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gamescope: frames on the display's real vsync, FIFO under a cap, compositor and game placed by cluster, tuner counts repeated frames (payload 20261102.2) - #2320
This delivers GameNative/gamenative-drm#44 (gamescope frames on the display's real vsync, FIFO under a cap, present wait from wp_presentation). Supersedes #2319.
jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libgamenative_drm.so is rebuilt from gamenative-drm#44 at 5831f1e (real-vsync-fifo-present-wait, with the review fixes): sha256 9d3619681d9d5e382f78f2953c98ba1eff645334df8b7af8e88bc166ea774828 (5144ef9c… in the APK after stripping). The daemon stamps gamescope's flip events on the display's measured vsync, read from Choreographer and placed on SurfaceFlinger's latch grid minus a measured lead, as a KMS driver stamps the hardware vblank. Before, they came from a 60.000 Hz walk that slid against the 59.97-59.99 Hz panel.
The drm review fixes are in (daemon and shim from #44 at 5831f1e, payload 20261102.3). The re-anchoring device runs on the RP6 and the Odin 3 are pending.
GamescopePayload.VERSION = 20261102.3.
Compositor chain placed off the low-capacity cores, on PServer devices only (PowerManager.applyCompositorAffinity, GamescopeServerComponent, TaskAffinity + libgnaffinity.so, a 4 KB sched_setaffinity wrapper, source and build script under app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity). Placement runs only on devices with a PServer driver and its cluster grouping, whatever the container's power control toggle says. Dave the Diver's RP6 profile has power control off and needs the chain placed. Clock control stays behind the toggle; placement only reads the grouping and moves this app's own threads. A cluster is low-capacity when its kernel cpu_capacity is below 0.6 × the device's largest. When the driver only has max frequencies (no cpu_capacity), nothing is placed and the game rule is unchanged. The chain is pinned only when at least 4 cores remain outside the low-capacity clusters. Every thread of gamescope, Xwayland and the app's gndrm* daemon threads goes on all cores outside the low-capacity clusters. A device with no low-capacity cluster keeps the chain on all cores. On the RP6 (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2), the little cores 0-2 have about a third of the prime core's capacity, so the chain goes on 3-7. On the Odin 3 (Snapdragon 8 Elite: 6 cores at 792, 2 at 1024), no cluster is low-capacity, so the chain is not pinned. The chain is placed when the session connects, when power control starts, on every activity resume and after every game pin in a gamescope session, and it is released at session end only if it was placed. Same-uid sched_setaffinity, no privilege, no new setting; X11 sessions untouched. Measured need: on the shipping payload without it, the daemon's commit thread waited 0.1-8.6 ms for a CPU on cores 0-2 (shared with SurfaceFlinger, the composer HAL and audio), and 22 of 36 repeated frames per minute were frames ready on time but posted after the latch. One-variable A/B on the same build and scene (Dave the Diver, in-game VSync on, cap 60, 60 Hz, 60 s): without 59.37 fps / 22 latched-late / daemon late 41; with 59.92 fps / 0 latched-late / daemon late 0. A gamescope nice -20 patch alone and a daemon stamp change alone changed nothing (59.39 and 59.36).
Power tuner: repeated frames count against "steady"; game pinned to the clusters above the little one
What the tuner got wrong. On a Retroid Pocket 6 (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2: c0-2 little, c3-6 big, c7 prime) with SteamWorld Dig 2 under gamescope (cap 60, 60 Hz panel), the ClusterTuner treated 59-60 fps with a p95 of 17 ms as steady and kept trimming. It ended with the perf cluster c3-6 pinned at 499 MHz (min = max) and c7 capped at 1.25-1.7 GHz. Meanwhile PowerManager pinned the game to "all cores but the two slowest" (2-7), so the main thread usually ran on c2 (a little core) or a 0.5 GHz big core. There a frame costs about 11 ms, against 4.4 ms on the prime core, and the game repeats a frame every few seconds. Neither fps nor p95 moves enough to show it.
Change 1: repeated frames count against "steady".
In gamescope sessions without frame generation, the metrics collector counts repeats from the app's own frame ring (the one the HUD fps uses, fed by onFramePublished) over the last 10 s. A repeat is an interval longer than the expected one plus half a display period. The expected interval is display period × max(1, floor(refresh / cap)), gamescope's limiter rule, using the rate the session reports to the daemon. The count is passed to the tuner as repeatedFrameCount; X11 sessions and frame generation report none, so the tuner there is as on master. The window restarts when the cap or the rate changes.
Any repeat in the window blocks the next trim and holds back a pending warm-start state.
A repeat during the watch that follows a trim gives that trim back (and freezes the domain), the same undo an fps drop triggers.
Outside the watch, 2 or more repeats in 10 s step back the latest trim made this session; with no trim this session, nothing is raised. Step-backs are limited to one per 10 s window, so one burst steps back once. After 3 step-backs that did not cut the repeats in the window after them, repeats only hold for the rest of the session. A cap change drops a step-back in flight.
The fps and p95 inputs are unchanged.
Change 2: game core set off the low-capacity clusters.
Only in gamescope sessions on PServer devices (the game pin itself still runs only with power control on, as on master), the game is pinned to every core outside the low-capacity clusters (capacity below 0.6 × the device max, from PServerDriver's grouping): 3-7 on the RP6. X11 sessions keep "all cores but the 2 slowest" exactly.
A device with no low-capacity cluster (Odin 3) keeps "all but the 2 slowest". The same rule applies when fewer than 4 cores are outside the low-capacity clusters (for example 6 little cores + 2 big), or when there is only one cluster.
wineserver, winhandler, services and PulseAudio stay on the 2 slowest cores as before. The pin and winhandler affinity lines are unchanged.
Neither change adds a setting.
Measurement. RP6, SWD2, gamescope cap 60 @ 60 Hz, power control on, payload 20261102.2, same scene (mine entrance), 180 s settle + 90 s capture. Measured on 04c5e73, before the fixes after review (at cap 60 @ 60 Hz the repeat threshold is 25 ms in both).
Control (compositor affinity, old tuner)
Tuner change
SurfaceFlinger fps (90 s)
59.33
59.85
Repeats / 90 s
57 (42 missing game frames, 15 latched late)
11 (2 game, 9 latched late)
Game allowed cores
2-7
3-7
Main thread on c7 (10 s samples)
1 / 39
28 / 39
Perf cluster cap during capture
614 MHz floor
730 MHz (77 s), 614 (10), 499 (5)
Tuner
40 trims, 6 undos
26 trims, 13 undos (7 repeat-undos), 136 repeat-holds; 6 trims to perf 499 MHz, each stepped back after repeats
Caveat: the run with this PR started from the tuner state file the control run left behind (prime 1.0 / perf 0.61 GHz, against 2.73 / 2.32 GHz for the control), and the prime cap was still being trimmed during the capture.
Reference, power control off: 59.968 fps, 1 repeat in 90 s.
Open knobs.
Step-back threshold: 2 repeats per 10 s (chosen because power control off gives about 1 per 90 s, so 2 in one window rarely happens on its own) against 1 per 10 s. A single repeat already blocks trims.
The tuner can still trim the perf cluster to its 499 MHz floor before repeats bring it back. A perf-cluster floor during gamescope sessions would stop those dips.
Log lines to look for.
PServerDriver: CPU cluster capacities (cpu_capacity): {EFFICIENCY=…, PERFORMANCE=…, PRIME=…} at startup (max_freq when the kernel reports no capacity)
RP6: PowerManager: Game core set 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 low-capacity [0, 1, 2] left out (gamescope; clusters efficiency=[0, 1, 2]@… performance=[3, 4, 5, 6]@… prime=[7]@1024 (cpu_capacity), background=0, 1) and PowerManager: Applied affinity 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (mask 0xf8) to gamescope … (gamescope session start; clusters …)
Odin 3: PowerManager: Game core set 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (unchanged rule) no low-capacity cluster (gamescope; …) and PowerManager: no low-capacity cluster; gamescope chain left on all cores (…), with no Applied affinity … to gamescope line
RP6 with power control off in the profile: PowerManager: gamescope chain placed on 3-7 (power control off: placement only) (…) followed by the Applied affinity 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (mask 0xf8) line
No PServer driver: PowerManager: gamescope chain left on all cores (no PServer driver) (…) once per session, with no Applied affinity … to gamescope line
No cpu_capacity: PowerManager: cluster capacity unknown (max_freq only); placement skipped (…) and Game core set … (unchanged rule) cluster capacity unknown (max_freq only); placement skipped
6 little + 2 big: PowerManager: only 2 core(s) outside the low-capacity cluster [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; gamescope chain left on all cores
X11: PowerManager: Game core set 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (unchanged rule) (x11; …)
PowerManager: Applied affinity … (activity resume; …) after returning to the app (power control on, low-capacity cluster present)
PowerTuner: hold repeat-hold repeated=N in 10s step-back off: … once step-backs are off for the session
PowerTuner: hold repeat-hold repeated=N in 10s: …
PowerTuner: undo repeat-undo:<prime|perf|gpu> repeated=N in 10s: …
PowerTuner: undo undo:<domain> repeated=N in 10s (repeat during a trim watch)
repeated=N in 10s on every applied tuner line and on the periodic PowerMetrics line (repeated=- on X11 / frame generation)
"repeated":N in the tuner jsonl
Tests. 30 new unit tests, all passing (the newest: warm-start step-back and a 10-step warm-start floor fully stepped back under constant repeats in TunerRepeatedFramesTest, cap 120 on a 60 Hz panel in GameCoreSetTest):
TunerRepeatedFramesTest (9): trim on a clean render, hold on one repeat, undo on a repeat during the watch, one step-back per window, a single repeat holds, no raise without a trim this session, step-backs off after 3 that did not help, step-backs that help stay on, a cap change drops a step-back in flight
RepeatedFrameCountTest (9): thresholds for cap 60 @ 60 (25 ms), 60 @ 120 (20.8), 30 @ 60 (41.7), 45 @ 60 (25), 40 @ 120 (29.2), cap above refresh and no cap (one period); an extra vblank counts once and ±2 ms jitter counts nothing in each; counting only in gamescope sessions without frame generation (X11, LSFG x2/x3 off)
GameCoreSetTest (20), with the real layouts: RP6 with the profile's power control off → chain placed on 3-7; no PServer driver → no call; max-frequency capacities → no placement, game rule unchanged; 6 little + 2 big → chain not pinned; RP6 → chain 3-7, game 3-7 (gamescope) / 2-7 (x11); Odin 3 (6×792 + 2×1024) → chain not pinned, game 2-7 (unchanged rule); 4+4 (4×400 + 4×1024) → chain 4-7, game 4-7; 6 little + 2 big and a single cluster keep the unchanged rule. RP6 by max frequency (2016/3187 MHz = 0.63) is not low-capacity. Power control off: no sched_setaffinity call and no chain lookup (injected fakes fail on any call), and release after no placement makes no call. RP6 placement sends mask 0xf8 to every chain thread and releases with 0xff. The tuner target equals the cap on X11 for every cap and panel rate.
