Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/130775
On the Skia backend, antiAliasWithSaveLayer is the highest fidelity clipping option. In the Impeller backend, there isn't any difference in how we clip, since the stencil buffer is always used. Nevertheless we were still inserting the save layer, which results in an extra offscreen texture and is wasteful.
Track if impeller is enabled in the diff/preroll/paint context and avoid inserting a save layer.
Removes the physical model layer and associated engine code. This was already deprecated and removed in the framework. By removing it in the engine, we can also remove the need for layer tree diff/paint/preroll to have the device pixel ratio. This will simplify some of the multi-view work
Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/125720
Implements partial repaint for Impeller.
Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/124526
The new code that manages the damage regions is more or less a copy paste from the existing Skia implementation. Compared to Skia, there are a few differences:
Normally Impeller wants to use the drawable as the resolve texture for the root MSAA pass. Unfortunately this will unconditonally clear that texture. Thus to do a partial repaint, we have to allocate a separate texture to resolve to and then blit into the drawable.
The blit seems to take about 500ns for a full screen on an iPhone 13. That implies that partial repaint is likely not worth doing if the screen is significantly changed. Thus I've added code in compositor_context.cc that computes the percentage of width or height that is part of the dirty rect. Above a threshold of (abitrarily chosen) 70%, we just render as normal. This should mean there is only a very minor hit from performing the diff on screens that are highly changed.
The other special case, is that sometimes we get damage rects that are empty - that is the drawable is already completely up to date with what we want to render. IN that case I shortcircuit all of the impeller code and just present immediately. I previously tried returning without a present but this resulted in Xcode reporting dropped frames. One caveat here is that if you use the XCode frame debugger and attempt to capture a frame where we early present, then it will claim it couldn't capture any command buffers (because we didn't create any).
To facilitate all of this, I added some additonal plumbing so that the impeller surface can get the clip rect from the submit info. Additionally, rather than using a clip rect impeller will translate and then shrink the root surface texture. This reduces memory usage compared to just clippling.
* Tweak Texture::Paint API
* Support external textures for iOS
* format code
* Tweak code
* format
* Clean code
* [Impeller] Support YUV external textures on iOS
* Fix test
* Clean code
* Fix compile error
* Add todo link
* Clean code
This is part of a larger effort to expose the difference between GrDirectContext,
which runs on the GPU thread and can directly perform operations like uploading
textures, and GrRecordingContext, which can only queue up work to be delivered
to the GrDirectContext later.
This PR touches variable names, class names, and file names so it's significantly more risky than its predecessor https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/17329
Due to file name changes, this PR is expected to change the license files.
We haven't rename `shell/gpu` to `shell/raster` yet. It should be optional but I think it's better to have `raster_surface_software.cc` than `gpu_surface_software.cc`.
This moves the Metal `GrContext` creation utilities from `GPUSurfaceMetal` into
a separate `IOSContext` object subclass. An analogue of this object was used in
the GL regime for the management of onscreen and offscreen contexts that were
not tied to the lifecycle of the `GPUSurface`. This pattern has now been
generalized for use with all backends that need a resource context
(`IOSContextGL` and `IOContextMetal`).
The platform views controller management in the `ExternalViewEmbedder` interface
implementation was repeated three times for [Metal][metal], [OpenGL](opengl) and
[Software](software) rendering. This repetition has been removed and a single
implementation present in the base `IOSSurface` and used on all platforms.
Addition of new client rendering APIs should not affect how the engine renders
into the platform view interleaving levels.
All rendering API selection logic has been moved into a single set of utilities
in `rendering_api_selection.h`. This enables the removal of a lot of code blocks
guarded by `FLUTTER_SHELL_ENABLE_METAL`. The remaining uses of this will be
removed when unified builds are enabled.
The Metal backend now also adds traces similar to the GL backend.
The `IOGLContext` has been renamed to `IOContextGL` to be more in line with the
convention used in this library.
Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/41827
Adds https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/52150
[metal]: 46dbf3a761/shell/platform/darwin/ios/ios_surface_metal.mm (L55)
[opengl]: 46dbf3a761/shell/platform/darwin/ios/ios_surface_gl.mm (L95)
[software]: 46dbf3a761/shell/platform/darwin/ios/ios_surface_software.mm (L146)
After pre-roll we know if there have been any mutations made to the IOS embedded UIViews. If there are any mutations and the thread configuration is such chat the mutations will be committed on an illegal thread (GPU thread), we merge the threads and keep them merged until the lease expires. The lease is currently set to expire after 10 frames of no mutations. If there are any mutations in the interim we extend the lease.
TaskRunnerMerger will ultimately be responsible for enforcing the correct thread configurations.
