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gamescope: frames on the display's real vsync, FIFO under a cap, compositor off SurfaceFlinger's cores (payload 20261102.1) - #2319
Gamescope sessions now hold the cap on the display's own vsync. Before this, they ran 1-3 % under it, and DXVK games with in-game VSync on ran at about half the rate. This PR goes together with:
Three clocks. The panel latches at 59.97-59.99 Hz. The daemon stamped gamescope's flip events on a walk of exactly 60.000 Hz, and the shim's acquire gate released frames on its own 60.000 Hz clock. Both slid across SurfaceFlinger's latch, which dropped a frame each time two buffers landed in one latch window.
Mailbox to gamescope. The container's MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE=mailbox made the shim declare every frame mailbox to gamescope, so gamescope's limiter could not hold it.
VSync on. With in-game VSync on, DXVK waits on every present. The shim answered that wait a vblank late, so the game ran at 35 fps.
Priority. gamescope ran at nice 0 below the game's threads, because it only raises priority with CAP_SYS_NICE.
Shared cores. The compositor chain shared CPUs 0-2 with SurfaceFlinger's and the audio stack's realtime threads, and was preempted there right around the latch.
What it does
jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libgamenative_drm.so is rebuilt from gamenative-drm flip-events-on-the-real-vsync-pr: sha256 d48e27cd… (bc30175e… in the APK after stripping). The daemon now:
stamps flip events on the display's measured vsync, from Choreographer, on SurfaceFlinger's latch grid minus a measured lead, as a KMS driver stamps the hardware vblank;
claims the latch from the instant the apply started;
keeps its thread names across app upcalls, so the affinity below can find them.
GamescopePayload.VERSION = 20261102.1 (the payload is listed below). The payload's shim now:
declares FIFO to gamescope while a cap is set, as gamescope's WSI layer does on a PC, so gamescope's limiter is the cap;
answers vkWaitForPresentKHR from gamescope's wp_presentation feedback, as Mesa does.
The payload's gamescope gets nice −20 through RLIMIT_NICE (A57).
powercontrol/PowerManager.kt, TaskAffinity.kt, display/GamescopeServerComponent.java, cpp/gnaffinity + prebuilt libgnaffinity.so keep gamescope, its Xwayland and the gndrm threads on the online cores minus SurfaceFlinger's Cpus_allowed_list (3-7 on the RP6).
This is applied at session connect and whenever the game pin re-applies, and released at session end.
It needs no privilege: sched_setaffinity is allowed on any task of the app's uid.
The measurement behind it: in a 30 s trace, 269 of the 283 preemptions over 1 ms on the compositor path were on CPU 2, clustered around the latch; none over 0.7 ms on CPUs 3-6. 10 of the 20 doubled intervals in that trace had such a stall.
libgnaffinity.so sha256 61272eb7…; source, build script and provenance are in app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity.
Payload 20261102.1
gamescope-gamenative-20261102.1.tzst, 14295767 B, sha256 5616837d976f3d4cfaaaa096529276d5f35b13f01d2ac161464c1418f7d365b4. It is 20261101.6 with two members replaced; every other member is byte-identical.
Retroid Pocket 6 (Android 13, Adreno 740), gamescope, cap 60, 60 Hz mode, same scene per game, frames counted at SurfaceFlinger. Before = master with payload 20261101.6. After = this branch with payload 20261102.1.
Game
Before
After
Dave the Diver (DXVK), in-game VSync on
35.3 fps (every other frame two vblanks)
59.95 at a 59.99 Hz panel; 0 discarded / 0 fallback present-wait answers over 120 s
Dave the Diver, VSync off
54-57
59.4 (limited by the game's own 59.55 Hz timer)
SteamWorld Dig 2 (GL)
57.1 (periodic drop zones)
59.5, drop zones gone
SteamWorld Dig 2's remaining ~1 % of doubled intervals is not fixed here and is being investigated separately.
