This is a non-breaking addition to the stable Flutter Embedder API and exposes a
subset of the functionality provided by Dart_PostCObject API in a stable and
tested manner to custom embedder implementations.
Send port acquisition can currently be done as described in the unit-test but
there may be opportunities to extend this API in the future to access ports more
easily or create ports from the native side.
The following capabilities of the the Dart_PostCObject API are explicitly NOT
exposed:
* Object arrays: This allows callers to create complex object graphs but only
using the primitives specified in the native API. I could find no current use
case for this and would have made the implementation a lot more complex. This
is something we can add in the future if necessary however.
* Capabilities and ports: Again no use cases and I honestly I didn’t understand
how to use capabilities. If needed, these can be added at a later point by
appending to the union.
Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/46624
Fixes b/145982720
* Revert "Add flow test fixtures and tests (#13986)"
This reverts commit 620f5281b819f304e8e9e945222e26b17b087cc3.
* Revert "Dynamically determine whether to use offscreen surface based on need (#13976)"
This reverts commit a86ef946563b020108320bbfb974bf7343284fd3.
The converters are still in a separate target that must be included manually. This allows targets that depend on FML but not Dart runtime not have to depend on the runtime.
Adds a test that includes this target and tests image decompression from assets. There is also a test for the standalone DartConvertor in shell_unittests but not in fml_unittests be cause FML uni-tests cannot yet launch a VM. I will work on adding fixtures for those.
The fd passed to fdopendir will be unusable afterward. Using a duplicate
preserves the validity of the original directory fd passed to VisitFiles.
Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/43844
This re-enables thread safety checks for WeakPtr. WeakPtrs can't be used on a thread other than the one the WeakPtrFactory was created on.
This fixes the unit tests and adds a getUnsafe() method to WeakPtr to work around the remaining unresolved locations where we are using WeakPtr unsafely.
Since this is currently only meant to be used by the embedding internally, the setter in Objective-C is only exposed via the FlutterDartProject private class extension. Unit tests have been added to the shell_unittests harness.
Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/37641
The core underlying issue is that vector push_back could re-allocate and cause us to segfault. I have switched the backing queues to a map per @jason-simmons suggestion in flutter/flutter#38778.
I've also added a test to capture the aforementioned bug. I've run internal tests several times to validate that this is fixed.
General threading note for this class is that only the following operations take a write lock on the meta mutex:
1. Create
2. Dispose
The rest of the operations take read lock on the meta mutex and acquire finer grained locks for the duration of the operation. We can not grab read lock for the entire duration of NotifyObservers for example because observer can in-turn create other queues -- Which we should not block.
Additional changes:
1. Make as many methods as possible const. Unlocked methods are all const.
2. Migrate all the queue members to a struct, and have a map.
3. Get rid of the un-used Swap functionality.
This patch allows embedders to split the Flutter layer tree into multiple
chunks. These chunks are meant to be composed one on top of another. This gives
embedders a chance to interleave their own contents between these chunks.
The Flutter embedder API already provides hooks for the specification of
textures for the Flutter engine to compose within its own hierarchy (for camera
feeds, video, etc..). However, not all embedders can render the contents of such
sources into textures the Flutter engine can accept. Moreover, this composition
model may have overheads that are non-trivial for certain use cases. In such
cases, the embedder may choose to specify multiple render target for Flutter to
render into instead of just one.
The use of this API allows embedders to perform composition very similar to the
iOS embedder. This composition model is used on that platform for the embedding
of UIKit view such and web view and map views within the Flutter hierarchy.
However, do note that iOS also has threading configurations that are currently
not available to custom embedders.
The embedder API updates in this patch are ABI stable and existing embedders
will continue to work are normal. For embedders that want to enable this
composition mode, the API is designed to make it easy to opt into the same in an
incremental manner.
Rendering of contents into the “root” rendering surface remains unchanged.
However, now the application can push “platform views” via a scene builder.
These platform views need to handled by a FlutterCompositor specified in a new
field at the end of the FlutterProjectArgs struct.
When a new platform view in introduced within the layer tree, the compositor
will ask the embedder to create a new render target for that platform view.
