macos: use CALayer and IOSurface for rendering
This provides a major shift in how we draw both when accelerated OpenGL
as well as software rendering with Cairo. In short, it uses tiles of Core
Animation's CALayer to display contents from an OpenGL or Cairo rendering
so that the window can provide partial damage updates. Partial damage is
not generally available when using OpenGL as the whole buffer is flipped
even if you only submitted a small change using a scissor rect.
Thankfully, this speeds up Cairo rendering a bit too by using IOSurface to
upload contents to the display server. We use the tiling system we do for
OpenGL which reduces overall complexity and differences between them.
A New Buffer
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GdkMacosBuffer is a wrapper around an IOSurfaceRef. The term buffer was
used because 1) surface is already used and 2) it loosely maps to a
front/back buffer semantic.
However, it appears that IOSurfaceRef contents are being retained in
some fashion (likely in the compositor result) so we can update the same
IOSurfaceRef without flipping as long as we're fast. This appears to be
what Chromium does as well, but Firefox uses two IOSurfaceRef and flips
between them. We would like to avoid two surfaces because it doubles the
GPU VRAM requirements of the application.
Changes to Windows
==================
Previously, the NSWindow would dynamically change between different
types of NSView based on the renderer being used. This is no longer
necessary as we just have a single NSView type, GdkMacosView, which
inherits from GdkMacosBaseView just to keep the tedius stuff separate
from the machinery of GdkMacosView. We can merge those someday if we
are okay with that.
Changes to Views
================
GdkMacosCairoView, GdkMacosCairoSubView, GdkMacosGLView have all been
removed and replaced with GdkMacosView. This new view has a single
CALayer (GdkMacosLayer) attached to it which itself has sublayers.
The contents of the CALayer is populated with an IOSurfaceRef which
we allocated with the GdkMacosSurface. The surface is replaced when
the NSWindow resizes.
Changes to Layers
=================
We now have a dedicated GdkMacosLayer which contains sublayers of
GdkMacosTile. The tile has a maximum size of 128x128 pixels in device
units.
The GdkMacosTile is partitioned by splitting both the transparent
region (window bounds minus opaque area) and then by splitting the
opaque area.
A tile has either translucent contents (and therefore is not opaque) or
has opaque contents (and therefore is opaque). An opaque tile never
contains transparent contents. As such, the opaque tiles contain a black
background so that Core Animation will consider the tile's bounds as
opaque. This can be verified with "Quartz Debug -> Show opaque regions".
Changes to Cairo
================
GTK 4 cannot currently use cairo-quartz because of how CSS borders are
rendered. It simply causes errors in the cairo_quartz_surface_t backend.
Since we are restricted to using cairo_image_surface_t (which happens to
be faster anyway) we can use the IOSurfaceBaseAddress() to obtain a
mapping of the IOSurfaceRef in user-space. It always uses BGRA 32-bit
with alpha channel even if we will discard the alpha channel as that is
necessary to hit the fast paths in other parts of the platform. Note
that while Cairo says CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32, it is really 32-bit BGRA on
little-endian as we expect.
OpenGL will render flipped (Quartz Native Co-ordinates) while Cairo
renders with 0,O in the top-left. We could use cairo_translate() and
cairo_scale() to reverse this, but it looks like some cairo things may
not look quite as right if we do so. To reduce the chances of one-off
bugs this continues to draw as Cairo would normally, but instead uses
an CGAffineTransform in the tiles and some CGRect translation when
swapping buffers to get the same effect.
Changes to OpenGL
=================
To simplify things, removal of all NSOpenGL* related components have
been removed and we strictly use the Core GL (CGL*) API. This probably
should have been done long ago anyay.
Most examples found in the browsers to use IOSurfaceRef with OpenGL are
using Legacy GL and there is still work underway to make this fit in
with the rest of how the GSK GL renderer works.
Since IOSurfaceRef bound to a texture/framebuffer will not have a
default framebuffer ID of 0, we needed to add a default framebuffer id
to the GdkGLContext. GskGLRenderer can use this to setup the command
queue in such a way that our IOSurface destination has been
glBindFramebuffer() as if it were the default drawable.
This stuff is pretty slight-of-hand, so where things are and what needs
flushing when and where has been a bit of an experiment to see what
actually works to get synchronization across subsystems.
