TPEGFX/2017-Q4

GFX Topics(from high to low priority)

• bug 1388995 gfx Stability
• WR-nightly(Target at FF59)
  • Paint correctness (Top 50 sites)
  • Performance
  • Stability
• WebRender
• Animations(1371101)
• Retained DisplayList/SVG performance
• Tool/Build system improvement
  • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/gfxtool
• Paint correctness(buglist)

Goal

ChihYi Leu

• WebGL/ANGLE
  • (done)bug 1371190 - Update ANGLE to chromium/3229
    • landed
  • Plan an SOP for further ANGLE update
  • Investigate recently happened intermittent mochitest OOM fails
    • bug 1395805
      • Enable pagefile in our win7 vm can significantly reduce the fail rate
    • (done)bug 1412554
      • ANGLE overflow bug, landed and reported to Google
  • Find mails about windows 32-bit only intermittent webgl mochitest failures
    • Apply this filter in Gmail can list all notification from windows 32bit only failures.
      • from:(bugzilla-daemon@mozilla.org) subject:Intermittent windows7 OrangeFactor Robot -{macosx64 OR android OR linux OR arm OR windows8 OR windows10}

• WebRender
  • (done)bug 1393383 - Support non-uniform radius for box shadow
    • landed
  • (done)bug 1404158 - border-radius produces additional lines
    • landed
  • bug 1415814 - Dots can overlap in dotted corner borders.
    • studying

Daosheng Mu

• WebVR
  • VR process
    • bug 1392215 - [meta] Implement VR thread for WebVR
    • bug 1362578 - Move VRManager to its own process
  • Windows Mixed Reality devices support
  • Follow-up
  • Telemetry
    • Integrate with the internal dashboard, https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/dashboard/
• WebGL
  • bug 1405600 - WebGL2.0 gpu instancing crashes on Windows Nightly
• [TODO] WebVR backlog for Q4 or 2018
  • get perf/fps from Telemetry
  • video card from Telemetry
  • VR process with Rust
  • Think about gfxCrititalNote from crash-stat
    • sync after 8/15 WebVR meetup
• Others

Ethan Lin

• Layers-Free
  • Follow-up issues.
  • Improve SVG performance.
    • SVG fallback to one image
    • [TBD]SVG convert to WR cmds (wr-next)
  • Improve Fallback performance
• Talos for QR(Co-work with vincent)
  • investigate first paint
• [TBD] Tool support
• Retained Display List
  • Help the function default on on Nightly.

Jerry Shih

• WR improvement
  • wr-nightly related to video/crash P1/P2 bugs
• Stability
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/TPEGFX/Bugs#GFX_stability
  • 1406439 Video issue on FF 57
  • [TBD]Try to design the simplified model for device-reset flow.
• [TODO] mentor
• [TODO] Mini steps for A/V sync
  • Host a meeting to discuss
    • [11/3 DONE] Talked with John. The gecko already has a simple A/V sync mechanism. If we need a precise one, we should the system level A/V api or export the timer from audio level.
• [TODO] icecc at mac
  • TBD
• TODO (mid of Jan review first two itmes)
  • breackdown every item into one small bug(less than one month)
  • mentor topics
  • Team influence

Kevin Chen

• TDR Dashboard
• [TBD]Stability triage
• WR
  • Border basic properties
    • Address disabled try failures
  • Support P2 bugs

• TODO
  • breackdown every item into one small bug(between two week or less than one month)
  • frequently bugzilla updates

Morris Tseng

• Layers-free
  • Item conversion
    • Support css/svg filter
  • Fix wr-nightly bugs.
• WR improvement
  • Support some filter(css/svg) mode that use by some top site.
  • Imporve blur shader code performance.
  • Debugging tool.
• Table refactor
  • A efficient way to iterator column of table. (mentoring or implementing)
• QA support
  • Disable text layer and re-run tp5n.
• Sharing
  • GPU debugging technique.
• [TODO] Mentoring.

Peter Chang

• OMTA
  • Works in compositor side
    • [Done]Add sampleanimation(bug 1345017) ~ two weeks
    • [Done]enable WebRender OMTA by default(bug 1358437)
  • Support OMTA testing flow
    • move OMTA testing methods into share sub-protocol(bug 1316906)

Vincent Liu

• wr-nightly P1 bugs
  • Enable more tests for QR
• Study/Learning
• [TBD] work on specific topic, like correctness or performance
• TODO (senior engs)
  • breakdown every item into one small bug(less than one month)
  • mentor topics
  • Team influence
  • Solid gfx triage/crash improvement plan
    • Triage flow
    • Hold a triage meeting to go through triage.(Optional)

open qusetion

• TODO (senior engs)
  • breackdown every item into one small bug(less than one month)
  • mentor topics
  • Team influence