kwin/renderjournal.h
Vlad Zahorodnii ad5f8c5c59 Introduce RenderJournal
Currently, we estimate the expected render time purely based on the
latency policy.

The problem with doing so is that the real render time might be larger,
this can result in frame drops.

In order to avoid frame drops, we need to take into account previous
render times while estimating the next render time. For now, we just
measure how long it takes to record rendering commands on the CPU.

In the future, we might want consider using OpenGL timer queries for
measuring the real render time, but for now, it's good enough.
2021-01-06 16:59:29 +00:00

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/*
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Vlad Zahorodnii <vlad.zahorodnii@kde.org>
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
*/
#pragma once
#include "kwinglobals.h"
#include <QElapsedTimer>
#include <QQueue>
namespace KWin
{
/**
* The RenderJournal class measures how long it takes to render frames and estimates how
* long it will take to render the next frame.
*/
class KWIN_EXPORT RenderJournal
{
public:
RenderJournal();
/**
* This function must be called before starting rendering a new frame.
*/
void beginFrame();
/**
* This function must be called after finishing rendering a frame.
*/
void endFrame();
/**
* Returns the maximum estimated amount of time that it takes to render a single frame.
*/
std::chrono::nanoseconds maximum() const;
/**
* Returns the minimum estimated amount of time that it takes to render a single frame.
*/
std::chrono::nanoseconds minimum() const;
/**
* Returns the average estimated amount of time that it takes to render a single frame.
*/
std::chrono::nanoseconds average() const;
private:
QElapsedTimer m_timer;
QQueue<std::chrono::nanoseconds> m_log;
int m_size = 15;
};
} // namespace KWin