Render targets can currently be OpenGL framebuffers, OpenGL textures or software
buffers. The type of the render target returned by the embedder must be
compatible with the root render surface. That is, if the root render surface is
an OpenGL framebuffer, the render target for each platform view must either be a
texture or a framebuffer in the same OpenGL context. New render target types as
well as root renderers for newer APIs like Metal & Vulkan can and will be added
in the future. The addition of these APIs will be done in an ABI & API stable
manner.
As Flutter renders frames, it gives the embedder a callback with information
about the position of the various platform views in the effective hierarchy.
The embedder is then meant to put the contents of the render targets that it
setup and had previously given to the engine onto the screen (of course
interleaving the contents of the platform views).
Unit-tests have been added that test not only the structure and properties of
layer hierarchy given to the compositor, but also the contents of the texels
rendered by a test compositor using both the OpenGL and software rendering
backends.
Fixes b/132812775
Fixesflutter/flutter#35410
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.
When |OS_FUCHSIA| is defined (even when |FUCHSIA_SDK| is defined as
well), use the Fuchsia SDK trace macros rather than the Dart timeline.
Reasons for doing this include:
Fuchsia's trace macros support categories. This allows one to
distinguish between (e.g.) "flutter" and "skia" trace events for trace
recording and trace visualization.
Fuchsia has existing in tree benchmarks that depend on finding certain
events under category "flutter".
See the Fuchsia performance mailing list discussion for more context.
- Add the functionality to merge and unmerge MessageLoopTaskQueues
This introduces a notion of a "owning" and "subsumed" queue ids.
Owning queue will take care of the tasks submitted to both that and it's
subsumed queue.
- The tasks submitted still maintain the queue affinity
- Same for the task observers
- Also adds MergedQueuesRunner which grabs both the locks owner
and subsumed queues in RAII fashion.
- Also use task queue id to verify if we are running
in the same thread.
- This is to enable merging the backed message loop task
queues to enable dynamic thread merging in IOS.
This patch reworks image decompression and collection in the following ways
because of misbehavior in the described edge cases.
The current flow for realizing a texture on the GPU from a blob of compressed
bytes is to first pass it to the IO thread for image decompression and then
upload to the GPU. The handle to the texture on the GPU is then passed back to
the UI thread so that it can be included in subsequent layer trees for
rendering. The GPU contexts on the Render & IO threads are in the same
sharegroup so the texture ends up being visible to the Render Thread context
during rendering. This works fine and does not block the UI thread. All
references to the image are owned on UI thread by Dart objects. When the final
reference to the image is dropped, the texture cannot be collected on the UI
thread (because it has not GPU context). Instead, it must be passed to either
the GPU or IO threads. The GPU thread is usually in the middle of a frame
workload so we redirect the same to the IO thread for eventual collection. While
texture collections are usually (comparatively) fast, texture decompression and
upload are slow (order of magnitude of frame intervals).
For application that end up creating (by not necessarily using) numerous large
textures in straight-line execution, it could be the case that texture
collection tasks are pending on the IO task runner after all the image
decompressions (and upload) are done. Put simply, the collection of the first
image could be waiting for the decompression and upload of the last image in the
queue.
This is exacerbated by two other hacks added to workaround unrelated issues.
* First, creating a codec with a single image frame immediately kicks of
decompression and upload of that frame image (even if the frame was never
request from the codec). This hack was added because we wanted to get rid of
the compressed image allocation ASAP. The expectation was codecs would only be
created with the sole purpose of getting the decompressed image bytes.
However, for applications that only create codecs to get image sizes (but
never actually decompress the same), we would end up replacing the compressed
image allocation with a larger allocation (device resident no less) for no
obvious use. This issue is particularly insidious when you consider that the
codec is usually asked for the native image size first before the frame is
requested at a smaller size (usually using a new codec with same data but new
targetsize). This would cause the creation of a whole extra texture (at 1:1)
when the caller was trying to “optimize” for memory use by requesting a
texture of a smaller size.
* Second, all image collections we delayed in by the unref queue by 250ms
because of observations that the calling thread (the UI thread) was being
descheduled unnecessarily when a task with a timeout of zero was posted from
the same (recall that a task has to be posted to the IO thread for the
collection of that texture). 250ms is multiple frame intervals worth of
potentially unnecessary textures.
The net result of these issues is that we may end up creating textures when all
that the application needs is to ask it’s codec for details about the same (but
not necessarily access its bytes). Texture collection could also be delayed
behind other jobs to decompress the textures on the IO thread. Also, all texture
collections are delayed for an arbitrary amount of time.