Behaviour changes to know about:
A cap that does not divide the display's rate (40 or 45 on 60 Hz) now runs at gamescope's next divisor rate (60), which is upstream gamescope's limiter.
Under a cap, frames queue FIFO in gamescope as on a PC.
Frame generation keeps its own path. It was not re-measured in this round.
Test steps
Install the APK, open a game with the display server set to gamescope, and set the FPS limit to 60 on a 60 Hz panel. The payload 20261102.1 downloads on first launch. In logcat, expect Gamescope payload 20261102.1 ready, and the app's files/gamescope/.payload.version should read 20261102.1.
In logcat:
gndrm-daemon: vsync: flip events on the display's vsync: source=choreographer-deadline period=… (59.9xx Hz, mode 60.000 Hz);
In logcat, gamescope's No CAP_SYS_NICE; RLIMIT_NICE permits nice -20 … and Nice -20 also applied to 5 thread(s)….
In logcat, PowerManager: Applied affinity 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (mask 0xf8) to gamescope (PID: …), Xwayland (PID: …), gndrm threads (TIDs: …) on the RP6. The core list follows SurfaceFlinger's mask on other devices.
Check the rate: dumpsys SurfaceFlinger --latency over 30 s reads the panel's rate. Turning in-game VSync on in a DXVK game (Dave the Diver) no longer halves it.
Regression checks:
an X11 session shows no Applied affinity … to gamescope line;
frame generation x2 at cap 40 still produces 80, with declared=mailbox lsfg=1.
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Summary by cubic
Gamescope sessions now hold the FPS cap on the display's own vsync instead of running just under it, and the compositor chain is moved off the cores SurfaceFlinger uses.
Rebuilds libgamenative_drm.so so flip events are stamped on the display's measured vsync (Choreographer, on SurfaceFlinger's latch grid) rather than a 60.000 Hz walk of the daemon's own clock.
Bumps the payload to 20261102.1: gamescope gets nice −20 via RLIMIT_NICE without CAP_SYS_NICE, and the shim declares FIFO to gamescope under a cap so the limiter is the cap, answering vkWaitForPresentKHR from wp_presentation feedback.
Adds libgnaffinity.so plus TaskAffinity/PowerManager changes that pin every gamescope, Xwayland, and gndrm thread to the online cores minus SurfaceFlinger's mask (3–7 on the RP6), applied at session connect and on game pin, released at session end; no privilege needed since all threads run under the app's uid.
Measured on a Retroid Pocket 6 at cap 60 on 60 Hz: Dave the Diver (DXVK) with VSync on went 35.3 → 59.95 fps, VSync off 54–57 → 59.4; SteamWorld Dig 2 (GL) 57.1 → 59.5.
Behavior changes to know about
A cap that does not divide the display rate (40 or 45 on 60 Hz) now runs at gamescope's next divisor rate (60), matching upstream gamescope's limiter.
Under a cap, frames queue FIFO in gamescope as on a PC.
Frame generation keeps its own path and was not re-measured.
Written for commit 94d2e17. Summary will update on new commits.
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New Features
Game sessions now manage CPU assignments for the compositor and related processes, applying them during startup and restoring access to available cores when the session ends.
Updates
Updated the bundled Gamescope payload. The app now uses the updated version when checking payload readiness.
On a Retroid Pocket 6 (SteamWorld Dig 2 under gamescope, cap 60, 30 s
context-switch trace of every app-uid thread) 10 of the 20 doubled frame
intervals had a critical-path thread (gamescope-xwm, gamescope-wl, Xwayland's
glamor threads, the daemon's gndrm threads) runnable but preempted for 1 ms or
more on CPU 2 inside the slot. Of the 283 preemptions longer than 1 ms on that
path, 269 were on CPU 2, clustered within 2 ms either side of
SurfaceFlinger's latch; on CPUs 3-6 none waited more than 0.7 ms. CPUs 0-2 are
where SurfaceFlinger, the HWC composer, crtc_commit and the audio FastMixer
run as realtime threads, and EAS packs light periodic threads (gamescope-kms,
-wl, gamescope_img, Xwayland:gdrv0) onto the one little core it is given, so
the chain kept landing behind the display server's own realtime work at the
moment it had to commit.
