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Issue 22839016: Skeleton of DM (Closed) Base URL: https://skia.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
Patch Set: one last sync Created 7 years, 2 months ago
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+DM is like GM, but multithreaded. It doesn't do everything GM does yet.
+
+Current approximate list of missing features:
+ --mismatchPath
+ --missingExpectationsPath
+ --writePath
+ --writePicturePath
+
+ --deferred / --pipe
+ --rtree
+ --serialize
+ --tiledGrid
+
+
+DM's design is based around Tasks and a TaskRunner.
+
+A Task represents an independent unit of work that might fail. We make a task
+for each GM/configuration pair we want to run. Tasks can kick off new tasks
+themselves. For example, a CpuTask can kick off a ReplayTask to make sure
+recording and playing back an SkPicture gives the same result as direct
+rendering.
+
+The TaskRunner runs all tasks on one of two threadpools, whose sizes are
+configurable by --cpuThreads and --gpuThreads. Ideally we'd run these on a
+single threadpool but it can swamp the GPU if we shove too much work into it at
+once. --cpuThreads defaults to the number of cores on the machine.
+--gpuThreads defaults to 1, but you may find 2 or 4 runs a little faster.
+
+So the main flow of DM is:
+
+ for each GM:
+ for each configuration:
+ kick off a new task
+ < tasks run, maybe fail, and maybe kick off new tasks >
+ wait for all tasks to finish
+ report failures
+
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