Efficient Damages
=================
After we draw with Cairo, we unlock the IOSurfaceRef and the contents
are uploaded to the GPU. To make the contents visible to the app,
we must clear the tiles contents with `layer.contents=nil;` and then
re-apply the IOSurfaceRef. Since the buffer has likely not changed, we
only do this if the tile overlaps the damage region.
This gives the effect of having more tightly controlled damage regions
even though updating the layer would damage be the whole window (as it
is with OpenGL/Metal today with the exception of scissor-rect).
This too can be verified usign "Quartz Debug -> Flash screen udpates".
Frame Synchronized Resize
=========================
In GTK 4, we have the ability to perform sizing changes from compute-size
during the layout phase. Since the macOS backend already tracks window
resizes manually, we can avoid doing the setFrame: immediately and instead
do it within the frame clock's layout phase.
Doing so gives us vastly better resize experience as we're more likely to
get the size-change and updated-contents in the same frame on screen. It
makes things feel "connected" in a way they weren't before.
Some additional effort to tweak gravity during the process is also
necessary but we were already doing that in the GTK 4 backend.
Backporting
===========
The design here has made an attempt to make it possible to backport by
keeping GdkMacosBuffer, GdkMacosLayer, and GdkMacosTile fairly
independent. There may be an opportunity to integrate this into GTK 3's
quartz backend with a fair bit of work. Doing so could improve the
situation for applications which are damage-rich such as The GIMP.
2022-02-14 10:20:19 +00:00
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#ifndef __GDK_MACOS_BUFFER_PRIVATE_H__
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#define __GDK_MACOS_BUFFER_PRIVATE_H__
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#include <CoreGraphics/CoreGraphics.h>
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#include <Foundation/Foundation.h>
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#include <IOSurface/IOSurface.h>
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#include <cairo.h>
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#include <glib-object.h>
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G_BEGIN_DECLS
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#define GDK_TYPE_MACOS_BUFFER (gdk_macos_buffer_get_type())
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G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE (GdkMacosBuffer, gdk_macos_buffer, GDK, MACOS_BUFFER, GObject)
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GdkMacosBuffer *_gdk_macos_buffer_new (int width,
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int height,
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double device_scale,
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int bytes_per_element,
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int bits_per_pixel);
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IOSurfaceRef _gdk_macos_buffer_get_native (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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void _gdk_macos_buffer_lock (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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void _gdk_macos_buffer_unlock (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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void _gdk_macos_buffer_read_lock (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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void _gdk_macos_buffer_read_unlock (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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macos: use CALayer and IOSurface for rendering
This provides a major shift in how we draw both when accelerated OpenGL
as well as software rendering with Cairo. In short, it uses tiles of Core
Animation's CALayer to display contents from an OpenGL or Cairo rendering
so that the window can provide partial damage updates. Partial damage is
not generally available when using OpenGL as the whole buffer is flipped
even if you only submitted a small change using a scissor rect.
Thankfully, this speeds up Cairo rendering a bit too by using IOSurface to
upload contents to the display server. We use the tiling system we do for
OpenGL which reduces overall complexity and differences between them.
A New Buffer
============
GdkMacosBuffer is a wrapper around an IOSurfaceRef. The term buffer was
used because 1) surface is already used and 2) it loosely maps to a
front/back buffer semantic.
However, it appears that IOSurfaceRef contents are being retained in
some fashion (likely in the compositor result) so we can update the same
IOSurfaceRef without flipping as long as we're fast. This appears to be
what Chromium does as well, but Firefox uses two IOSurfaceRef and flips
between them. We would like to avoid two surfaces because it doubles the
GPU VRAM requirements of the application.
Changes to Windows
==================
Previously, the NSWindow would dynamically change between different
types of NSView based on the renderer being used. This is no longer
necessary as we just have a single NSView type, GdkMacosView, which
inherits from GdkMacosBaseView just to keep the tedius stuff separate
from the machinery of GdkMacosView. We can merge those someday if we
are okay with that.
Changes to Views
================
GdkMacosCairoView, GdkMacosCairoSubView, GdkMacosGLView have all been
removed and replaced with GdkMacosView. This new view has a single
CALayer (GdkMacosLayer) attached to it which itself has sublayers.
The contents of the CALayer is populated with an IOSurfaceRef which
we allocated with the GdkMacosSurface. The surface is replaced when
the NSWindow resizes.
Changes to Layers
=================
We now have a dedicated GdkMacosLayer which contains sublayers of
GdkMacosTile. The tile has a maximum size of 128x128 pixels in device
units.
