The PUNKTFUNK_PIN_CLOCKS clock pin (AMD power_dpm_force_performance_level=high / NVIDIA nvmlDeviceSetGpuLockedClocks) was armed once at host start and released only at host exit, so the box's clocks stayed pinned the whole time the host ran — even with no client connected.
Move the pin behind a box-wide refcount (gpuclocks::session_pin()) shared across both streaming planes (native + GameStream): it arms on the first live client and releases on the last disconnect. on_host_start() now only installs the process-scoped NVIDIA P2-cap application profile. No behavior change when PUNKTFUNK_PIN_CLOCKS is unset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nvclocks.rs -> gpuclocks.rs. PUNKTFUNK_PIN_CLOCKS=1 now also pins every
amdgpu card's power_dpm_force_performance_level to high for the host
lifetime (prior level restored on exit) — the measured AMD encode-
latency lever: VCN per-frame time doubles when a 60fps paced trickle
lets clocks sag (8 -> 4.4ms/frame at 1440p on the 780M with clocks
hot). Root-gated by sysfs ownership; non-root degrades to a logged
recipe (validated live on the AMD box). Opt-in stays deliberate:
box-wide power-management override, wrong on battery/Deck.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Chasing the 8ms submit at 1440p on the 780M: the sampled PUNKTFUNK_PERF
split (push/pull/send) shows desc+buffersrc at ~5us, hwmap-import+VPP
CSC at ~0.2-0.5ms, and avcodec_send_frame owning the rest — so neither
a VA-surface import cache nor CSC overlap would help. Two facts landed:
(1) async_depth>=2 in libavcodec's vaapi_encode is a structural
+1-frame latency (frame N's packet only materializes when N+1 queues;
measured 18ms vs 8.3ms p50 at depth 1) — depth 1 stays the default,
PUNKTFUNK_VAAPI_ASYNC_DEPTH exists for pixel rates beyond the ASIC's
serial budget, and poll() now does a bounded in-flight wait so a deeper
depth still ships the AU as soon as the ASIC finishes. (2) The residual
send_frame block tracks GPU CLOCKS, not the ASIC: ~8ms/frame at a 60fps
duty cycle vs ~4.4ms at 120fps pacing vs 3.5ms back-to-back (270fps CLI
benchmark, even at -async_depth 1) — the clock-sag fix lands in
gpuclocks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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