When a gamescope session connects, and again whenever the game pin is
re-applied, every thread of gamescope and of its Xwayland, and the gndrm*
threads the display daemon runs inside the app process, get the online cores
minus SurfaceFlinger's Cpus_allowed_list (3-7 on the RP6); when that mask
cannot be read, the lowest-capacity cluster is left out instead. At session
end they get every online core back. Nothing is found and nothing changes in
an X11 session.
This needs no privilege: Linux allows sched_setaffinity on any task of the
caller's uid, and gamescope, Xwayland and the daemon threads all run under the
app's uid. The call is one JNI function in a new prebuilt, libgnaffinity.so
(source, build script and sha256 under app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity), because
android.os.Process has no per-thread affinity call. It applies whatever the
driver, the profile or the container CPU list say.
One line per placement:
PowerManager: Applied affinity 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (mask 0xf8) to gamescope
(PID: …), Xwayland (PID: …), gndrm threads (TIDs: …), 37 of 37 threads,
gamescope now 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (gamescope session start)
… payload 20261102.1
libgamenative_drm.so is rebuilt (d48e27cd) from the gamenative-drm branch
flip-events-on-the-real-vsync-pr: the daemon stamps gamescope's flip events
on the display's measured vsync (Choreographer, on SurfaceFlinger's latch
grid minus a measured lead) instead of a 60.000 Hz walk of its own, from the
instant the apply started, and keeps its thread names across app upcalls.
Payload 20261102.1 is 20261101.6 with two members replaced:
- bin/gamescope (b5b23f33) built from gamescope nice-via-rlimit-nice (A57:
nice -20 through RLIMIT_NICE, without CAP_SYS_NICE, including the threads
started before main);
- lib/libadrenotools_gamescope.so (b9aedd01), the shim from the same
gamenative-drm branch: it declares FIFO to gamescope while a cap is set, so
gamescope's limiter is the cap, and answers vkWaitForPresentKHR from
gamescope's wp_presentation feedback.
Retroid Pocket 6, cap 60, 60 Hz: Dave the Diver (DXVK) with in-game VSync on
35.3 -> 59.95 fps, VSync off 54-57 -> 59.4; SteamWorld Dig 2 (GL) 57.1 -> 59.5.
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- Line 6: Update the NDK resolution in the build.sh setup around NDK to honor
ANDROID_NDK and the Android SDK environment variables, with a host-appropriate
fallback for NDK 27.3.13750724. Validate that the resolved NDK contains the
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Review comments at
@app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopeServerComponent.java:
- Line 56: Serialize the compositor-affinity application in awaitConnected()
with affinity release in stop(), or use a session generation to prevent stale
waiters from applying affinity after teardown. Ensure the apply/release ordering
remains safe across a newly started matching process; a second stopped check
alone is insufficient.
Review comments at
@app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt:
- Line 1281: Serialize the pin worker’s final generation check and
compositor-affinity apply with teardown using the same lock, so a stale worker
cannot apply affinity after release. In PowerManager, update the worker around
applyCompositorAffinity and releaseCompositorAffinity to check the session
generation and apply affinity atomically, and increment the generation inside
the release critical section before releasing cores.
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Adds native and Kotlin task-affinity support, selects CPU masks for compositor threads, and connects affinity changes to Gamescope session events. The Gamescope payload version also changes.
Changes: Compositor affinity
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Summary
Native affinity bridge and build app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/jni/CMakeLists.txt, app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/jni/gnaffinity.c, app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/build.sh, app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/PROVENANCE.md
Adds a JNI function that sets task affinity and returns success or errno. Adds an Android arm64-v8a build script and CMake configuration. Documents the packaged library’s checksum, build settings, exported symbol, and dependencies.