The GdkMacosTile is partitioned by splitting both the transparent
region (window bounds minus opaque area) and then by splitting the
opaque area.
A tile has either translucent contents (and therefore is not opaque) or
has opaque contents (and therefore is opaque). An opaque tile never
contains transparent contents. As such, the opaque tiles contain a black
background so that Core Animation will consider the tile's bounds as
opaque. This can be verified with "Quartz Debug -> Show opaque regions".
Changes to Cairo
================
GTK 4 cannot currently use cairo-quartz because of how CSS borders are
rendered. It simply causes errors in the cairo_quartz_surface_t backend.
Since we are restricted to using cairo_image_surface_t (which happens to
be faster anyway) we can use the IOSurfaceBaseAddress() to obtain a
mapping of the IOSurfaceRef in user-space. It always uses BGRA 32-bit
with alpha channel even if we will discard the alpha channel as that is
necessary to hit the fast paths in other parts of the platform. Note
that while Cairo says CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32, it is really 32-bit BGRA on
little-endian as we expect.
OpenGL will render flipped (Quartz Native Co-ordinates) while Cairo
renders with 0,O in the top-left. We could use cairo_translate() and
cairo_scale() to reverse this, but it looks like some cairo things may
not look quite as right if we do so. To reduce the chances of one-off
bugs this continues to draw as Cairo would normally, but instead uses
an CGAffineTransform in the tiles and some CGRect translation when
swapping buffers to get the same effect.
Changes to OpenGL
=================
To simplify things, removal of all NSOpenGL* related components have
been removed and we strictly use the Core GL (CGL*) API. This probably
should have been done long ago anyay.
Most examples found in the browsers to use IOSurfaceRef with OpenGL are
using Legacy GL and there is still work underway to make this fit in
with the rest of how the GSK GL renderer works.
Since IOSurfaceRef bound to a texture/framebuffer will not have a
default framebuffer ID of 0, we needed to add a default framebuffer id
to the GdkGLContext. GskGLRenderer can use this to setup the command
queue in such a way that our IOSurface destination has been
glBindFramebuffer() as if it were the default drawable.
This stuff is pretty slight-of-hand, so where things are and what needs
flushing when and where has been a bit of an experiment to see what
actually works to get synchronization across subsystems.
Efficient Damages
=================
After we draw with Cairo, we unlock the IOSurfaceRef and the contents
are uploaded to the GPU. To make the contents visible to the app,
we must clear the tiles contents with `layer.contents=nil;` and then
re-apply the IOSurfaceRef. Since the buffer has likely not changed, we
only do this if the tile overlaps the damage region.
This gives the effect of having more tightly controlled damage regions
even though updating the layer would damage be the whole window (as it
is with OpenGL/Metal today with the exception of scissor-rect).
This too can be verified usign "Quartz Debug -> Flash screen udpates".
Frame Synchronized Resize
=========================
In GTK 4, we have the ability to perform sizing changes from compute-size
during the layout phase. Since the macOS backend already tracks window
resizes manually, we can avoid doing the setFrame: immediately and instead
do it within the frame clock's layout phase.
Doing so gives us vastly better resize experience as we're more likely to
get the size-change and updated-contents in the same frame on screen. It
makes things feel "connected" in a way they weren't before.
Some additional effort to tweak gravity during the process is also
necessary but we were already doing that in the GTK 4 backend.
Backporting
===========
The design here has made an attempt to make it possible to backport by
keeping GdkMacosBuffer, GdkMacosLayer, and GdkMacosTile fairly
independent. There may be an opportunity to integrate this into GTK 3's
quartz backend with a fair bit of work. Doing so could improve the
situation for applications which are damage-rich such as The GIMP.
2022-02-14 10:20:19 +00:00
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guint _gdk_macos_buffer_get_width (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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guint _gdk_macos_buffer_get_height (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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guint _gdk_macos_buffer_get_stride (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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double _gdk_macos_buffer_get_device_scale (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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const cairo_region_t *_gdk_macos_buffer_get_damage (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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void _gdk_macos_buffer_set_damage (GdkMacosBuffer *self,
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cairo_region_t *damage);
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gpointer _gdk_macos_buffer_get_data (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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gboolean _gdk_macos_buffer_get_flipped (GdkMacosBuffer *self);
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void _gdk_macos_buffer_set_flipped (GdkMacosBuffer *self,
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gboolean flipped);
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G_END_DECLS
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#endif /* __GDK_MACOS_BUFFER_PRIVATE_H__ */
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