TunerMasterEquivalenceTest (1): master's TunerDecisionEngine is copied verbatim into the test sources. 200 seeded sessions × 600 cycles (all 4 strategies, cap changes, releaseHolds, warm starts noted) without repeats decide identically to master on every cycle (action, domain, steps, reason, steady count, frozen set). A one-word change to a reason string makes it fail.
Payload 20261102.3
gamescope-gamenative-20261102.3.tzst, 14295744 B, sha256 d102d40b4b747e1653b4437c5d43f89679c4e8ffb8e0ad9526710d6d1951a4ff. It is uploaded and verified on both CDN hosts. It is 20261101.6 with only the shim replaced; every other member is byte-identical.
it 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;
it answers vkWaitForPresentKHR from gamescope's wp_presentation feedback, as Mesa does, instead of from the buffer release a vblank later.
Measured
Retroid Pocket 6 (Android 13, Adreno 740), gamescope, cap 60, 60 Hz mode, same scene per game, frames counted at SurfaceFlinger.
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
95 % of vsyncs got a new frame
98.8 %
SteamWorld Dig 2 (GL)
57.1 fps (periodic drop zones)
59.66, drop zones gone
Caveat: the "after" runs also carried extras that are not in this PR: a daemon timing-diagnostics commit, a gamescope priority patch and a compositor CPU-affinity change. The drm commits delivered here are the ones that moved these numbers. SteamWorld Dig 2's remaining ~1 % of doubled intervals is not fixed here.
Behaviour changes
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.
Core placement happens only on devices with a PServer driver and its cluster grouping, whatever the container's power control toggle; clock control stays behind the toggle. A cluster is low-capacity when its cpu_capacity is below 0.6 × the device max. With only max frequencies (no cpu_capacity) nothing is placed and the game rule is unchanged (cluster capacity unknown (max_freq only); placement skipped).
Game core set (gamescope sessions; applied when the game is pinned, which needs power control on as on master): every core outside the low-capacity clusters. RP6: 3-7 (was 2-7). 4+4 phone with littles at about 400 of 1024: 4-7. Odin 3 (6 × 792 + 2 × 1024): no low-capacity cluster, so it keeps "all but the 2 slowest" (2-7), logged (unchanged rule). The same applies when fewer than 4 cores remain or there is a single cluster. X11 sessions are unchanged.
Compositor chain (gamescope sessions, PServer devices, power control on or off): every core outside the low-capacity clusters, when at least 4 remain. RP6: 3-7. 4+4: 4-7. Odin 3: not pinned (no low-capacity cluster; gamescope chain left on all cores). 6 little + 2 big: not pinned. It is placed again on power control start, on activity resume and after every game pin, and released at session end only if it was placed.
Devices without power control (no PServer driver): nothing changes except the display-side fixes (vsync-stamped flip events, FIFO under a cap, present wait). There are no sched_setaffinity calls; the game pin and the tuner run as on master. On a PServer device with the toggle off, only the chain placement is added. Clocks, game pin and tuner stay as on master.
Tuner (gamescope sessions without frame generation): any repeated frame in the last 10 s blocks trims and warm-start caps; 2 or more step back the latest trim this session (warm-start caps count as trims), at most once per 10 s, until 3 step-backs have failed to cut repeats. Games that stutter on their own therefore run with fewer trims (more power) than before. X11 and frame-generation sessions tune as on master. Under gamescope the tuners aim for min(cap, panel rate).
First launch after the update re-downloads the whole gamescope payload (20261102.3, 14.3 MB); offline, a gamescope session cannot start until it has.
Fixes after review
Repeat definition no longer assumes cap = refresh: expected interval = display period × max(1, floor(refresh / cap)), repeat = more than half a display period above it. Fixes false repeats at caps 45/50/55 on 60 Hz and missed repeats at cap 30 @ 60, 60 @ 120 and 40 @ 120.
Repeats are counted only in gamescope sessions without frame generation; X11 and LSFG sessions tune as on master.
A repeat step-back only undoes trims made this session (no raise fallback); 3 step-backs that did not cut the repeats turn step-backs off for the session (the hold stays); a cap or rate change restarts the repeat window and drops a step-back in flight.
Cluster game core set fenced to gamescope sessions; the log line names the rule.
Compositor-chain guard: all cores, logged, when fewer than 2 cores are clear of SurfaceFlinger or the fastest cluster is left out (e.g. a 0-6 SurfaceFlinger mask).
Compositor placement re-applied on activity resume: a cpuset move resets the app threads' affinity before Linux 6.2.
The game re-pin places the compositor chain only in gamescope sessions (it ran after every pin, X11 included).
Warm-start caps enter the session's trim history when applied (most-trimmed domain stepped back first), so a state file left at the floor by the old tuner is stepped back by repeats instead of only held. Warm-start steps are exempt from the 3-ineffective cutoff: they keep stepping back, one per window, until the floor is gone or the repeats stop; trims made this session keep the cutoff.
Review Add glibc support #4: on the gamescope route the tuners aim for min(cap, panel rate); a cap above the panel rate no longer drives them to uncapped. The cap sent to gamescope and reported in telemetry is unchanged.
Core placement only on PServer devices (whatever the container toggle; clock control stays behind it), using PServerDriver's clusters with a capacity criterion (cpu_capacity below 0.6 × the device max; max-frequency-only capacities never place anything); the chain is not pinned without a low-capacity cluster (Odin 3) or with fewer than 4 cores outside it; SurfaceFlinger and /sys capacity lookups in PowerManager removed (PServerDriver reads cpu_capacity with its grouping).
Not addressed in this round: upcall jitter vs latch time (#10); warm start blocked by a single repeat (#11); stale gamescope PID selection (#12); restoring per-thread masks at session end (#13); CI rebuild of libgnaffinity.so (#14); offline payload fallback (#15).
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. On first launch, payload 20261102.3 downloads. In logcat, expect Gamescope payload 20261102.3 ready.
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, every 10 s: gn-vkshim: present mode: declared=fifo … cap=60 … feedback=on presented=… discarded=0 fallback=0.
Check the rate: dumpsys SurfaceFlinger --latency over 30 s reads the panel's rate. Turning in-game VSync on in Dave the Diver no longer halves it.
Regression check: frame generation x2 at cap 40 still produces 80, with declared=mailbox lsfg=1.
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Summary by cubic
Aligns gamescope's flip events with the display's real vsync instead of a fixed 60.000 Hz walk, switches gamescope to FIFO queuing under an FPS cap, and keeps the gamescope chain off the cores the display server uses. The power tuner also stops trimming into repeated frames, and pinned games now run only on high-capacity clusters.
Rebuilds libgamenative_drm.so from gamenative-drm real-vsync-fifo-present-wait: the daemon stamps flip events on the display's real vsync, read from Choreographer on SurfaceFlinger's latch grid.
Replaces the shim in payload 20261102.3: it declares FIFO to gamescope while a cap is set (so the cap is the limiter) and answers vkWaitForPresentKHR from wp_presentation feedback.
On any device with a PServer driver, pins every gamescope and Xwayland thread plus the daemon's gndrm* threads to all cores outside the low-capacity clusters (cpu_capacity below 0.6 of the device max) via libgnaffinity.so, applied at session start, power control start, activity resume and on a game re-pin, and reversed at session end. The placement does not gate on the power control toggle, only clock control does; capacities read as max frequency alone skip it. Nothing changes in an X11 session.
On a Retroid Pocket 6 at cap 60: Dave the Diver (DXVK, in-game VSync on) goes from 35.3 to 59.95 fps, SteamWorld Dig 2 (GL) from 57.1 to 59.66.
Behavior changes
A cap that doesn't divide the display's rate (e.g. 40 or 45 on 60 Hz) now runs at gamescope's next divisor rate (60).
Under a cap, frames queue FIFO in gamescope as on a PC; frame generation keeps its own path.
A cap above the panel rate is unreachable under FIFO, so the tuners aim at the panel rate in gamescope sessions; the cap sent to gamescope is unchanged.
The power tuner counts frame intervals half a display period or more above the expected vblank interval in the last 10 s. Any repeat blocks the next trim and fails a trim watch; two or more step the last trim back once per window.
Warm-start caps persisted by an earlier session enter the session's trim history, so repeats step them back like trims. A warm-start floor keeps stepping back until it is gone or the repeats stop; trims made this session stop after 3 ineffective step-backs.