Task affinity selection and application app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/TaskAffinity.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt
Adds a Kotlin wrapper for the native setter. PowerManager selects CPU masks and applies them to gamescope, Xwayland, and this app’s gndrm* threads. It can also release the affinity restriction by assigning online CPUs.
Gamescope startup applies compositor affinity, and session stop releases it. A successful game pin also triggers affinity application. The Gamescope payload version changes to 20261102.1.
sequenceDiagram
participant GamescopeServerComponent
participant PowerManager
participant TaskAffinity
participant sched_setaffinity
GamescopeServerComponent->>PowerManager: applyCompositorAffinity(reason)
PowerManager->>TaskAffinity: set(tid, mask) for compositor threads
TaskAffinity->>sched_setaffinity: set CPU mask for tid
sched_setaffinity-->>TaskAffinity: success or errno
GamescopeServerComponent->>PowerManager: releaseCompositorAffinity(reason) on session stop
PowerManager->>TaskAffinity: set(tid, online CPU mask)
TaskAffinity->>sched_setaffinity: set CPU mask for tid
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utkarshdalal/GameNative#2220: Adds the Gamescope display-server session and daemon integration that this change connects to affinity management.
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<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/TaskAffinity.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/TaskAffinity.kt:23">
P3: The `-1` return for an unavailable library is not an errno, yet the caller logs it as `errno -1` for every thread. Return a real errno such as ENOSYS (38) so the contract stays "0 or errno".</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/build.sh">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/build.sh:6">
P3: The NDK default hardcodes a macOS home path, so the script only works on one machine layout unless `ANDROID_NDK` is set. Require the variable explicitly so a missing NDK fails with a clear message.</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt:1377">
P2: If SurfaceFlinger's mask and the device's `cpu_capacity` files are unavailable, `lowest` is null and this excludes no CPUs, leaving gamescope eligible to run on SurfaceFlinger's cores. Add a topology-based fallback for this case.</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopeServerComponent.java">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopeServerComponent.java:56">
P2: A stop can race with `gamescopeAnswered()`, letting this waiter reapply affinity after `stop()` releases it. Invalidate the session or synchronize/recheck lifecycle state before applying affinity.</violation>
</file>
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P2: If SurfaceFlinger's mask and the device's cpu_capacity files are unavailable, lowest is null and this excludes no CPUs, leaving gamescope eligible to run on SurfaceFlinger's cores. Add a topology-based fallback for this case.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt, line 1377:
<comment>If SurfaceFlinger's mask and the device's `cpu_capacity` files are unavailable, `lowest` is null and this excludes no CPUs, leaving gamescope eligible to run on SurfaceFlinger's cores. Add a topology-based fallback for this case.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -1326,6 +1327,113 @@ object PowerManager {
+ runCatching { File("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$cpu/cpu_capacity").readText().trim().toInt() }.getOrNull()
+ }
+ val lowest = capacity.values.filterNotNull().minOrNull()
+ if (lowest == null || capacity.values.all { it == lowest }) emptySet()
+ else capacity.filterValues { it == lowest }.keys
+ }
</file context>
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P2: A stop can race with gamescopeAnswered(), letting this waiter reapply affinity after stop() releases it. Invalidate the session or synchronize/recheck lifecycle state before applying affinity.
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<comment>A stop can race with `gamescopeAnswered()`, letting this waiter reapply affinity after `stop()` releases it. Invalidate the session or synchronize/recheck lifecycle state before applying affinity.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ private void awaitConnected() {
for (int i = 0; i < START_POLL_TRIES && !stopped; i++) {
if (gamescopeAnswered()) {
GamescopeCommandQueue.setApplicable(sessionId, true);
+ PowerManager.applyCompositorAffinity("gamescope session start");
return;
}
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P3: The -1 return for an unavailable library is not an errno, yet the caller logs it as errno -1 for every thread. Return a real errno such as ENOSYS (38) so the contract stays "0 or errno".
