1554617 - Enable WebRender on GNU/Linux with Intel Ivy Bridge

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1632202

(Core :: Graphics: WebRender, task, P3)

Description

[antistress]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

1°) My configuration :

• Intel Core i3-3225 CPU @ 3.30GHz "Ivy Bridge" with HD 4000 ("Gen7" with 16 execution units/128 shading units)
• Display 5:4 1280*1024 60 Hz
• Firefox 66.0.5 on Debian GNU/Linux 64 bits Sid with GNOME-X11

$ lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A2
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0162] (rev 09)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Motherboard [1849:0162]
Kernel driver in use: i915

$ uname -a
Linux HAL 4.19.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-3 (2019-05-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux

2°) I've set gfx.webrender.all to true and restarted Firefox.
about:support page says"Compositing = WebRender"

3°) I did my normal surf
Plus I tried these pages (from https://github.com/FirefoxGraphics/DesignDocs/wiki/WebRender-Better) :
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160914-the-man-behind-the-million-dollar-homepage
https://marmalead.com
https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/esnext/
https://gsmarena.com
https://bholley.net/blog/latest/
https://www.outvote.io/

And also http://www.thesantaclausparade.com/

Actual results:

SInce a few weeks I'm using WebRender and everything is fine : no graphical bug and scrolling is smooth (actually smoother)

All links listed above are scroll smoothy

Expected results:

As far as I'm concerned, WebRender tests could be extend to Ivy Bridge

Congratulation for your hard work :)

Comment 1

[Andrew Osmond [:aosmond] (he/him)]

Yes, I believe this is the eventual plan as we roll out WebRender to more users.

Comment 2

[mthw0]

@antistress Have you also tried running some benchmarks? I am on Haswell and so far Webrender only uses more CPU, more GPU, but is slower.

Comment 3

[Darkspirit]

(antistress from comment #0)

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