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An unatlased external-texture primitive for GPUI, plus one small ListState addition. It exists for Cherry Pick's embedded browser: a Chromium off-screen frame is a live 1080p BGRA buffer that must composite inside the swap chain at 60fps, and routing it through the sprite atlas would evict every icon and glyph on screen on the first frame.

  • ExternalTextureSource / ExternalTextureBuffer: a producer (Chromium's paint callback) publishes frames; a renderer uploads only what changed and draws the cached texture. A page that has settled costs a draw call and no bandwidth (PERF-B04).
  • Renderer integration: wgpu (Linux and others) and Direct3D 11 create and cache one texture per source, with dirty-rect uploads, resize-driven recreation, and per-renderer acknowledgement. Metal keeps its CoreVideo path; paint_external_texture is documented as unavailable on macOS and records nothing there.
  • Window::paint_external_texture and PaintSurface/SurfaceContent carry the element's opacity through to both backends.
  • ListState::item_top_and_content_height reports an item's top and the content height, including list padding, treating unmeasured items as the mean known height.

Threading and correctness

  • The visit never holds the producer's lock: submit publishes an immutable Arc snapshot and with_frame clones it out, so a Chromium paint callback never waits for a GPU upload. a_visit_does_not_block_the_producer fails against a lock-holding implementation.
  • Acknowledgements are per renderer (ExternalTextureConsumerId), so the first window to draw a shared source cannot discard dirty regions the second one still needs. Dirty regions are the union since the oldest unacknowledged frame, and the list degrades to a full upload rather than growing without bound. A cached texture retires its consumer on drop, so a closed window, a pruned cache, or a recovered device cannot hold the union forever.
  • Frames past the device's texture limit are skipped with a log and no acknowledgement, instead of creating an invalid texture (wgpu) or failing the whole window's frame (Direct3D).
  • External textures use a CLAMP sampler on Direct3D (the shared sampler wraps, which is right for atlas tiles), and release_frame drops the spare allocation so a hidden pane does not keep a framebuffer.

Review

Two review passes, all fifteen threads answered and resolved.

  • First pass, eb92d59997: macOS no-op made explicit and loud, per-consumer acknowledgements (a shared source can no longer discard dirt the second window still needs), the producer lock removed from the visit, element opacity carried through, the Direct3D clamp sampler, the max-texture-size guard on both backends, and list padding in item_top_and_content_height. Two regressions are pinned by tests that fail against the code they replaced.
  • Second pass, 458d821a99: release_frame holds the state lock across the whole operation (no interleaving with a producer), a partial upload is never acknowledged (both backends report an outcome; a rejected region leaves the cache key and the dirt alone for a retry), regions are validated against the frame's own dimensions with checked arithmetic, a frame with nothing to copy is not counted as an upload, and the macOS CoreVideo path consumes the element opacity through the shader. The rustdoc link that could not resolve is gone.

Verification

  • cargo test -p gpui --lib 215 ✓, including the external-texture suite (23) and the list tests
  • cargo clippy -p gpui -p gpui_wgpu -p gpui_macos -- -D warnings clean; cargo check -p gpui_wgpu -p gpui_macos clean
  • Not run here: the Windows lanes (gpui_windows cannot be cross-compiled on the author's machine — its psm build script needs a Windows target), so the Direct3D changes are review-verified only. The fork's CI lanes are skipped on this PR.

Summary by cubic

Adds an unatlased external texture primitive so the embedded browser's Chromium frames composite into the GPUI scene without evicting the sprite atlas, and exposes item offsets and content height on ListState. macOS keeps its CoreVideo surface path; external textures are a no-op there.

New Features

  • Window::paint_external_texture draws caller-owned RGBA/BGRA frames from a dedicated GPU texture; the wgpu and DirectX renderers previously ignored PaintSurface and now composite these frames.
  • ExternalTextureBuffer provides double buffering, dirty-rect accumulation, and a generation that bumps on resize and forces a texture recreate; a settled page costs a draw call and zero bandwidth.
  • Dirty regions are acknowledged per renderer, so a shared source never loses uploads another window still needs.
  • ListState::item_top_and_content_height returns an item's top and the content height, treats unmeasured items as the mean known height, and mixes in the list padding to match ListState::scroll.
  • PaintSurface carries element opacity so a pane inside a faded ancestor fades with it; the CoreVideo shader and both external-texture backends multiply the fragment alpha by it.
  • A frame with no pixels to copy reports Reused instead of an upload, and a partial upload is never acknowledged, so a rejected region keeps its dirt for a later retry. Frames past the device's texture limit are skipped with a log instead of failing the window.

Migration

  • PaintSurface now carries a SurfaceContent enum instead of a CoreVideo image_buffer field; custom renderers that construct surfaces directly need to update.
  • Producers must call mark_uploaded from inside with_frame without taking the producer's lock, or the render thread deadlocks.