In gamescope sessions with power control on, pinned games run only on clusters at least 0.6 of the device's max capacity (when those hold at least 4 cores), instead of all cores except the two slowest.
Written for commit 49e620d. Summary will update on new commits.
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Updates
Updated the Gamescope payload to version 20261102.3; the app’s readiness check recognizes this version.
In Gamescope sessions, the tuner now respects the panel refresh rate when setting its target FPS.
New Features
CPU allocation for the Gamescope compositor is managed during a gaming session and restored when the session ends.
Game core selection adapts to the device’s CPU cluster layout.
Performance tuning tracks repeated frames in Gamescope sessions and uses them to guide trimming and recovery decisions.
… payload 20261102.2
libgamenative_drm.so is rebuilt (e8d23581) from gamenative-drm
real-vsync-fifo-present-wait (#44): 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.
Payload 20261102.2 is 20261101.6 with only lib/libadrenotools_gamescope.so
replaced (f38fb02c), the shim from the same 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; SteamWorld Dig 2 (GL) 57.1 -> 59.66.
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The change adds native task-affinity support and uses it to manage CPU placement for Gamescope. It also adds repeated-frame metrics that affect tuner decisions. The Gamescope payload version changes to 20261102.3.
Changes: Gamescope affinity and CPU placement
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Native task-affinity support app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/*, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/TaskAffinity.kt
A JNI function sets task CPU affinity and returns a status. TaskAffinity loads the native library and exposes the call. The build script builds and strips the Android arm64 library. Provenance records the library’s build details and dependencies.
Select and apply CPU affinity app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt, app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/GameCoreSetTest.kt
PowerManager selects game cores based on CPU clusters and selects compositor cores based on online CPUs and SurfaceFlinger’s allowed cores. It applies affinity to Gamescope, Xwayland, and app DRM threads, and restores affinity to online CPUs. Tests cover core selection, compositor placement, and tuner FPS targets.
Wire affinity and refresh state into Gamescope app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopeServerComponent.java, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/PerformanceAutoTuner.kt
The Gamescope session applies compositor affinity after startup and releases it at shutdown. XServerScreen updates Gamescope-session and panel-refresh state. PerformanceAutoTuner uses the Gamescope-adjusted target FPS. GamescopePayload.VERSION changes to 20261102.3.
The metrics collector counts intervals above the slow-frame threshold within the repeat window and adds the count to each snapshot. Tests cover threshold calculation, interval counting, and when counting is active.
Use repeats in tuner decisions app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerDecisionEngine.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/ClusterTuner.kt, app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerRepeatedFramesTest.kt
The decision engine blocks trim qualification when repeats occur. At the configured count, it can undo a recent trim and start a cooldown. ClusterTuner passes repeat counts into decisions, gates warm-start application, and adds counts to logs and JSONL records. Tests cover repeat-related tuner decisions.
Gamescope can still contend with compositor or reserved CPUs, reapply state after shutdown, and make incorrect tuning decisions during repeated frames. Address these risks before merging.
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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)
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6 issues found across 8 files (changes from recent commits).
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<file name="app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/build.sh">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/build.sh:6">
P3: This reads the NDK override from `ANDROID_NDK`, but the rest of the repo documents and uses `ANDROID_NDK_HOME`. A developer who sets `ANDROID_NDK_HOME` as the README describes gets the default path silently. Read `ANDROID_NDK_HOME` here, with `ANDROID_NDK` as a fallback if you want to keep it.</violation>
</file>
<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` sentinel for "library unavailable" is reported by callers as a failed syscall with `errno -1`, once per thread. Return a distinct unavailable state, or expose an availability check so the caller can skip the loop and log once.</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: This apply can run after `stop()` has already released the compositor affinity. `stopped` is only checked at the top of the poll loop, and `stop()` takes no lock. Guard the apply and the release with the same monitor, and re-check `stopped` inside it.</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/jni/gnaffinity.c">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity/jni/gnaffinity.c:17">
P2: The affinity bridge truncates CPU sets at 32 CPUs, so cores numbered 32 or higher are silently ignored. Use a dynamically sized `cpu_set_t`/bitset and pass its size instead of an `Int` mask.</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:1281">
P2: This asynchronous pin callback can outlive the session and re-affinitize the compositor after teardown. Invalidate `gamePinGeneration` during `PowerManager.stop()` and gate this callback on the active session before applying affinity.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt:1429">
P2: The `/proc` scan can select a stale or unrelated gamescope/Xwayland process, leaving the current session unpinned. Track the launched PIDs or restrict candidates to the current app UID and session ancestry.</violation>
</file>
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P2: This apply can run after stop() has already released the compositor affinity. stopped is only checked at the top of the poll loop, and stop() takes no lock. Guard the apply and the release with the same monitor, and re-check stopped inside it.
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<comment>This apply can run after `stop()` has already released the compositor affinity. `stopped` is only checked at the top of the poll loop, and `stop()` takes no lock. Guard the apply and the release with the same monitor, and re-check `stopped` inside it.</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;
}
</file context>
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P2: The affinity bridge truncates CPU sets at 32 CPUs, so cores numbered 32 or higher are silently ignored. Use a dynamically sized cpu_set_t/bitset and pass its size instead of an Int mask.
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<comment>The affinity bridge truncates CPU sets at 32 CPUs, so cores numbered 32 or higher are silently ignored. Use a dynamically sized `cpu_set_t`/bitset and pass its size instead of an `Int` mask.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+ (void) clazz;
+ cpu_set_t set;
+ CPU_ZERO(&set);
+ for (int cpu = 0; cpu < 32; cpu++) {
+ if ((unsigned) mask & (1u << cpu)) CPU_SET(cpu, &set);
+ }
</file context>
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P2: The /proc scan can select a stale or unrelated gamescope/Xwayland process, leaving the current session unpinned. Track the launched PIDs or restrict candidates to the current app UID and session ancestry.
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<comment>The `/proc` scan can select a stale or unrelated gamescope/Xwayland process, leaving the current session unpinned. Track the launched PIDs or restrict candidates to the current app UID and session ancestry.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -1326,6 +1327,113 @@ object PowerManager {
+ * PID of a process this app can see whose program is [binary], given as the first argument or
+ * the second behind /system/bin/linker64, or null when none runs.
+ */
+ private fun findOwnProcess(binary: String): Int? =
+ File("/proc").listFiles().orEmpty().firstNotNullOfOrNull { dir ->
+ val pid = dir.name.toIntOrNull() ?: return@firstNotNullOfOrNull null
</file context>
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P2: This asynchronous pin callback can outlive the session and re-affinitize the compositor after teardown. Invalidate gamePinGeneration during PowerManager.stop() and gate this callback on the active session before applying affinity.
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<comment>This asynchronous pin callback can outlive the session and re-affinitize the compositor after teardown. Invalidate `gamePinGeneration` during `PowerManager.stop()` and gate this callback on the active session before applying affinity.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -1278,6 +1278,7 @@ object PowerManager {
Timber.tag("PowerManager").i(
"Pinned $processName (PID: $pid) to CPUs ${gameCores.joinToString()} after $attempt attempts, verified=$verified ($reason)"
)
+ applyCompositorAffinity(reason)
return@Thread
}
</file context>
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P3: This reads the NDK override from ANDROID_NDK, but the rest of the repo documents and uses ANDROID_NDK_HOME. A developer who sets ANDROID_NDK_HOME as the README describes gets the default path silently. Read ANDROID_NDK_HOME here, with ANDROID_NDK as a fallback if you want to keep it.
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<comment>This reads the NDK override from `ANDROID_NDK`, but the rest of the repo documents and uses `ANDROID_NDK_HOME`. A developer who sets `ANDROID_NDK_HOME` as the README describes gets the default path silently. Read `ANDROID_NDK_HOME` here, with `ANDROID_NDK` as a fallback if you want to keep it.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# cp out/libgnaffinity.so ../../jniLibs/arm64-v8a/
+set -euo pipefail
+cd "$(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" \
</file context>
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P3: The -1 sentinel for "library unavailable" is reported by callers as a failed syscall with errno -1, once per thread. Return a distinct unavailable state, or expose an availability check so the caller can skip the loop and log once.
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<comment>The `-1` sentinel for "library unavailable" is reported by callers as a failed syscall with `errno -1`, once per thread. Return a distinct unavailable state, or expose an availability check so the caller can skip the loop and log once.</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
+ }
+}
</file context>
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
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sed -n '1,125p' app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopeServerComponent.java
Repository: utkarshdalal/GameNative
Length of output: 4094
Check stopped while serializing session cleanup and reapply.
If the waiter passes its loop check before stop(), a shared lock alone is not sufficient. stop() can reset the command queue and release compositor affinity before the waiter acquires the lock. The waiter can then apply both effects after cleanup.
Use the same lock for the post-connect block and stop(), and check stopped while holding that lock.
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Review comment at
@app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopeServerComponent.java at line
56:
Serialize the post-connect work in GamescopeServerComponent with stop() using
the same lock, and check stopped while holding that lock before updating
GamescopeCommandQueue or applying compositor affinity. Ensure stop() sets
stopped and performs cleanup under that lock so a waiter that passed its loop
check cannot reapply effects afterward.
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Exclude the CPUs used by SurfaceFlinger threads.
If a SurfaceFlinger rendering thread has a different affinity from its main thread, this process-status read misses CPUs where that thread can run. compositorCores() can then place gamescope on the same CPUs, defeating the intended preemption avoidance. Read and combine the relevant /proc/<pid>/task/*/status masks before selecting compositor cores. Linux CPU affinity is per-thread. (man7.org)
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around lines 1366 - 1369:
Update the SurfaceFlinger affinity lookup used by compositorCores() to read
Cpus_allowed_list from each thread’s /proc/<pid>/task/*/status, rather than only
the process-level status. Combine the thread masks so compositor core selection
excludes CPUs available to any SurfaceFlinger rendering thread.