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/TaskAffinity.kt, line 23:
<comment>The `-1` return for an unavailable library is not an errno, yet the caller logs it as `errno -1` for every thread. Return a real errno such as ENOSYS (38) so the contract stays "0 or errno".</comment>
<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+ val loaded = libraryLoaded ?: runCatching { System.loadLibrary("gnaffinity") }
+ .onFailure { Timber.tag("PowerManager").w(it, "libgnaffinity unavailable") }
+ .isSuccess.also { libraryLoaded = it }
+ return if (loaded) nativeSetTaskAffinity(tid, mask) else -1
+ }
+}
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P3: The NDK default hardcodes a macOS home path, so the script only works on one machine layout unless ANDROID_NDK is set. Require the variable explicitly so a missing NDK fails with a clear message.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/build.sh, line 6:
<comment>The NDK default hardcodes a macOS home path, so the script only works on one machine layout unless `ANDROID_NDK` is set. Require the variable explicitly so a missing NDK fails with a clear message.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# cp out/libgnaffinity.so ../../jniLibs/arm64-v8a/
+set -euo pipefail
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+NDK=${ANDROID_NDK:-$HOME/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/27.3.13750724}
+rm -rf build out; mkdir -p out
+cmake -S jni -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="$NDK/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake" \
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- Line 6: Update the NDK resolution in the build.sh setup around NDK to honor
ANDROID_NDK and the Android SDK environment variables, with a host-appropriate
fallback for NDK 27.3.13750724. Validate that the resolved NDK contains the
required CMake toolchain file and exit with a clear error before the rm -rf
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@app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopeServerComponent.java:
- Line 56: Serialize the compositor-affinity application in awaitConnected()
with affinity release in stop(), or use a session generation to prevent stale
waiters from applying affinity after teardown. Ensure the apply/release ordering
remains safe across a newly started matching process; a second stopped check
alone is insufficient.
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- Line 1281: Serialize the pin worker’s final generation check and
compositor-affinity apply with teardown using the same lock, so a stale worker
cannot apply affinity after release. In PowerManager, update the worker around
applyCompositorAffinity and releaseCompositorAffinity to check the session
generation and apply affinity atomically, and increment the generation inside
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Resolve the NDK for Linux hosts and validate it before cleanup.
The repository uses Ubuntu build hosts and ANDROID_HOME or ANDROID_SDK_ROOT, but this script defaults only to the macOS SDK path. A Linux user can follow the documented rebuild instructions with the required NDK installed and still pass a nonexistent toolchain path to CMake. CMake then stops before the ls command. Validate the toolchain before deleting existing build output.
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--- "a/app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/build.sh"+++ "b/app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/build.sh"@@ -3,8 +3,22 @@
# cp out/libgnaffinity.so ../../jniLibs/arm64-v8a/
set -euo pipefail
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
-NDK=${ANDROID_NDK:-$HOME/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/27.3.13750724}+if [ -n "${ANDROID_NDK:-}" ]; then+ NDK="$ANDROID_NDK"+elif [ -n "${ANDROID_HOME:-}" ]; then+ NDK="$ANDROID_HOME/ndk/27.3.13750724"+elif [ -n "${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT:-}" ]; then+ NDK="$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/ndk/27.3.13750724"+elif [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ]; then+ NDK="$HOME/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/27.3.13750724"+else+ NDK="$HOME/Android/Sdk/ndk/27.3.13750724"+fi+if [ ! -f "$NDK/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake" ]; then+ echo "NDK 27.3.13750724 not found at '$NDK'. Set ANDROID_NDK to its path." >&2+ exit 1+fi
rm -rf build out; mkdir -p out
cmake -S jni -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="$NDK/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake" \
-DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a -DANDROID_PLATFORM=android-26 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=MinSizeRel \
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-ffile-prefix-map=$PWD=."