This configuration will be inactive even after this change since still use the same thread when we create the iOS engine. That is slated to change in the coming PRs.
This is part of a bigger change that will facilitate us
to act on this `RasterStatus`. The specific case is where
after pre-roll we might decide to want to merge the threads
and re-submit the frame -- `RasterStatus::kResubmit` can then
let us achieve this result.
At a quick glance, one could easily think of the "engine_time" as the
GPU thread time and the "frame_time" as the UI thread time because the
GPU thread time is mainly spent on the engine while the UI thread time
is mainly spent on the Dart framework to generate the frame.
But it's actually the other way. The "engine_time" is UI thread time and
the "frame_time" is the GPU thread time.
To avoid the confusion, rename them to "ui_time" and "raster_time"
respectively. I avoided the "gpu_time" because the rasterization may be
purely on a CPU backed software Skia backend.
For flow to manipulate the embedded UIViews during the paint traversal
it needs some hook in PaintContext.
This PR introduces a ViewEmbeder interface that is implemented by the
iOS PlatformViewsController and plumbs it into PaintContext.
The ViewEmbedder interface is mainly a place holder at this point, as
this PR is focused on just the plumbing.
* Revert "Revert "Allow raster caching any layer subtree (#6442)" (#6506)"
This reverts commit 0ec9ea75fe7ff9e2121b06fe7d7c9d9751778c65.
* Use raw pointer for RasterCacheKey
So we won't depend on whether it's a std::unique_ptr or std::shared_ptr.
We first test this with OpacityLayer. This test alone (without retained rendering) should have ~30% speedup as we'll have fewer render target switches by snapshoting in the Preroll instead of saveLayer in the Paint.
In my local flutter_gallery transition perf tests, the average frame time drops from ~16ms to ~12ms.
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/21756
* Support multiple shells in a single process.
The Flutter Engine currently works by initializing a singleton shell
instance. This shell has to be created on the platform thread. The shell
is responsible for creating the 3 main threads used by Flutter (UI, IO,
GPU) as well as initializing the Dart VM. The shell, references to task
runners of the main threads as well as all snapshots used for VM
initialization are stored in singleton objects. The Flutter shell only
creates the threads, rasterizers, contexts, etc. to fully support a
single Flutter application. Current support for multiple Flutter
applications is achieved by making multiple applications share the same
resources (via the platform views mechanism).
This scheme has the following limitations:
* The shell is a singleton and there is no way to tear it down. Once you
run a Flutter application in a process, all resources managed by it
will remain referenced till process termination.
* The threads on which the shell performs its operations are all
singletons. These threads are never torn down and multiple Flutter
applications (if present) have to compete with one another on these
threads.
* Resources referenced by the Dart VM are leaked because the VM isn't
shutdown even when there are no more Flutter views.
* The shell as a target does not compile on Fuchsia. The Fuchsia content
handler uses specific dependencies of the shell to rebuild all the
shell dependencies on its own. This leads to differences in frame
scheduling, VM setup, service protocol endpoint setup, tracing, etc..
Fuchsia is very much a second class citizen in this world.
* Since threads and message loops are managed by the engine, the engine
has to know about threading and platform message loop interop on each
supported platform.
Specific updates in this patch:
* The shell is no longer a singleton and the embedder holds the unique
reference to the shell.
* Shell setup and teardown is deterministic.
* Threads are no longer managed by the shell. Instead, the shell is
given a task runner configuration by the embedder.
* Since the shell does not own its threads, the embedder can control
threads and the message loops operating on these threads. The shell is
only given references to the task runners that execute tasks on these
threads.
* The shell only needs task runner references. These references can be
to the same task runner. So, if the embedder thinks that a particular
Flutter application would not need all the threads, it can pass
references to the same task runner. This effectively makes Flutter
application run in single threaded mode. There are some places in the
shell that make synchronous calls, these sites have been updated to
ensure that they don’t deadlock.
* The test runner and the headless Dart code runner are now Flutter
applications that are effectively single threaded (since they don’t
have rendering concerns of big-boy Flutter application).
* The embedder has to guarantee that the threads and outlive the shell.
It is easy for the embedder to make that guarantee because shell
termination is deterministic.
* The embedder can create as many shell as it wants. Typically it
creates a shell per Flutter application with its own task runner
configuration. Most embedders obtain these task runners from threads
dedicated to the shell. But, it is entirely possible that the embedder
can obtain these task runners from a thread pool.
* There can only be one Dart VM in the process. The numerous shell
interact with one another to manage the VM lifecycle. Once the last
shell goes away, the VM does as well and hence all resources
associated with the VM are collected.
* The shell as a target can now compile and run on Fuchsia. The current
content handler has been removed from the Flutter engine source tree
and a new implementation has been written that uses the new shell
target.