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printf'%s\\n''--- setupXEnvironment call sites ---'
rg -n -F 'setupXEnvironment(' app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt
printf'%s\\n''--- caller-side environment setup ---'
rg -n -F -e 'setupXEnvironment(' -e 'startEnvironmentComponents()' -e 'guestProgramLauncherComponent' app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt | head -100
printf'%s\\n''--- route caller ---'
nl -ba app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/PluviaMain.kt | sed -n '2190,2240p'printf'%s\\n''--- XServerScreen launch/compose control flow around setup call ---'# The call-site line from the exact search is used for the following extraction in a second command if needed.
Repository: utkarshdalal/GameNative
Length of output: 8832
Script executed:
nl -ba app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt | sed -n '2490,2585p'
If the first surfaceCreated() callback arrives after gamescope connects, nativeStart("gndrm", ...) can create the server thread after the sweep. The thread can inherit the callback thread’s unrestricted CPU mask and run on CPUs excluded for SurfaceFlinger. If game pinning does not later succeed, the thread can remain there and be preempted at vblank. Apply the compositor affinity after daemon startup.
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[warning] 1403-1403: A File / FileInputStream / FileReader / FileOutputStream / FileWriter is constructed from a path built with string concatenation ("baseDir" + input) or string interpolation ("$baseDir/$input"). If any segment is attacker-controlled, a value such as "../../etc/passwd" escapes the intended directory (path traversal). Validate and canonicalize the resolved path and confirm it stays under the intended base directory (e.g. compare File(baseDir, name).canonicalFile against baseDir.canonicalFile), or reject inputs containing path separators and "..".
Context: File("/proc/$pid/task")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
(path-traversal-file-concat-kotlin)
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around lines 1392 - 1423:
Reapply compositor affinity after the `nativeStart("gndrm", ...)` daemon startup
completes, so `placeCompositorChain` sweeps the newly created `gndrm` thread and
applies the configured core mask. Keep the existing affinity sweep and failure
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… the little one
A capped game read 59.9 fps with a p95 of one period as steady while it repeated a
frame every few seconds on trimmed clocks (RP6, SteamWorld Dig 2: perf cluster at
499 MHz, 25 repeats in 70 s). The tuner now reads frame intervals over 1.5 target
periods in the last 10 s from the frame ring: any repeat blocks the next trim and
fails a trim watch, two or more step the last trim back once per window.
The game was pinned to all cores but the two slowest, which left it a little core
(11 ms per frame there against 4.4 ms on the prime core). It now runs on every
cluster above the lowest one when those hold at least 4 cores.
utkarshdalal
changed the title
gamescope: frames on the display's real vsync, FIFO under a cap (payload 20261102.2)
gamescope: frames on the display's real vsync, FIFO under a cap, compositor and game placed by cluster, tuner counts repeated frames (payload 20261102.2)
Nov 2, 2026
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6 issues found across 9 files (changes from recent commits).
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<file name="app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/metrics/RepeatedFrameCountTest.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/metrics/RepeatedFrameCountTest.kt:26">
P3: These tests only cover `sampleStride = 1`, but production passes `PowerManager.frameSampleStride`. Add a case with stride > 1, a case where the interval equals the threshold (not counted), and a case where `count` is smaller than the array size.</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/GameCoreSetTest.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/GameCoreSetTest.kt:6">
P3: The four cases pass by my trace of `clusterGameCores`, but the `all.size <= 2` early return and the no-cores case are untested. Add a case for a 2-core input (e.g. `listOf(listOf(0), listOf(1))`) and for empty input, so the fallback edge behavior is pinned down.</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerRepeatedFramesTest.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerRepeatedFramesTest.kt:109">
P2: This test never reaches the 'no trim this session' path: the clean warm-up loop already trims PRIME on cycle 5, so the repeat is handled by the active trim watch. Make trimming impossible during warm-up so the fallback is what runs.</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerDecisionEngine.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerDecisionEngine.kt:308">
P2: The repeat undo mutates tuner state before the hardware write succeeds. If `moveTo()` fails, the cap remains applied but this domain is already frozen and removed from history, so later cycles cannot undo or retune it; commit these state changes only after a successful apply.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerDecisionEngine.kt:330">
P2: The harvest path trims without checking repeats, and its watch ignores them. The PR says any repeat blocks the next trim and fails a trim watch, so a harvest trim during repeated frames breaks that contract. Gate harvest() on repeatedFrameCount == 0 or count repeats in isHarvestDegraded().</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:1112">
P2: This branch overlaps with the reserved background cores when the lowest-frequency cluster has only one core. `lowestCores(pserver, 2)` then takes the first core of the next cluster, and this return also includes that core. Require at least two cores in the lowest cluster before taking the clusters above it, so the reserved pair always comes from the lowest cluster.</violation>
</file>
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P2: This test never reaches the 'no trim this session' path: the clean warm-up loop already trims PRIME on cycle 5, so the repeat is handled by the active trim watch. Make trimming impossible during warm-up so the fallback is what runs.
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<comment>This test never reaches the 'no trim this session' path: the clean warm-up loop already trims PRIME on cycle 5, so the repeat is handled by the active trim watch. Make trimming impossible during warm-up so the fallback is what runs.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+ }
+
+ @Test
+ fun `repeats with no trim this session raise the domain a frame drop would`() {
+ val engine = TunerDecisionEngine()
+ repeat(TunerThresholds.STEADY_RENDER_CYCLES) { engine.decide(input(repeated = 0)) }
</file context>
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fun`repeats with no trim this session raise the domain a frame drop would`() {
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P2: The harvest path trims without checking repeats, and its watch ignores them. The PR says any repeat blocks the next trim and fails a trim watch, so a harvest trim during repeated frames breaks that contract. Gate harvest() on repeatedFrameCount == 0 or count repeats in isHarvestDegraded().
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<comment>The harvest path trims without checking repeats, and its watch ignores them. The PR says any repeat blocks the next trim and fails a trim watch, so a harvest trim during repeated frames breaks that contract. Gate harvest() on repeatedFrameCount == 0 or count repeats in isHarvestDegraded().</comment>
<file context>
@@ -277,6 +327,7 @@ class TunerDecisionEngine(
trimQualifiedCycles = 0
watchedDomain = domain
watchCyclesRemaining = tuning.trimWatchCycles
+ trimHistory.add(domain)
return decision(TunerAction.TRIM, domain, 1, "trim:${domain.key}")
}
</file context>
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P2: This branch overlaps with the reserved background cores when the lowest-frequency cluster has only one core. lowestCores(pserver, 2) then takes the first core of the next cluster, and this return also includes that core. Require at least two cores in the lowest cluster before taking the clusters above it, so the reserved pair always comes from the lowest cluster.
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<comment>This branch overlaps with the reserved background cores when the lowest-frequency cluster has only one core. `lowestCores(pserver, 2)` then takes the first core of the next cluster, and this return also includes that core. Require at least two cores in the lowest cluster before taking the clusters above it, so the reserved pair always comes from the lowest cluster.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -1084,11 +1085,31 @@ object PowerManager {
+ val clusters = clustersLowToHigh.filter { it.isNotEmpty() }
+ val all = clusters.flatten()
+ val aboveLowest = clusters.drop(1).flatten()
+ if (clusters.size >= 2 && aboveLowest.size >= MIN_GAME_CLUSTER_CORES) return aboveLowest
return if (all.size <= 2) all else all.drop(2)
}
</file context>
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if (clusters.size >=2&& aboveLowest.size >=MIN_GAME_CLUSTER_CORES) return aboveLowest
if (clusters.size >=2&&clusters.first().size >=2&&aboveLowest.size >=MIN_GAME_CLUSTER_CORES) return aboveLowest
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P2: The repeat undo mutates tuner state before the hardware write succeeds. If moveTo() fails, the cap remains applied but this domain is already frozen and removed from history, so later cycles cannot undo or retune it; commit these state changes only after a successful apply.
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<comment>The repeat undo mutates tuner state before the hardware write succeeds. If `moveTo()` fails, the cap remains applied but this domain is already frozen and removed from history, so later cycles cannot undo or retune it; commit these state changes only after a successful apply.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -258,12 +291,29 @@ class TunerDecisionEngine(
+ if (repeated >= TunerThresholds.REPEAT_UNDO_COUNT && repeatUndoCooldownCycles == 0) {
+ val domain = repeatUndoTarget(input)
+ if (domain != null) {
+ frozen.add(domain)
+ forgetTrim(domain)
+ repeatUndoCooldownCycles = TunerThresholds.REPEAT_UNDO_COOLDOWN_CYCLES
</file context>
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P3: These tests only cover sampleStride = 1, but production passes PowerManager.frameSampleStride. Add a case with stride > 1, a case where the interval equals the threshold (not counted), and a case where count is smaller than the array size.
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<comment>These tests only cover `sampleStride = 1`, but production passes `PowerManager.frameSampleStride`. Add a case with stride > 1, a case where the interval equals the threshold (not counted), and a case where `count` is smaller than the array size.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+ @Test
+ fun `each doubled interval is one repeat`() {
+ val ts = timeline(1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3)
+ assertEquals(3, countSlowIntervals(ts, ts.size, thresholdNs))
+ }
+
</file context>
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P3: The four cases pass by my trace of clusterGameCores, but the all.size <= 2 early return and the no-cores case are untested. Add a case for a 2-core input (e.g. listOf(listOf(0), listOf(1))) and for empty input, so the fallback edge behavior is pinned down.
