I made some progress on GMP this week, getting jobs to run successfully if I enable regions in the GMP but never disable them. I need to do some more work on BO lifetime management if I want to clear disallowed regions back out of the GMP.

I did some more conformance debug, fixing one of the intermittent issues in GLES3 (The same rendering-versus-VS-texturing synchronization bug that broke glmark2 terrain on vc4). GLES3 conformance is now at GLES2 status plus one new set of intermittent issues. Another fix I made (not misusing HW semaphores) unfortunately doesn’t seem to have improved anything.

I had a few performance ideas left over from last week, and built them on Monday (fixed extra flushing due to glClear() after drawing, or the GFHX-1461 workaround, avoid storing buffers that had all their drawing masked out). Performance of simple apps was still astoundingly slow, so I did some more poking around and determined that my V3D HW is actually running at 37 Mhz. My other board runs at 27Mhz. Now I know why my conformance runs have been taking so long! Unfortunately, Broadcom STB doesn’t support clock control from Linux, so I won’t really be able to do performance work on this driver until I can get a SW stack under me that can set the right clock speeds.

Finally, I cleaned up and merged my CLIF dumping code, so V3D can now generate simple traces that can be replayed by the software simulator or on FPGAs to debug lockups. It’s going to take a bit more work to make it so that BO addresses in uniforms work, which is needed for texturing, UBOs, and spilling.