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Serialize affinity application with session teardown.
awaitConnected() can pass gamescopeAnswered() and pause before line 56. If stop() then releases affinity, the waiter still applies the compositor mask afterward. This can leave the ending session, or a newly started matching process, with stale session affinity. Synchronize the apply and release paths, or use a session generation and cancel stale waiters. A second stopped check alone is not race-safe. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Also applies to: 88-88
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56:
Serialize the compositor-affinity application in awaitConnected() with affinity
release in stop(), or use a session generation to prevent stale waiters from
applying affinity after teardown. Ensure the apply/release ordering remains safe
across a newly started matching process; a second stopped check alone is
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Serialize session invalidation with the pin worker’s final affinity apply.
Gamescope teardown does not call unpinGame(). GamescopeServerComponent.stop() releases affinity while the independent retry worker can still run. The worker can pass its last generation check before teardown and call applyCompositorAffinity(reason) after the release.
Use the generation as the session epoch, but perform the final generation check and compositor-affinity apply under the same lock used by teardown. Increment the generation inside releaseCompositorAffinity() before releasing the cores. This prevents an apply after the session release; incrementing the generation without this critical section does not.
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diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt
@@
@Volatile
private var gamePinGeneration: Int = 0
+ private val compositorAffinityLock = Any()
@@
- val generation = ++gamePinGeneration+ val generation = synchronized(compositorAffinityLock) {+ ++gamePinGeneration+ }
@@
- applyCompositorAffinity(reason)+ synchronized(compositorAffinityLock) {+ if (generation != gamePinGeneration) return@Thread+ applyCompositorAffinityLocked(reason)+ }
return@Thread
@@
- gamePinGeneration+++ synchronized(compositorAffinityLock) {+ gamePinGeneration+++ }
@@
@JvmStatic
fun applyCompositorAffinity(reason: String) {
+ synchronized(compositorAffinityLock) {+ applyCompositorAffinityLocked(reason)+ }+ }++ private fun applyCompositorAffinityLocked(reason: String) {
val cores = compositorCores()
if (cores.isEmpty()) {
Timber.tag("PowerManager").w("No cores clear of the display server, gamescope chain left alone ($reason)")
@@
@JvmStatic
fun releaseCompositorAffinity(reason: String) {
- val online = readCpuList("/sys/devices/system/cpu/online")- if (online.isNotEmpty()) placeCompositorChain(online.sorted(), reason)+ synchronized(compositorAffinityLock) {+ ++gamePinGeneration+ val online = readCpuList("/sys/devices/system/cpu/online")+ if (online.isNotEmpty()) placeCompositorChain(online.sorted(), reason)+ }
}
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at line 1281:
Serialize the pin worker’s final generation check and compositor-affinity apply
with teardown using the same lock, so a stale worker cannot apply affinity after
release. In PowerManager, update the worker around applyCompositorAffinity and
releaseCompositorAffinity to check the session generation and apply affinity
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Description
Gamescope sessions now hold the cap on the display's own vsync. Before this, they ran 1-3 % under it, and DXVK games with in-game VSync on ran at about half the rate. This PR goes together with:
flip-events-on-the-real-vsync-pr(gamescope pacing on the display's real vsync: Choreographer flip events, FIFO under a cap, present wait from wp_presentation GameNative/gamenative-drm#43);nice-via-rlimit-nice(android: A57 — nice -20 through RLIMIT_NICE, without CAP_SYS_NICE GameNative/gamescope#30).What was wrong
Measured on a Retroid Pocket 6, cap 60, 60 Hz:
MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE=mailboxmade the shim declare every frame mailbox to gamescope, so gamescope's limiter could not hold it.What it does
jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libgamenative_drm.sois rebuilt from gamenative-drmflip-events-on-the-real-vsync-pr: sha256d48e27cd…(bc30175e…in the APK after stripping). The daemon now:GamescopePayload.VERSION=20261102.1(the payload is listed below). The payload's shim now:vkWaitForPresentKHRfrom gamescope'swp_presentationfeedback, as Mesa does.The payload's gamescope gets nice −20 through RLIMIT_NICE (A57).
