[performance] glXSwapIntervalEXT called every frame, which is very slow on Nvidia.

[Sam Spilsbury]

glXSwapIntervalEXT is called every frame, when it only needs to be called once when using buffer swaps (eg turned on).

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

I can't reproduce this anymore. I found that the major thing which boosted performance was not letting the driver pick the refresh rate.

Nevertheless, not calling into OpenGL lots is probably a good thing.

[Alex Baines (abaines)]

I'm experiencing this bug in any OpenGL application which sets its own swap interval to 1, either because it called glXSwapInterval{EXT, SGI} or because sync to vblank is forced on in nvidia-settings (or because the __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK environment variable is set to 1).

It causes the cpu usage of Xorg and compiz to be abnormally high, and the OpenGL application running will be very stuttery.

It is only present when compiz's "sync to vblank" option is also checked, and can be worked-around by commenting out the glXSwapInterval(0) line in the waitForVideoSync function of plugins/opengl/src/screen.cpp

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I tested this and cannot reproduce any performance regression under nvidia with glXSwapInterval(0). I can only confirm a slowdown with glXSwapInterval(1). However enough people seem to agree that even glXSwapInterval(0) is slow for them.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix committed into lp:compiz at revision 3386