* Isolate management has been significantly overhauled. There are no
owning references to Dart isolates within the shell. The VM owns the
only strong reference to the Dart isolate. The isolate that has window
bindings is now called the root isolate. Child isolates can now be
created from the root isolate and their bindings and thread
configurations are now inherited from the root isolate.
* Terminating the shell terminates its root isolates as well as all the
isolates spawned by this isolate. This is necessary be shell shutdown
is deterministic and the embedder is free to collect the threads on
which the isolates execute their tasks (and listen for mircrotasks
flushes on).
* Launching the root isolate is now significantly overhauled. The shell
side (non-owning) reference to an isolate is now a little state
machine and illegal state transitions should be impossible (barring
construction issues). This is the only way to manage Dart isolates in
the shell (the shell does not use the C API is dart_api.h anymore).
* Once an isolate is launched, it must be prepared (and hence move to
the ready phase) by associating a snapshot with the same. This
snapshot can either be a precompiled snapshot, kernel snapshot, script
snapshot or source file. Depending on the kind of data specified as a
snapshot as well as the capabilities of the VM running in the process,
isolate preparation can fail preparation with the right message.
* Asset management has been significantly overhauled. All asset
resolution goes through an abstract asset resolver interface. An asset
manager implements this interface and manages one or more child asset
resolvers. These asset resolvers typically resolve assets from
directories, ZIP files (legacy FLX assets if provided), APK bundles,
FDIO namespaces, etc…
* Each launch of the shell requires a separate and fully configured
asset resolver. This is necessary because launching isolates for the
engine may require resolving snapshots as assets from the asset
resolver. Asset resolvers can be shared by multiple launch instances
in multiple shells and need to be thread safe.
* References to the command line object have been removed from the
shell. Instead, the shell only takes a settings object that may be
configured from the command line. This makes it easy for embedders and
platforms that don’t have a command line (Fuchsia) to configure the
shell. Consequently, there is only one spot where the various switches
are read from the command line (by the embedder and not the shell) to
form the settings object.
* All platform now respect the log tag (this was done only by Android
till now) and each shell instance have its own log tag. This makes
logs from multiple Flutter application in the same process (mainly
Fuchsia) more easily decipherable.
* The per shell IO task runner now has a new component that is
unfortunately named the IOManager. This component manages the IO
GrContext (used for asynchronous texture uploads) that cooperates with
the GrContext on the GPU task runner associated with the shell. The
IOManager is also responsible for flushing tasks that collect Skia
objects that reference GPU resources during deterministic shell
shutdown.
* The embedder now has to be careful to only enable Blink on a single
instance of the shell. Launching the legacy text layout and rendering
engine multiple times is will trip assertions. The entirety of this
runtime has been separated out into a separate object and can be
removed in one go when the migration to libtxt is complete.
* There is a new test target for the various C++ objects that the shell
uses to interact with the Dart VM (the shell no longer use the C API
in dart_api.h). This allows engine developers to test VM/Isolate
initialization and teardown without having the setup a full shell
instance.
* There is a new test target for the testing a single shell instances
without having to configure and launch an entire VM and associated
root isolate.
* Mac, Linux & Windows used to have different target that created the
flutter_tester referenced by the tool. This has now been converted
into a single target that compiles on all platforms.
* WeakPointers vended by the fml::WeakPtrFactory(notice the difference
between the same class in the fxl namespace) add threading checks on
each use. This is enabled by getting rid of the “re-origination”
feature of the WeakPtrFactory in the fxl namespace. The side effect of
this is that all non-thread safe components have to be created, used
and destroyed on the same thread. Numerous thread safety issues were
caught by this extra assertion and have now been fixed.
* Glossary of components that are only safe on a specific thread (and
have the fml variants of the WeakPtrFactory):
* Platform Thread: Shell
* UI Thread: Engine, RuntimeDelegate, DartIsolate, Animator
* GPU Thread: Rasterizer, Surface
* IO Thread: IOManager
This patch was reviewed in smaller chunks in the following pull
requests. All comments from the pulls requests has been incorporated
into this patch:
* flutter/assets: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4829
* flutter/common: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4830
* flutter/content_handler: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4831
* flutter/flow: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4832
* flutter/fml: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4833
* flutter/lib/snapshot: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4834
* flutter/lib/ui: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4835
* flutter/runtime: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4836
* flutter/shell: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4837
* flutter/synchronization: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4838
* flutter/testing: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4839
* Move texture registry ownership to platform view
This enables the texture registry to survive activity pause on Android.
* Remove debug info
* Formatted
* Set texture registry on initial rasterizer
* Remove unneccessary std::move
