applications, like Chrome, use discrete video card only for WebGl or similar tasks.

Thank you,
    Denis 


> 27 мая 2015 г., в 21:09, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> написал(а):
> 
> I suppose that NSOpenGLPFAAllowOfflineRenderers must prevent whatever 'tickling'
> of the discrete GPU we do from automatically making it the active GPU ?
> 
> This seems to merit a source code comment as at face value it seems like an API that allows
> you to use that (other) discrete GPU alongside the active GPU, but so we don't
> need that part, just the side-effect behaviour.
> 
> But do we want this fix in this form ? The integrated GPU is going to perform far less well
> than the discrete GPU. If the issue is battery life, then perhaps it should be tied
> to whether we are running on battery or mains power. And then perhaps you need to figure out
> how to switch GPU on the fly when you go from mains to battery.
> 
> 
> -phil.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 05/27/2015 08:08 AM, Denis Fokin wrote:
>> Hi, Sergey,
>> 
>> Basically, you should close all apps that can switch the vc  including the utility for switching video cards. Make sure in About This Mac -> Displays that the integrated card is enabled. Start an application with the patched version of Java. Check About This Mac -> Displays. Integrated video card should be still active.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 27 мая 2015 г., в 17:30, Sergey Bylokhov <Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com> написал(а):
>>> 
>>> Hi, Denis.
>>> Can you describe the steps on how to test it. On my mac it still change the vc.
>>> 
>>>> On 27.05.15 17:16, Denis Fokin wrote:
>>>> Please review the fix for jdk9
>>>> 
>>>> The fix allows do not force discrete video card usage on MacBook Pro models with two video cards. I have tested the fix on several MPBs.
>>>> 
>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8041900
>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~denis/8041900/webrev.00 <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Edenis/8041900/webrev.00>
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Best regards, Sergey.
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