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perf(preview): hand composed frames to the canvas as shared GPU textures - #975
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The preview was bound by the trip of its pixels to the canvas, not by the compositor. Each frame was read back from the GPU, copied into a Vec, cloned across IPC and uploaded to the canvas again: at 1080p the round trip took ~24 ms, so the pull loop drew ~20 of the ~57 frames composed per second, and the transport alone kept ~57 % of the renderer's main thread busy. On Windows' hardware backend the render thread now copies each composed frame into one of four shared D3D11 textures (NT handles) and publishes its slot. The main process imports it with Electron 41's sharedTexture API and sends it to the frame that asked; the renderer draws the VideoFrame on the canvas. Measured end to end with a real 1080p60 recording: 53 frames drawn per second, renderer main thread ~2 % busy, main process under 1 %, and the pixels byte-identical to read-back. Read-back stays the path everywhere else (macOS, Linux, software backend, no GPU compositing, OPENSCREEN_PREVIEW_READBACK=1), and a view falls back to it when an import or a send fails, or when its first shared frame lands as nothing (a texture Chromium could not open).
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Renderer
participant IPC
participant CompositorViewService
participant NativeAddon
participant ElectronSharedTexture
Renderer->>IPC: request compositor frame
IPC->>CompositorViewService: readFrame with senderFrame
CompositorViewService->>NativeAddon: readSharedFrame
NativeAddon-->>CompositorViewService: handle and frame metadata
CompositorViewService->>ElectronSharedTexture: import and send texture
ElectronSharedTexture-->>Renderer: shared VideoFrame and metadata
CompositorViewService-->>IPC: shared-frame receipt
IPC-->>Renderer: read reply
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change moves Windows preview frames to shared GPU textures and keeps read-back as the fallback. No specific defect was found. Windows hardware testing with Electron is still worthwhile before merge. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to Shared preview frames introduce cross-process lifetime dependencies. Frame identity checks and read-back fallback limit failures, but cleanup after interrupted delivery still depends on runtime behavior that needs confirmation. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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- Around line 1839-1843: In the render loop around `publish_shared`, retain a
pending-publication flag when `SharedPublish::NoFreeSlot` occurs, and retry
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Measured in the editor on a 280 Hz display, pulling shared frames on every animation frame meant 280 IPC round trips a second, idle or not: the main process sat at ~11 % of a core with nothing playing. Counting ticks also under-pulled read-back frames on 60 Hz, where a tick spent waiting on a slow round trip pushed the next pull a whole tick further. Pulls are now spaced by time: every 8 ms while shared frames keep coming (within 250 ms of the last one, so a pull that lands between two frames does not end the fast cadence), ~30 a second otherwise. In the editor: idle main process ~11 % -> ~2 %, all ~500 frames of the 8 s take still drawn during playback.
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🟡 Minor · Release the native slot when texture delivery fails after… · compositorViewService.ts:693-736
electron/native-bridge/services/compositorViewService.ts:693-736
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRelease the native slot when texture delivery fails after import.
When
sendSharedTexturerejects afterimportSharedTexturesucceeds,importedis defined, so the catch block does not callreleaseSharedFrame. If the send fails before Chromium receives the texture,allReferencesReleaseddoes not run. The native slot then remains held until reclaim instead of being released on the failure path.Call
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- Around line 292-294: Update the frame handling in useNativeCompositorView so
an RGBA read-back frame disables sharedTransport instead of only updating
lastFrameAt; keep updating lastFrameAt for shared frames so the pull interval
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- Around line 693-736: Update the catch path in sendSharedFrame to release the
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… fast cadence on read-back Two cases CodeRabbit found in the shared-texture transport: - A frame composed while every ring slot was still held was skipped. In playback the next one replaces it, but a frame composed once in pause (a seek, a parameter change) never reached the canvas until the next change. The render target keeps it, so it is now published as soon as a slot is free, without composing it again. - A view that fell back to read-back after a failed import or send kept the 8 ms pull cadence meant for shared textures, on frames that each cost a readback and a structured clone. A read-back frame now ends it.
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🟠 Major · Do not reclaim renderer-held slots. · shared_frames.rs:59-104
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDo not reclaim renderer-held slots.
When four deliveries hold all ring slots,
SlotBook::claimcan reclaim the oldest slot afterLOST_SLOT_AFTER.ring.writecan then overwrite a texture that Chromium still reads. Remove timeout reclamation. When no slot is available, callturn_offso the existingSharedPublish::Offbranch usesreadback_directinstead of retrying shared delivery.Suggested fix
- let lost = self.held.first().filter(|held| now.duration_since(held.since) >= LOST_SLOT_AFTER)?; - let slot = lost.slot; - self.held.remove(0); - Some(slot) + None- let Some(slot) = claimed else { - return SharedPublish::NoFreeSlot; - }; + let Some(slot) = claimed else { + return turn_off("toutes les cases sont tenues par Chromium".into()); + };🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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A slot whose release had not come back after a second was reclaimed and rewritten, while Chromium might still read that texture. A held slot is now never written: when every slot is held and one has waited a second for its release, the view falls back to read-back instead. A briefly full ring still waits for the next release, as before.
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Summary
The editor preview was bound by the trip of its pixels to the canvas, not by the compositor. On Windows' hardware backend, composed frames now reach the canvas as shared GPU textures through Electron 41's
sharedTextureAPI: no readback, no RAM copy, no pixels through IPC.crates/compositor/src/shared_frames.rs): the render thread copies each composed frame into one of four shared D3D11 textures (NT handles), waits for the GPU to finish the copy, and publishes its slot.SlotBooktracks the ready slot and the ones Chromium still holds; a slot whose release never came is reclaimed after 1 s.compositorViewService.readFrame): imports the texture, sends it to the frame that asked, and answers with a receipt.allReferencesReleasedhands the slot back.VideoFrametoelectronAPI.onCompositorFrame; the hook draws it.OPENSCREEN_PREVIEW_READBACK=1; a failed import or send; a first shared frame that lands transparent (a texture Chromium could not open, e.g. another adapter).Pixels are byte-identical to read-back (0 of 8 294 400 bytes differ). Measured on a desktop (Ryzen 7 5800X, RTX 4070 Ti); an iGPU laptop pays more for read-back, not less. Method and the 1650×928 run:
rendering-performance.md, Preview transport.Related issue
None: comes out of a preview-fluidity investigation. The sync fixes found on the way (a re-seek at every cut during playback, seeks ~10×/s inside speed regions) follow as a separate PR stacked on this one, since they need the native position this transport carries.
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No visual change: the same pixels, more of them per second.
Testing
cargo test --release -p openscreen-compositor --lib: 396 pass, including 6 newSlotBooktests.cargo test --release -p openscreen-compositor --test shared_frame_handoff: a second D3D11 device reopens the NT handle and reads exactly the composed pixels, after a rewrite and after a resize.npx vitest --run: full suite green (297 files). New tests incompositorViewService.test.ts(8) anduseNativeCompositorView.test.ts(5).tsc --noEmit(app and tests), Biome,npm run docs:check.useNativeCompositorView.test.tsdrives rAF by hand at 280 Hz: ~32 pulls a second idle, ~140 while shared frames come, back to ~30 once they stop. The three cadence tests fail with the old every-tick rule.window.__uiProbefor the UI, per-process counters for CPU):CPU in % of one core. On this display read-back still drew every frame, at the cost above; on a 60 Hz laptop it is the frame rate that drops (~20 fps at 1080p in the bench).
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