These issues cause applications to be susceptible to OOM situations. These
situations manifest in various ways. Host memory exhaustion causes the usual OOM
issues. Device memory exhaustion seems to manifest in different ways on iOS and
Android. On Android, allocation of a new texture seems to be causing an
assertion (in the driver). On iOS, the call hangs (presumably waiting for
another thread to release textures which we won’t do because those tasks are
blocked behind the current task completing).
To address peak memory usage, the following changes have been made:
* Image decompression and upload/collection no longer happen on the same thread.
All image decompression will now be handled on a workqueue. The number of
worker threads in this workqueue is equal to the number of processors on the
device. These threads have a lower priority that either the UI or Render
threads. These workers are shared between all Flutter applications in the
process.
* Both the images and their codec now report the correct allocation size to Dart
for GC purposes. The Dart VM uses this to pick objects for collection. Earlier
the image allocation was assumed to 32bpp with no mipmapping overhead
reported. Now, the correct image size is reported and the mipmapping overhead
is accounted for. Image codec sizes were not reported to the VM earlier and
now are. Expect “External” VM allocations to be higher than previously
reported and the numbers in Observatory to line up more closely with actual
memory usage (device and host).
* Decoding images to a specific size used to decode to 1:1 before performing a
resize to the correct dimensions before texture upload. This has now been
reworked so that images are first decompressed to a smaller size supported
natively by the codec before final resizing to the requested target size. The
intermediate copy is now smaller and more promptly collected. Resizing also
happens on the workqueue worker.
* The drain interval of the unref queue is now sub-frame-interval. I am hesitant
to remove the delay entirely because I have not been able to instrument the
performance overhead of the same. That is next on my list. But now, multiple
frame intervals worth of textures no longer stick around.
The following issues have been addressed:
* https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/34070 Since this was the first usage
of the concurrent message loops, the number of idle wakes were determined to
be too high and this component has been rewritten to be simpler and not use
the existing task runner and MessageLoopImpl interface.
* Image decoding had no tests. The new `ui_unittests` harness has been added
that sets up a GPU test harness on the host using SwiftShader. Tests have been
added for image decompression, upload and resizing.
* The device memory exhaustion in this benchmark has been addressed. That
benchmark is still not viable for inclusion in any harness however because it
creates 9 million codecs in straight-line execution. Because these codecs are
destroyed in the microtask callbacks, these are referenced till those
callbacks are executed. So now, instead of device memory exhaustion, this will
lead to (slower) exhaustion of host memory. This is expected and working as
intended.
This patch only addresses peak memory use and makes collection of unused images
and textures more prompt. It does NOT address memory use by images referenced
strongly by the application or framework.
* Refactor to move Task Queue to its own class
- This is to help with sharing task queue among
multiple message loops going forward.
- currently there is 1:1 mapping between task queue
and message loop, we are still maintaining the semantics
for this change.
* Add mutex include
* Most of the waking up changes minus test failures
* Refactor MessageLoopImpl to be Wakeable
- Makes testing easier by letting us putting a TestWakeable
- Also move the waking up logic to the task queue
* add tests
* Fix formatting and license
* Refactor to move Task Queue to its own class
- This is to help with sharing task queue among
multiple message loops going forward.
- currently there is 1:1 mapping between task queue
and message loop, we are still maintaining the semantics
for this change.
* Add mutex include
* Add unit tests for task queue
* fix formatting
* license
* Allow specifying both Dart and non-Dart fixtures in engine unittests.
This fixes numerous issues in the way in which fixtures were managed
in the engine unit-tests.
* Instead of only being able to specify Dart fixtures, unit-tests may specify
non-Dart fixtures as well. These are simply copied over to the fixtures
directory known to the unit-test at runtime.
* An issue where numerous Dart files could be given to the kernel snapshotter
has been addressed. It was anticipated that such a (legal) invocation to the
kernel snapshotter would produce a snapshot with the contents of all the Dart
files added to the root library. This is incorrect and the behavior in this
case is undefined.
* Dart files referenced by the main Dart file are correctly tracked via a
depfile.
* The snapshotter arguments have been cleaned up to get rid of unused
arguments (`—strong`) and the use of the VM product mode argument has been
corrected to no longer depend on the Flutter product mode.
