1624042 - Add a way to warm-up shaders that includes offscreen draw calls

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

On macOS, shader compilation happens in two steps:

1. During glLinkProgram, a GPU-independent compilation is performed in ShCompile by libGLProgrammability.dylib: https://perfht.ml/35xW0gT
2. During draw calls such as glDrawElementsInstanced, the GPU-specific part of compilation is performed by the driver. For example by USC::IM_Shader::Compile in AppleIntelSKLGraphicsGLDriver: https://perfht.ml/2WvtVoB

If the OpenGL context is moved to a different GPU, compilation 2 happens again with the other driver, once a given shader is used for the first time on the new GPU.

For shader warm-up, e.g. the one needed in bug 1624030, we should engage the entire compilation pipeline. That means we have to execute some draw calls that use the given shaders. Maybe we can draw to a 1x1 offscreen FBO?

Comment 1

[Daniel Lu]

Attachment: Bug 1624042 - Warmup shaders with offscreen draw calls. r=jrmuizel

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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