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<comment>The four cases pass by my trace of `clusterGameCores`, but the `all.size <= 2` early return and the no-cores case are untested. Add a case for a 2-core input (e.g. `listOf(listOf(0), listOf(1))`) and for empty input, so the fallback edge behavior is pinned down.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class GameCoreSetTest {
+
+ @Test
</file context>
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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Apply repeat protection to harvest trims.
When FPS stays below the target and the bottleneck is maxed, decide() enters harvest() before it reaches this repeat check. harvest() can keep trimming another domain while repeatedFrameCount is positive. Its degradation check does not use the new count. Gate harvest qualification on repeats, and account for repeats during a harvest watch, so this path cannot continue trimming through the signal that blocks normal trims. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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around lines 302 - 305:
Update decide() so harvest() cannot qualify or continue a trim while
input.repeatedFrameCount is positive; also include repeat signals observed
during an active harvest watch in its qualification or cancellation logic.
Preserve the existing repeat protection for normal trims.
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Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- changed hunk and surrounding declarations ---'
git diff --no-ext-diff --unified=80 f5b3560b0f50c3423eb11f851db7c0b2a38295a3 04c5e73973fb59d68ab740f0bb1d189736f1abea -- app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt | sed -n '1,260p'printf'%s\n''--- relevant identifiers ---'
rg -n -F -- 'aboveLowest' app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt
rg -n -F -e 'lowestCores' -e 'MIN_GAME_CLUSTER_CORES' -e 'gameCores' -e 'setAffinity' -e 'applyGame' app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt
printf'%s\n''--- complete logical blocks around selection and affinity ---'
nl -ba app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt | sed -n '1010,1155p'
nl -ba app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt | sed -n '1155,1265p'printf'%s\n''--- callers of the selection/affinity operations ---'
rg -n -F -e 'applyCompositorAffinity(' -e 'releaseCompositorAffinity(' -e 'lowestCores(' app/src/main app/src/main/java | sed -n '1,220p'printf'%s\n''--- relevant base version ---'
git show f5b3560b0f50c3423eb11f851db7c0b2a38295a:app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt | nl -ba | sed -n '1010,1145p'
Repository: utkarshdalal/GameNative
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- PServer cluster implementation and declarations ---'
rg -n -F -e 'getCpuCoresByCluster' -e 'enum class CpuCluster' -e 'CpuCluster' app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol app/src/test test2>/dev/null ||trueprintf'%s\n''--- PServer source blocks ---'
rg --files app/src/main/java | rg 'PServerDriver|PowerManagerTest|PowerManager'forfin$(rg --files app/src/main/java | rg 'PServerDriver');doecho"--- $f ---"
nl -ba "$f"| sed -n '1,280p'doneprintf'%s\n''--- tests and direct clusterGameCores references ---'
rg -n -F -- 'clusterGameCores'. --glob '!build/**' --glob '!node_modules/**'||true
rg -n -F -e 'getCpuCoresByCluster(PServerDriver.CpuCluster' -e 'getCpuCoresByCluster(CpuCluster'. --glob '!build/**' --glob '!node_modules/**'||trueprintf'%s\n''--- game pin and diagnostic blocks ---'
nl -ba app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt | sed -n '1240,1320p'
nl -ba app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt | sed -n '1435,1480p'
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set -eu
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rg --files app/src/main/java | rg 'PServerDriver|PowerManager'forfin$(rg --files app/src/main/java | rg 'PServerDriver');doecho"--- $f ---"
nl -ba "$f"| sed -n '1,280p'doneprintf'%s\n''--- tests and direct clusterGameCores references ---'
rg -n -F -- 'clusterGameCores'. --glob '!build/**' --glob '!node_modules/**'||true
rg -n -F -e 'getCpuCoresByCluster(PServerDriver.CpuCluster' -e 'getCpuCoresByCluster(CpuCluster'. --glob '!build/**' --glob '!node_modules/**'||trueprintf'%s\n''--- game pin and diagnostic blocks ---'
nl -ba app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt | sed -n '1240,1320p'
nl -ba app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt | sed -n '1435,1480p'
Repository: utkarshdalal/GameNative
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- cluster identification and accessor ---'
nl -ba app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/drivers/PServerDriver.kt | sed -n '1475,1580p'printf'%s\n''--- game core tests ---'
nl -ba app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/GameCoreSetTest.kt | sed -n '1,180p'
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Exclude the reserved CPUs from the cluster-selected game mask.
When a PServer device reports a one-core lowest policy, aboveLowest includes the second CPU returned by lowestCores(). The game can then share that CPU with PulseAudio and background processes.
Suggested fix
--- "a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt"+++ "b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt"@@ -1109,7 +1109,9 @@
val clusters = clustersLowToHigh.filter { it.isNotEmpty() }
val all = clusters.flatten()
val aboveLowest = clusters.drop(1).flatten()
- if (clusters.size >= 2 && aboveLowest.size >= MIN_GAME_CLUSTER_CORES) return aboveLowest+ if (clusters.size >= 2 && aboveLowest.size >= MIN_GAME_CLUSTER_CORES) {+ return aboveLowest.filterNot { it in all.take(2) }+ }
return if (all.size <= 2) all else all.drop(2)
}
This leaves existing layouts unchanged when the lowest policy already contains at least two cores.
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IMPORTANT
Review the replacement and indentation, then test before committing.
Suggested change
if (clusters.size >=2&& aboveLowest.size >=MIN_GAME_CLUSTER_CORES) return aboveLowest
if (clusters.size >=2&& aboveLowest.size >=MIN_GAME_CLUSTER_CORES) {
return aboveLowest.filterNot { it in all.take(2) }
}
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Review comment at @app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt
at line 1112:
Update the cluster-selected game mask around `aboveLowest` to exclude the
reserved CPUs when the lowest policy has only one core, while preserving the
current selection for layouts where the lowest policy already contains at least
two cores.
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Repeats: a repeat is an interval longer than the expected one plus half a
display period, expected = display period x max(1, floor(refresh / cap)),
gamescope's limiter rule; the old 1.5 x cap period missed repeats at
cap 30 @ 60 and cap 60/40 @ 120 and called 45/50/55 caps on 60 Hz stuttery.
The rate is the one the session reports to the daemon. Repeats are counted
only in gamescope sessions without frame generation (null elsewhere, so X11
tuning is as on master), and the window restarts when the cap or the rate
changes.
Step-backs: only trims made this session are stepped back (no raise when
nothing was trimmed); after 3 step-backs that did not cut the repeats in the
window after them, repeats only hold for the rest of the session; a cap
change drops a step-back in flight.
Game core set: clusters above the little one in gamescope sessions only, X11
keeps all cores but the 2 slowest; the log line names the rule.
Compositor chain: stays on all cores, with the reason logged, when fewer than
2 cores are clear of SurfaceFlinger or the clear cores leave out the fastest
cluster; placed again on activity resume, since a cpuset move resets the
app threads' affinity before Linux 6.2.
Repeat definition no longer assumes cap = refresh: expected interval = display period × max(1, floor(refresh / cap)) (gamescope's limiter rule), repeat = more than half a display period above it. Fixes false repeats at caps 45/50/55 on 60 Hz and missed repeats at cap 30 @ 60, 60 @ 120 and 40 @ 120.
Repeats are counted only in gamescope sessions without frame generation; X11 and LSFG sessions tune exactly as on master.
A repeat step-back only undoes trims made this session (no raise fallback); after 3 step-backs that did not cut the repeats, step-backs are off for the session (repeats still hold); a cap or rate change restarts the repeat window and drops a step-back in flight.
The cluster game core set applies to gamescope sessions only; X11 keeps all cores but the 2 slowest. The Game core set line says (gamescope) or (x11: unchanged rule).
Compositor chain stays on all cores, with the reason logged, when fewer than 2 cores are clear of SurfaceFlinger or the fastest cluster would be left out (e.g. a 0-6 SurfaceFlinger mask).
Compositor placement is re-applied on activity resume, since a cpuset move resets the app threads' affinity before Linux 6.2.
27 unit tests cover the above (thresholds per cap/refresh with injected repeats and jitter, the gamescope/X11/LSFG gate, step-back limits, core sets for both session types, the compositor guard). Behaviour changes and the review items not addressed are listed in the description.
…he panel under gamescope
A warm start applies the caps an earlier session persisted, which can be the
floor (499 MHz on the RP6 perf cluster after the old tuner). They now enter
the session's trim history, most-trimmed domain newest, so repeats step them
back like trims made this session instead of only holding.
Under gamescope a capped game is FIFO on the display's grid, so a cap above
the panel rate cannot be reached and the tuners raised to uncapped chasing it.
The tuners now aim for min(cap, panel rate) on the gamescope route; the cap
sent to gamescope and reported elsewhere is unchanged.
In 23c2d78:
8. Warm-start caps enter the session's trim history when applied (most-trimmed domain first), so a state file left at the floor is stepped back by repeats instead of only held.
9. Review #4: on the gamescope route the tuners aim for min(cap, panel rate); the cap sent to gamescope and reported elsewhere is unchanged.
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1 existing issue remains and 4 new issues found across 10 files (changes from recent commits).
