Hi Maxim
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
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>> AFAIU this issue is still present using mesa 23 since Guillaume Le
>> Vaillant had to use this workaround yesterday [1] and reported his
>> backtrace upstream [2]
>>
>> If I'm not wrong (i.e. vlc et al are now using mesa 23) this should also
>> be reported upstream (I can do it if needed).
>
> Which upstream are you thinking about?
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> My understanding is that this problem is a Mesa problem, and it's
> already reported there (the issue linked in [2]).
yes but the original bug report mentions Mesa 22.2.4 and M. Briar asked:
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Mesa 22.2.x is already end-of-life and won't receive any fixes
anymore. Does this also happen on newer versions?
IMHO there is no clear answer to that question in the bug thread, maybe
mesa developers still think it's just 22.2.X related
Now we have Mesa 23.0.3 in Giux, probably the one used by vlc when
Guillaume reported his issue upstream (mesa) on June 15
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>> AFAIU the only thing we can do to fix this bug is to disable the shader
>> cache (MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DISABLE=true) until a proper fix is found
>> upstream.
>
> Disabling the shader cache sounds like a decent workaround or even
> definitive solution. One less stale cache to worry about...
oh yes! Unfortunately cache management is not so robust... sometimes :-(
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> If it's like the Qt shader cache, the performance hit is probably too
> small to be noticeable (maybe just slower startup times of complicated
> opengl applications such as games?).
I don't know the cost in term of performance, I'm not a 3D expert at
all; from what I read on the web about shader chaches I guess it's a
real problem almost only for games and I guess it's not a problem at
all for media players like vlc et al: I'm just brainstorming but what
about having a mesa-with-cache-enabled version just for the games, if it
is really needed?
I should be able to propose a patch to disable the mesa shader cache,
but since I'm not an expert in this field I prefer to leave this
decision (to disable the cache, I mean) to someone else
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>> ...or apply a patch to rename "~/.cache/mesa_shader_cache" to
>> "~/.cache/mesa<version>_shader_cache"
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> That's another good idea.
I was just doing guesswork but the bug caused by this mesa upgrade
smells like a binary incompatibility between two versions (or just major
versions)... so a versioned shader cache makes sense to me
I'm not able to propose (I mean to code) such a patch, anyway
Anyway, users should know that they have to periodically clean unused
shader caches, since from what I read on the net the shader cache tends
to really /explode/ in terms of size, in some cases
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>> Alternatively, we should find a way to make Guix users aware of this
>> kind of problems and possible workarounds they can apply (it's not
>> related to this specific bug)
>
> I would rather pursue the other above options you suggest, so that it
> doesn't happen in the first place!
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> Thank you for sharing these ideas.
Thank you for your attention!
Happy hacking, Gio'
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Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
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