[GEM-dev] sharing texture between process

[Cyrille Henry]

Le 27/10/2014 10:41, Antoine Villeret a écrit :
> hello,
>
> since texture sharing seems to work between context inside one Gem's
> instance, I'm now wondering how we can introduce texture sharing
> between process.
> According to [1], texture (and more generally display list) can be
> shared between process if direct rendering is disabled and process are
> using the same X server.
> If I understand correctly, the only thing to do is to share the
> display list structure over process.
> Could we use shared memory to do that ?
>
> I look into the [gemglxwindow] and [gemglutwindow] code and it looks a
> bit obscure to me, it uses advanced C++ idioms (PIMPL for the former
> and CALLBACK4WIN for the latter) that I don't understand well yet. So
> I want to know if this texture sharing between process is feasible
> before going deeper.

direct rendering disable?
that's look like a huge problem...

cheers
c

>
> Cheers
>
> Antoine
>
> [1] : https://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man2/xhtml/glXCreateContext.xml
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