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<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/metrics/PerformanceMetricsCollector.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/metrics/PerformanceMetricsCollector.kt:260">
P2: This threshold reads `PowerManager.targetFps`, but an adaptive cap step in a gamescope session updates `targetFps` without updating gamescope's limiter. The repeat threshold and window can then follow a cap that gamescope is not applying. Derive the cap for gamescope sessions from the value passed to `GamescopeCommandQueue.setFpsLimit`, or make `applyFpsCapToEngines` set the gamescope limiter too.</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/metrics/FrameTimeRing.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/metrics/FrameTimeRing.kt:148">
P2: For caps 45, 50 and 55 at 60 Hz, this threshold drops to 25 ms, below the old 27-33 ms. Those caps now count more repeats, not fewer, which contradicts the commit's claim that it fixes false repeats there. Re-check the model for these caps against device data, or document why a 2-vblank interval is a real repeat at these caps.</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerDecisionEngine.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerDecisionEngine.kt:258">
P2: Disabling a cap bypasses the new cap-change reset, and re-enabling the same cap leaves the old repeat step-back in flight. Track the target change before the `targetFps <= 0` return.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerDecisionEngine.kt:258">
P2: The repeat-window reset tracks cap changes but not display-rate changes, so a refresh-mode switch can misjudge new repeats against the previous window. Include the refresh identity in the reset signal.</violation>
</file>
Requires human review: Auto-approval blocked because this review re-detected 1 unresolved issue already reported by Cubic.
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P2: For caps 45, 50 and 55 at 60 Hz, this threshold drops to 25 ms, below the old 27-33 ms. Those caps now count more repeats, not fewer, which contradicts the commit's claim that it fixes false repeats there. Re-check the model for these caps against device data, or document why a 2-vblank interval is a real repeat at these caps.
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<comment>For caps 45, 50 and 55 at 60 Hz, this threshold drops to 25 ms, below the old 27-33 ms. Those caps now count more repeats, not fewer, which contradicts the commit's claim that it fixes false repeats there. Re-check the model for these caps against device data, or document why a 2-vblank interval is a real repeat at these caps.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -124,10 +124,34 @@ private fun percentileMs(sortedDeltas: LongArray, size: Int, percentile: Double)
+ if (refreshHz <= 0) return 0L
+ val periodNs = 1_000_000_000.0 / refreshHz
+ val divisor = if (capFps > 0) (refreshHz / capFps).coerceAtLeast(1) else 1
+ return (periodNs * divisor + periodNs * 0.5).toLong()
+}
+
</file context>
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P2: The repeat-window reset tracks cap changes but not display-rate changes, so a refresh-mode switch can misjudge new repeats against the previous window. Include the refresh identity in the reset signal.
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<comment>The repeat-window reset tracks cap changes but not display-rate changes, so a refresh-mode switch can misjudge new repeats against the previous window. Include the refresh identity in the reset signal.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -244,7 +255,18 @@ class TunerDecisionEngine(
steadyCycles++
updateRenderAverages(input, slowRatio)
- if (repeatUndoCooldownCycles > 0) repeatUndoCooldownCycles--
+ if (input.targetFps != lastTargetFps) {
+ // A new cap re-scores the window: a step-back in flight can no longer be judged.
+ if (lastTargetFps != 0) {
</file context>
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P2: Disabling a cap bypasses the new cap-change reset, and re-enabling the same cap leaves the old repeat step-back in flight. Track the target change before the targetFps <= 0 return.
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<comment>Disabling a cap bypasses the new cap-change reset, and re-enabling the same cap leaves the old repeat step-back in flight. Track the target change before the `targetFps <= 0` return.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -244,7 +255,18 @@ class TunerDecisionEngine(
steadyCycles++
updateRenderAverages(input, slowRatio)
- if (repeatUndoCooldownCycles > 0) repeatUndoCooldownCycles--
+ if (input.targetFps != lastTargetFps) {
+ // A new cap re-scores the window: a step-back in flight can no longer be judged.
+ if (lastTargetFps != 0) {
</file context>
A persisted floor is the known-bad state, so stepping it back is not held
against the repeat signal: warm-start entries keep stepping back, one step per
window, until they are gone or the repeats stop. Trims made this session keep
the 3-ineffective cutoff.
libgamenative_drm.so is rebuilt (9d361968) from gamenative-drm#44 at 5831f1e,
which carries the review fixes. Payload 20261102.3 is 20261101.6 with only
lib/libadrenotools_gamescope.so replaced by the shim from the same head
(9e181cd7); gamescope and Xwayland are unchanged.
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2 issues found across 6 files (changes from recent commits).
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<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/PerformanceAutoTuner.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/PerformanceAutoTuner.kt:250">
P2: The clamp in `tunerTargetFps` also applies under frame generation, where the gamescope cap is disarmed and the output rate is limit x multiplier. That changes the tuner target there, although the PR says frame generation keeps its existing tuning. Exclude the frame-generation case from the clamp, or pass the frame-generation state into the target calculation.</violation>
</file>
<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerDecisionEngine.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/autotuning/TunerDecisionEngine.kt:336">
P2: This removes the first equal warm-start entry instead of the entry selected from the end of the history. With interleaved caps across domains, repeated-frame recovery undoes domains in the wrong order; remove the selected last occurrence by index.</violation>
</file>
Reply with feedback, questions, or to request a fix.
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P2: The clamp in tunerTargetFps also applies under frame generation, where the gamescope cap is disarmed and the output rate is limit x multiplier. That changes the tuner target there, although the PR says frame generation keeps its existing tuning. Exclude the frame-generation case from the clamp, or pass the frame-generation state into the target calculation.
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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/autotuning/PerformanceAutoTuner.kt, line 250:
<comment>The clamp in `tunerTargetFps` also applies under frame generation, where the gamescope cap is disarmed and the output rate is limit x multiplier. That changes the tuner target there, although the PR says frame generation keeps its existing tuning. Exclude the frame-generation case from the clamp, or pass the frame-generation state into the target calculation.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -247,7 +247,11 @@ class PerformanceAutoTuner(
if (!skipWarmupCycles && ++warmUpCycles < WARMUP_CYCLES) return
- val targetFps = PowerManager.targetFps.toDouble()
+ val targetFps = PowerManager.tunerTargetFps(
+ PowerManager.targetFps,
+ PowerManager.gamescopeSession,
</file context>
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P2: This removes the first equal warm-start entry instead of the entry selected from the end of the history. With interleaved caps across domains, repeated-frame recovery undoes domains in the wrong order; remove the selected last occurrence by index.
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<comment>This removes the first equal warm-start entry instead of the entry selected from the end of the history. With interleaved caps across domains, repeated-frame recovery undoes domains in the wrong order; remove the selected last occurrence by index.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -324,13 +328,15 @@ class TunerDecisionEngine(
+ val domain = entry.domain
frozen.add(domain)
- forgetTrim(domain)
+ trimHistory.remove(entry)
repeatUndoCooldownCycles = TunerThresholds.REPEAT_UNDO_COOLDOWN_CYCLES
repeatUndoBaseline = repeated
</file context>
Payload bumped to 20261102.3 and the daemon rebuilt from gamenative-drm#44 at 5831f1e, so the drm review fixes are now in (b9a041d).
Daemon libgamenative_drm.so: 9d3619681d9d5e382f78f2953c98ba1eff645334df8b7af8e88bc166ea774828 (5144ef9c… in the APK after stripping).
Payload gamescope-gamenative-20261102.3.tzst: 14295744 B, sha256 d102d40b4b747e1653b4437c5d43f89679c4e8ffb8e0ad9526710d6d1951a4ff. It is 20261101.6 with only lib/libadrenotools_gamescope.so replaced (9e181cd7…, from #44 at 5831f1e). gamescope (65d024fc…) and Xwayland (4dded856…) are unchanged.
Payload .3 is uploaded and verified on both CDN hosts, including its members from the served copy. 20261102.2 is withdrawn: deleted, and both hosts return 404.
The re-anchoring runs on the RP6 and Odin 3 are still pending.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Remove the selected history entry by position, not by equality.
repeatUndoTarget returns the last matching TrimEntry. trimHistory.remove(entry) then removes the first element that equals it. TrimEntry is a data class, so two entries with the same domain and warmStart are equal.
If the history is interleaved, for example [PRIME, PERF, PRIME], the step-back removes index 0 instead of index 2. The history becomes [PERF, PRIME]. The next step-back then raises PRIME again instead of PERF, which was the latest remaining trim. This breaks the "undo the latest trim" contract.
Interleaved histories occur with noteWarmStart, which interleaves entries on purpose. They also occur when harvest and normal trims are mixed.
lastIndexOf(entry) finds the same element that lastOrNull selected, because any later equal element would also match the predicate.
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at line 336:
Update the history removal in the repeatUndoTarget flow to remove the position
of the selected last matching TrimEntry, rather than the first equal entry.
Preserve the selection logic so undo continues to remove the latest matching
trim.
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…w-capacity clusters
Every core placement for gamescope (chain at session start, power control
start, activity resume, game re-pin, and the gamescope game core set) now
runs only when the profile enables power control on a PServer device.
Inside that gate a cluster is low-capacity when its cpu_capacity (or max
frequency when the kernel reports none) is below 0.6 of the device max,
read by PServerDriver with its cluster grouping. The chain goes on every
core outside those clusters and is not pinned when there are none; the
game in gamescope sessions likewise, with the 4-core guard, else the rule
on master. The SurfaceFlinger and cpu_capacity lookups in PowerManager are
gone; release only runs after a placement.
Tests cover the RP6, Odin 3 and 4+4 layouts, power control off making no
affinity call, and the tuner deciding exactly as master without repeats.
a1997fe: core placement only with power control on, off low-capacity clusters
Gate. Every core placement for gamescope now runs only when power control is active for the session: enablePowerControl in the profile and a PServer driver, the gate the game pin and the ClusterTuner use. That covers the chain at session start, power control start, activity resume and the game re-pin, plus the gamescope game core set. Without it nothing calls sched_setaffinity, a single line gamescope chain left on all cores (power control off) is logged per session, and the game pin is as on master. Release at session end runs only if the chain was placed.
