Yield instead of busy-waiting on fences for NVIDIA cards.

[nageru] / decklink_output.cpp

diff --git a/decklink_output.cpp b/decklink_output.cpp
index a19d0a5e2e44440c9f79ad07f860ec629e194c37..d68467703103966942ce730076ab25875008ad5b 100644 (file)
--- a/decklink_output.cpp
+++ b/decklink_output.cpp
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <movit/util.h>
 #include <movit/resource_pool.h>  // Must be above the Xlib includes.
 #include <pthread.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 
 #include <mutex>
 
@@ -543,7 +544,15 @@ void DeckLinkOutput::present_thread_func()
                        ++metric_decklink_output_inflight_frames;
                }
 
-               glClientWaitSync(frame->fence.get(), /*flags=*/0, GL_TIMEOUT_IGNORED);
+               for ( ;; ) {
+                       int err = glClientWaitSync(frame->fence.get(), /*flags=*/0, 0);
+                       if (err == GL_TIMEOUT_EXPIRED) {
+                               // NVIDIA likes to busy-wait; yield instead.
+                               this_thread::sleep_for(milliseconds(1));
+                       } else {
+                               break;
+                       }
+               }
                check_error();
                frame->fence.reset();