From c522d0e2dee3774884a731691a702126901a1a88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:59:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] vnc: throttle screen updates. (Gerd Hoffmann)

This patch makes the vnc server code skip screen refreshes in case
there is data in the output buffer.  This reduces the refresh rate to
throttle the bandwidth needed in case the network link is saturated.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6862 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
---
 vnc.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 vnc.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vnc.c b/vnc.c
index de9edea2d3..6d9321584b 100644
--- a/vnc.c
+++ b/vnc.c
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ static void send_framebuffer_update(VncState *vs, int x, int y, int w, int h)
 
 static void vnc_copy(VncState *vs, int src_x, int src_y, int dst_x, int dst_y, int w, int h)
 {
+    vs->force_update = 1;
     vnc_update_client(vs);
 
     vnc_write_u8(vs, 0);  /* msg id */
@@ -710,6 +711,12 @@ static void vnc_update_client(void *opaque)
         int saved_offset;
         int has_dirty = 0;
 
+        if (vs->output.offset && !vs->audio_cap && !vs->force_update) {
+            /* kernel send buffers are full -> drop frames to throttle */
+            qemu_mod_timer(vs->timer, qemu_get_clock(rt_clock) + VNC_REFRESH_INTERVAL);
+            return;
+        }
+
         vga_hw_update();
 
         /*
@@ -745,7 +752,7 @@ static void vnc_update_client(void *opaque)
             server_row += ds_get_linesize(vs->ds);
         }
 
-        if (!has_dirty && !vs->audio_cap) {
+        if (!has_dirty && !vs->audio_cap && !vs->force_update) {
             qemu_mod_timer(vs->timer, qemu_get_clock(rt_clock) + VNC_REFRESH_INTERVAL);
             return;
         }
@@ -789,6 +796,7 @@ static void vnc_update_client(void *opaque)
         vs->output.buffer[saved_offset] = (n_rectangles >> 8) & 0xFF;
         vs->output.buffer[saved_offset + 1] = n_rectangles & 0xFF;
         vnc_flush(vs);
+        vs->force_update = 0;
 
     }
 
@@ -1407,6 +1415,7 @@ static void framebuffer_update_request(VncState *vs, int incremental,
 
     int i;
     vs->need_update = 1;
+    vs->force_update = 1;
     if (!incremental) {
         for (i = 0; i < h; i++) {
             vnc_set_bits(vs->guest.dirty[y_position + i],
diff --git a/vnc.h b/vnc.h
index ce9aa49900..3ae95f3d74 100644
--- a/vnc.h
+++ b/vnc.h
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ struct VncState
 
     VncDisplay *vd;
     int need_update;
+    int force_update;
     uint32_t features;
     int absolute;
     int last_x;