Criterion. PServerDriver now reads each policy's cpu_capacity with its cluster grouping (and falls back to cpuinfo_max_freq when the kernel has none). A cluster is low-capacity below 0.6 × the device max. The chain goes on every core outside the low-capacity clusters, and is not pinned when there are none. In gamescope sessions the game uses the same set, with the 4-core guard; otherwise it gets master's "all but the 2 slowest", logged (unchanged rule). The SurfaceFlinger /proc and /sys capacity lookups in PowerManager are removed.
Layouts. RP6: chain 3-7, game 3-7 (gamescope) / 2-7 (X11). Odin 3 (6×792 + 2×1024): chain not pinned, game 2-7. 4+4 (4×400 + 4×1024): chain 4-7, game 4-7.
Tests. The whole powercontrol suite passes: 118 tests, 0 failures. GameCoreSetTest (17) uses the real layouts and injected affinity/thread fakes that fail on any call with power control off. The new TunerMasterEquivalenceTest copies master's TunerDecisionEngine verbatim. Over 200 sessions × 600 cycles without repeats, the current engine decides identically on every cycle, and the test fails on a one-word reason change. X11 tuner target = cap for every cap and panel rate.
Caveat. If a kernel reports no cpu_capacity, the RP6 littles are judged by frequency (2016/3187 MHz = 0.63), are not low-capacity, and nothing is pinned. Check the startup line CPU cluster capacities (cpu_capacity) on the test devices.
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<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/drivers/PServerDriver.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/drivers/PServerDriver.kt:1566">
P3: The source selection (cpu_capacity only when every policy reports it) and the per-cluster maximum have no test. Extract them into a pure function over policy capacities and cover the mixed-availability fallback to max_freq and the multi-policy PERFORMANCE max.</violation>
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P3: The source selection (cpu_capacity only when every policy reports it) and the per-cluster maximum have no test. Extract them into a pure function over policy capacities and cover the mixed-availability fallback to max_freq and the multi-policy PERFORMANCE max.
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<comment>The source selection (cpu_capacity only when every policy reports it) and the per-cluster maximum have no test. Extract them into a pure function over policy capacities and cover the mixed-availability fallback to max_freq and the multi-policy PERFORMANCE max.</comment>
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@@ -1547,6 +1557,28 @@ class PServerDriver(private val context: Context? = null) : PerformanceDriver()
+ * cpu_capacity. Capacity is the better measure: on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 the little cores run
+ * at 63 % of the prime core's frequency but have about a third of its capacity.
+ */
+ private fun identifyClusterCapacities(clusters: Map<CpuCluster, List<Int>>, policies: List<CpuPolicy>) {
+ val capacities = policies.map { policy ->
+ policy.cpuCores.firstOrNull()?.let { cpu ->
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…ol toggle
Core placement (the compositor chain and the gamescope game core rule)
now depends on the device having a PServer driver with its cluster
grouping, not on the container's power control toggle: Dave the Diver's
RP6 profile has power control off and needs the chain on 3-7. Clock
control stays behind the toggle; with it off the chain placement logs
'placement only'.
Capacities read as max frequency never place anything or change the game
rule. The chain is pinned only when at least 4 cores remain outside the
low-capacity clusters.
49e620d: placement gated on the device, not the container toggle
Device gate. The compositor chain and the gamescope game core rule now apply on any device with a PServer driver and its cluster grouping, whatever the container's enablePowerControl. PServerDriver is already created at app start from checkPServerAvailability() and identifies its clusters read-only at construction. Clock control stays behind the toggle.
Dave the Diver's RP6 profile (power control off) gets the chain on 3-7, logged gamescope chain placed on 3-7 (power control off: placement only).
A device without a PServer driver makes no call and logs gamescope chain left on all cores (no PServer driver) once.
The game pin itself still runs only with power control on, as on master.
Capacity source. When the cluster capacities come from max_freq (no cpu_capacity), nothing is placed and the game rule is unchanged: cluster capacity unknown (max_freq only); placement skipped.
Chain minimum. The chain is pinned only when at least 4 cores (MIN_GAME_CLUSTER_CORES) remain outside the low-capacity clusters. A 6 little + 2 big part gets no chain pin and master's game rule.
Tests: powercontrol suite 121/121. GameCoreSetTest has 20 tests, adding three new cases:
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<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt">
<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/powercontrol/PowerManager.kt:1650">
P2: The new Gamescope core rule is unreachable when power control is off: `pinGameWithRetry()` returns before `gamePinCores()` runs. Remove that early power-control gate so enabled game pinning can use the device-based Gamescope cores.</violation>
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P2: The new Gamescope core rule is unreachable when power control is off: pinGameWithRetry() returns before gamePinCores() runs. Remove that early power-control gate so enabled game pinning can use the device-based Gamescope cores.
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<comment>The new Gamescope core rule is unreachable when power control is off: `pinGameWithRetry()` returns before `gamePinCores()` runs. Remove that early power-control gate so enabled game pinning can use the device-based Gamescope cores.</comment>
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@@ -1607,18 +1642,14 @@ object PowerManager {
private fun gamePinCores(pserver: PServerDriver): List<Int> {
val clusters = coreClusters(pserver)
- val gamescope = gamescopeSession && powerControlPServer() != null
+ val gamescope = gamescopeSession
val set = clusterGameCores(clusters, gamescope)
- val session = when {
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Description
This delivers GameNative/gamenative-drm#44 (gamescope frames on the display's real vsync, FIFO under a cap, present wait from
wp_presentation). Supersedes #2319.jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libgamenative_drm.sois rebuilt from gamenative-drm#44 at 5831f1e (real-vsync-fifo-present-wait, with the review fixes): sha2569d3619681d9d5e382f78f2953c98ba1eff645334df8b7af8e88bc166ea774828(5144ef9c…in the APK after stripping). The daemon stamps gamescope's flip events on the display's measured vsync, read from Choreographer and placed on SurfaceFlinger's latch grid minus a measured lead, as a KMS driver stamps the hardware vblank. Before, they came from a 60.000 Hz walk that slid against the 59.97-59.99 Hz panel.GamescopePayload.VERSION=20261102.3.PowerManager.applyCompositorAffinity,GamescopeServerComponent,TaskAffinity+libgnaffinity.so, a 4 KBsched_setaffinitywrapper, source and build script underapp/src/main/cpp/gnaffinity). Placement runs only on devices with a PServer driver and its cluster grouping, whatever the container's power control toggle says. Dave the Diver's RP6 profile has power control off and needs the chain placed. Clock control stays behind the toggle; placement only reads the grouping and moves this app's own threads. A cluster is low-capacity when its kernelcpu_capacityis below 0.6 × the device's largest. When the driver only has max frequencies (nocpu_capacity), nothing is placed and the game rule is unchanged. The chain is pinned only when at least 4 cores remain outside the low-capacity clusters. Every thread of gamescope, Xwayland and the app'sgndrm*daemon threads goes on all cores outside the low-capacity clusters. A device with no low-capacity cluster keeps the chain on all cores. On the RP6 (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2), the little cores 0-2 have about a third of the prime core's capacity, so the chain goes on 3-7. On the Odin 3 (Snapdragon 8 Elite: 6 cores at 792, 2 at 1024), no cluster is low-capacity, so the chain is not pinned. The chain is placed when the session connects, when power control starts, on every activity resume and after every game pin in a gamescope session, and it is released at session end only if it was placed. Same-uidsched_setaffinity, no privilege, no new setting; X11 sessions untouched. Measured need: on the shipping payload without it, the daemon's commit thread waited 0.1-8.6 ms for a CPU on cores 0-2 (shared with SurfaceFlinger, the composer HAL and audio), and 22 of 36 repeated frames per minute were frames ready on time but posted after the latch. One-variable A/B on the same build and scene (Dave the Diver, in-game VSync on, cap 60, 60 Hz, 60 s): without 59.37 fps / 22 latched-late / daemon late 41; with 59.92 fps / 0 latched-late / daemon late 0. A gamescope nice -20 patch alone and a daemon stamp change alone changed nothing (59.39 and 59.36).Power tuner: repeated frames count against "steady"; game pinned to the clusters above the little one
What the tuner got wrong. On a Retroid Pocket 6 (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2: c0-2 little, c3-6 big, c7 prime) with SteamWorld Dig 2 under gamescope (cap 60, 60 Hz panel), the ClusterTuner treated 59-60 fps with a p95 of 17 ms as steady and kept trimming. It ended with the perf cluster c3-6 pinned at 499 MHz (min = max) and c7 capped at 1.25-1.7 GHz. Meanwhile PowerManager pinned the game to "all cores but the two slowest" (2-7), so the main thread usually ran on c2 (a little core) or a 0.5 GHz big core. There a frame costs about 11 ms, against 4.4 ms on the prime core, and the game repeats a frame every few seconds. Neither fps nor p95 moves enough to show it.
Change 1: repeated frames count against "steady".
onFramePublished) over the last 10 s. A repeat is an interval longer than the expected one plus half a display period. The expected interval is display period × max(1, floor(refresh / cap)), gamescope's limiter rule, using the rate the session reports to the daemon. The count is passed to the tuner asrepeatedFrameCount; X11 sessions and frame generation report none, so the tuner there is as on master. The window restarts when the cap or the rate changes.Change 2: game core set off the low-capacity clusters.
Neither change adds a setting.
Measurement. RP6, SWD2, gamescope cap 60 @ 60 Hz, power control on, payload 20261102.2, same scene (mine entrance), 180 s settle + 90 s capture. Measured on 04c5e73, before the fixes after review (at cap 60 @ 60 Hz the repeat threshold is 25 ms in both).
Caveat: the run with this PR started from the tuner state file the control run left behind (prime 1.0 / perf 0.61 GHz, against 2.73 / 2.32 GHz for the control), and the prime cap was still being trimmed during the capture.