powercontrol/PowerManager.kt,TaskAffinity.kt,display/GamescopeServerComponent.java,cpp/gnaffinity+ prebuiltlibgnaffinity.sokeep gamescope, its Xwayland and the gndrm threads on the online cores minus SurfaceFlinger'sCpus_allowed_list(3-7 on the RP6).sched_setaffinityis allowed on any task of the app's uid.libgnaffinity.sosha25661272eb7…; source, build script and provenance are inapp/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity.Payload 20261102.1
gamescope-gamenative-20261102.1.tzst, 14295767 B, sha2565616837d976f3d4cfaaaa096529276d5f35b13f01d2ac161464c1418f7d365b4. It is 20261101.6 with two members replaced; every other member is byte-identical.bin/gamescopeb5b23f33b25a81a57720109109759963e1be1bf8e28d7a3cfc80fcd8f2684ec3nice-via-rlimit-nicea051351 (CI run 41394426789)lib/libadrenotools_gamescope.sob9aedd0103a542bf2772b1ae077dc11a82e021fd5ee29e72e1c14a3ad72ac171flip-events-on-the-real-vsync-prbin/Xwayland(unchanged)4dded8566661423ee3c91490523d96240c85906bd00e0774adc912df9dd38698Measured
Retroid Pocket 6 (Android 13, Adreno 740), gamescope, cap 60, 60 Hz mode, same scene per game, frames counted at SurfaceFlinger. Before = master with payload 20261101.6. After = this branch with payload 20261102.1.
SteamWorld Dig 2's remaining ~1 % of doubled intervals is not fixed here and is being investigated separately.
Behaviour changes to know about:
Test steps
Gamescope payload 20261102.1 ready, and the app'sfiles/gamescope/.payload.versionshould read20261102.1.gndrm-daemon: vsync: flip events on the display's vsync: source=choreographer-deadline period=… (59.9xx Hz, mode 60.000 Hz);vsync: check … publishes≈vsyncs late=0 … margin p10≈+3.0ms;gn-vkshim: present mode: declared=fifo … cap=60 … feedback=on presented=… discarded=0 fallback=0.No CAP_SYS_NICE; RLIMIT_NICE permits nice -20 …andNice -20 also applied to 5 thread(s)….PowerManager: Applied affinity 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (mask 0xf8) to gamescope (PID: …), Xwayland (PID: …), gndrm threads (TIDs: …)on the RP6. The core list follows SurfaceFlinger's mask on other devices.dumpsys SurfaceFlinger --latencyover 30 s reads the panel's rate. Turning in-game VSync on in a DXVK game (Dave the Diver) no longer halves it.Applied affinity … to gamescopeline;declared=mailbox lsfg=1.Recording
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#code-changes, I have discussed this change there and it has been green-lighted. If I do not have access, I have still provided clear context in this PR. If I skip both, I accept that this change may face delays in review, may not be reviewed at all, or may be closed.CONTRIBUTING.md.Summary by cubic
Gamescope sessions now hold the FPS cap on the display's own vsync instead of running just under it, and the compositor chain is moved off the cores SurfaceFlinger uses.
libgamenative_drm.soso flip events are stamped on the display's measured vsync (Choreographer, on SurfaceFlinger's latch grid) rather than a 60.000 Hz walk of the daemon's own clock.20261102.1: gamescope gets nice −20 via RLIMIT_NICE withoutCAP_SYS_NICE, and the shim declares FIFO to gamescope under a cap so the limiter is the cap, answeringvkWaitForPresentKHRfromwp_presentationfeedback.libgnaffinity.soplusTaskAffinity/PowerManagerchanges that pin every gamescope, Xwayland, and gndrm thread to the online cores minus SurfaceFlinger's mask (3–7 on the RP6), applied at session connect and on game pin, released at session end; no privilege needed since all threads run under the app's uid.Behavior changes to know about
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