Reference, power control off: 59.968 fps, 1 repeat in 90 s.
Open knobs.
Log lines to look for.
PServerDriver: CPU cluster capacities (cpu_capacity): {EFFICIENCY=…, PERFORMANCE=…, PRIME=…}at startup (max_freqwhen the kernel reports no capacity)PowerManager: Game core set 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 low-capacity [0, 1, 2] left out (gamescope; clusters efficiency=[0, 1, 2]@… performance=[3, 4, 5, 6]@… prime=[7]@1024 (cpu_capacity), background=0, 1)andPowerManager: Applied affinity 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (mask 0xf8) to gamescope … (gamescope session start; clusters …)PowerManager: Game core set 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (unchanged rule) no low-capacity cluster (gamescope; …)andPowerManager: no low-capacity cluster; gamescope chain left on all cores (…), with noApplied affinity … to gamescopelinePowerManager: gamescope chain placed on 3-7 (power control off: placement only) (…)followed by theApplied affinity 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (mask 0xf8)linePowerManager: gamescope chain left on all cores (no PServer driver) (…)once per session, with noApplied affinity … to gamescopelinecpu_capacity:PowerManager: cluster capacity unknown (max_freq only); placement skipped (…)andGame core set … (unchanged rule) cluster capacity unknown (max_freq only); placement skippedPowerManager: only 2 core(s) outside the low-capacity cluster [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; gamescope chain left on all coresPowerManager: Game core set 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (unchanged rule) (x11; …)PowerManager: Applied affinity … (activity resume; …)after returning to the app (power control on, low-capacity cluster present)PowerTuner: hold repeat-hold repeated=N in 10s step-back off: …once step-backs are off for the sessionPowerTuner: hold repeat-hold repeated=N in 10s: …PowerTuner: undo repeat-undo:<prime|perf|gpu> repeated=N in 10s: …PowerTuner: undo undo:<domain> repeated=N in 10s(repeat during a trim watch)repeated=N in 10son every applied tuner line and on the periodicPowerMetricsline (repeated=-on X11 / frame generation)"repeated":Nin the tuner jsonlTests. 30 new unit tests, all passing (the newest: warm-start step-back and a 10-step warm-start floor fully stepped back under constant repeats in
TunerRepeatedFramesTest, cap 120 on a 60 Hz panel inGameCoreSetTest):TunerRepeatedFramesTest(9): trim on a clean render, hold on one repeat, undo on a repeat during the watch, one step-back per window, a single repeat holds, no raise without a trim this session, step-backs off after 3 that did not help, step-backs that help stay on, a cap change drops a step-back in flightRepeatedFrameCountTest(9): thresholds for cap 60 @ 60 (25 ms), 60 @ 120 (20.8), 30 @ 60 (41.7), 45 @ 60 (25), 40 @ 120 (29.2), cap above refresh and no cap (one period); an extra vblank counts once and ±2 ms jitter counts nothing in each; counting only in gamescope sessions without frame generation (X11, LSFG x2/x3 off)GameCoreSetTest(20), with the real layouts: RP6 with the profile's power control off → chain placed on 3-7; no PServer driver → no call; max-frequency capacities → no placement, game rule unchanged; 6 little + 2 big → chain not pinned; RP6 → chain 3-7, game 3-7 (gamescope) / 2-7 (x11); Odin 3 (6×792 + 2×1024) → chain not pinned, game 2-7(unchanged rule); 4+4 (4×400 + 4×1024) → chain 4-7, game 4-7; 6 little + 2 big and a single cluster keep the unchanged rule. RP6 by max frequency (2016/3187 MHz = 0.63) is not low-capacity. Power control off: nosched_setaffinitycall and no chain lookup (injected fakes fail on any call), and release after no placement makes no call. RP6 placement sends mask 0xf8 to every chain thread and releases with 0xff. The tuner target equals the cap on X11 for every cap and panel rate.TunerMasterEquivalenceTest(1): master'sTunerDecisionEngineis copied verbatim into the test sources. 200 seeded sessions × 600 cycles (all 4 strategies, cap changes,releaseHolds, warm starts noted) without repeats decide identically to master on every cycle (action, domain, steps, reason, steady count, frozen set). A one-word change to a reason string makes it fail.Payload 20261102.3
gamescope-gamenative-20261102.3.tzst, 14295744 B, sha256d102d40b4b747e1653b4437c5d43f89679c4e8ffb8e0ad9526710d6d1951a4ff. It is uploaded and verified on both CDN hosts. It is 20261101.6 with only the shim replaced; every other member is byte-identical.lib/libadrenotools_gamescope.so9e181cd76b5a23e0b614dea39219ee0349efba23f8c1d20b0b5e2082b1d173b52026110208325831f1)bin/gamescope(unchanged)65d024fcee6af1b1f81b2281cc5223ee07615daa05aa8d9ecebe865526f8df69bin/Xwayland(unchanged)4dded8566661423ee3c91490523d96240c85906bd00e0774adc912df9dd38698The new shim does two things:
vkWaitForPresentKHRfrom gamescope'swp_presentationfeedback, as Mesa does, instead of from the buffer release a vblank later.Measured
Retroid Pocket 6 (Android 13, Adreno 740), gamescope, cap 60, 60 Hz mode, same scene per game, frames counted at SurfaceFlinger.
Caveat: the "after" runs also carried extras that are not in this PR: a daemon timing-diagnostics commit, a gamescope priority patch and a compositor CPU-affinity change. The drm commits delivered here are the ones that moved these numbers. SteamWorld Dig 2's remaining ~1 % of doubled intervals is not fixed here.
Behaviour changes
cpu_capacityis below 0.6 × the device max. With only max frequencies (nocpu_capacity) nothing is placed and the game rule is unchanged (cluster capacity unknown (max_freq only); placement skipped).(unchanged rule). The same applies when fewer than 4 cores remain or there is a single cluster. X11 sessions are unchanged.no low-capacity cluster; gamescope chain left on all cores). 6 little + 2 big: not pinned. It is placed again on power control start, on activity resume and after every game pin, and released at session end only if it was placed.sched_setaffinitycalls; the game pin and the tuner run as on master. On a PServer device with the toggle off, only the chain placement is added. Clocks, game pin and tuner stay as on master.Fixes after review
Repeat definition no longer assumes cap = refresh: expected interval = display period × max(1, floor(refresh / cap)), repeat = more than half a display period above it. Fixes false repeats at caps 45/50/55 on 60 Hz and missed repeats at cap 30 @ 60, 60 @ 120 and 40 @ 120.
Repeats are counted only in gamescope sessions without frame generation; X11 and LSFG sessions tune as on master.
A repeat step-back only undoes trims made this session (no raise fallback); 3 step-backs that did not cut the repeats turn step-backs off for the session (the hold stays); a cap or rate change restarts the repeat window and drops a step-back in flight.
Cluster game core set fenced to gamescope sessions; the log line names the rule.
Compositor-chain guard: all cores, logged, when fewer than 2 cores are clear of SurfaceFlinger or the fastest cluster is left out (e.g. a 0-6 SurfaceFlinger mask).
Compositor placement re-applied on activity resume: a cpuset move resets the app threads' affinity before Linux 6.2.
The game re-pin places the compositor chain only in gamescope sessions (it ran after every pin, X11 included).
Warm-start caps enter the session's trim history when applied (most-trimmed domain stepped back first), so a state file left at the floor by the old tuner is stepped back by repeats instead of only held. Warm-start steps are exempt from the 3-ineffective cutoff: they keep stepping back, one per window, until the floor is gone or the repeats stop; trims made this session keep the cutoff.
Review Add glibc support #4: on the gamescope route the tuners aim for min(cap, panel rate); a cap above the panel rate no longer drives them to uncapped. The cap sent to gamescope and reported in telemetry is unchanged.
Core placement only on PServer devices (whatever the container toggle; clock control stays behind it), using PServerDriver's clusters with a capacity criterion (
cpu_capacitybelow 0.6 × the device max; max-frequency-only capacities never place anything); the chain is not pinned without a low-capacity cluster (Odin 3) or with fewer than 4 cores outside it; SurfaceFlinger and/syscapacity lookups in PowerManager removed (PServerDriver readscpu_capacitywith its grouping).Not addressed in this round: upcall jitter vs latch time (#10); warm start blocked by a single repeat (#11); stale gamescope PID selection (#12); restoring per-thread masks at session end (#13); CI rebuild of
libgnaffinity.so(#14); offline payload fallback (#15).Test steps
Gamescope payload 20261102.3 ready.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.dumpsys SurfaceFlinger --latencyover 30 s reads the panel's rate. Turning in-game VSync on in Dave the Diver no longer halves it.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
Aligns gamescope's flip events with the display's real vsync instead of a fixed 60.000 Hz walk, switches gamescope to FIFO queuing under an FPS cap, and keeps the gamescope chain off the cores the display server uses. The power tuner also stops trimming into repeated frames, and pinned games now run only on high-capacity clusters.
libgamenative_drm.sofrom gamenative-drmreal-vsync-fifo-present-wait: the daemon stamps flip events on the display's real vsync, read from Choreographer on SurfaceFlinger's latch grid.20261102.3: it declares FIFO to gamescope while a cap is set (so the cap is the limiter) and answersvkWaitForPresentKHRfromwp_presentationfeedback.gndrm*threads to all cores outside the low-capacity clusters (cpu_capacity below 0.6 of the device max) vialibgnaffinity.so, applied at session start, power control start, activity resume and on a game re-pin, and reversed at session end. The placement does not gate on the power control toggle, only clock control does; capacities read as max frequency alone skip it. Nothing changes in an X11 session.Behavior changes
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