Written for commit 458d821. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features
    • Added support for displaying caller-provided external textures, such as embedded browser frames, directly in rendered scenes.
    • External textures support efficient updates, transparency, color-format handling, and dirty-region uploads across supported renderers.
    • Added list layout information for determining item position and total content height, including padding and estimated heights for unmeasured items.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of incomplete list measurements to provide consistent height estimates.
    • Improved validation and retry handling for incomplete or invalid texture updates.

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The pull request adds caller-owned external texture support across GPUI, WGPU, and DirectX. It updates surface content handling, adds buffered frame and dirty-region tracking, propagates opacity, and adds list height estimation for measured and unmeasured items.

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External textures and list measurement

Layer / File(s) Summary
List height estimation
crates/gpui/src/elements/list.rs
List summaries track unknown heights. ListState::item_top_and_content_height estimates item positions and total content height, including padding.
External texture contracts and buffering
crates/gpui/src/external_texture.rs, crates/gpui/src/gpui.rs
New public types define frame formats, source consumers, buffered snapshots, dirty regions, upload acknowledgements, cache keys, and update planning.
Surface content and window submission
crates/gpui/src/scene.rs, crates/gpui/src/window.rs
PaintSurface accepts pixel buffers or external texture sources. Window adds paint_external_texture.
WGPU external texture rendering
crates/gpui_wgpu/src/shaders.wgsl, crates/gpui_wgpu/src/wgpu_renderer.rs
WGPU samples external textures and distinguishes reused, complete, partial, and failed uploads.
DirectX and macOS rendering integration
crates/gpui_windows/..., crates/gpui_macos/...
DirectX compiles and uploads external texture shaders. macOS preserves pixel buffer rendering and applies surface opacity in the shader path.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Producer
  participant ExternalTextureBuffer
  participant Window
  participant Renderer
  participant GPU
  Producer->>ExternalTextureBuffer: submit frame and dirty regions
  Window->>Renderer: paint external texture surface
  Renderer->>ExternalTextureBuffer: with_frame
  Renderer->>GPU: recreate or upload dirty regions
  Renderer->>ExternalTextureBuffer: mark_uploaded_for on complete upload
  Renderer->>GPU: draw external texture quad
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Review follow-ups on the external texture primitive, all seven threads
from the PR:

- The visit no longer holds the producer's lock. `submit` publishes an
  immutable `Arc<ExternalFrame>` snapshot and `with_frame` clones it out
  before calling the visitor, so a Chromium paint callback never waits for
  a GPU upload. `a_visit_does_not_block_the_producer` fails against the
  previous implementation.
- Acknowledgements are per renderer. `ExternalTextureConsumerId` plus a
  per-consumer table means the first window to draw a shared source can no
  longer discard dirty regions the second one still needs;
  `mark_uploaded_for` defaults to `mark_uploaded`, so a single-consumer
  source keeps the simpler contract. A cached texture retires its consumer
  on drop, so a closed window, a pruned cache or a recovered device cannot
  hold the dirty union forever.
- `release_frame` drops the spare allocation as well: a hidden pane must
  not keep an 8 MB framebuffer alive, which is the point of the call.
- `paint_external_texture` is documented as unavailable on macOS, records
  nothing there, warns once, and still runs the paint-phase debug assert.
  Metal keeps the CoreVideo surface path.
- `PaintSurface` carries the element's opacity, and both external-texture
  backends feed it to their shader instead of hardcoding 1.0, so a pane
  inside a faded ancestor fades with it.
- DirectX binds a dedicated CLAMP sampler for external textures; the
  shared sampler wraps, which bleeds the opposite edge into a page drawn
  at a size other than its texture.
- Both backends skip a frame past the device's texture limit with a log
  and no acknowledgement, instead of creating an invalid texture (wgpu) or
  failing the whole window's frame (Direct3D).
- `ListState::item_top_and_content_height` adds the list padding to both
  the item top and the content height, matching where `List` places the
  first item and the height it scrolls.

The mirrored sequence counter is stored under the state lock so two
producers cannot write it out of order, and the staging copy no longer
memSets every byte it is about to overwrite.
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The eight threads from the second review round:

- `release_frame` now holds the state lock while it clears the frame, the
  spare allocation, the consumer table and the mirrored sequence, so a
  producer cannot publish between those steps. `state` is taken first and
  is the only lock ever held while acquiring another, which is the
  invariant the comment now states.
- A partial upload is never acknowledged. Both backends report an
  `ExternalTextureUpload` outcome; a region rejected by the bounds checks
  leaves the cache key untouched and the frame unacknowledged, so the
  producer keeps the dirt and a later frame retries it. Direct3D still
  draws the last complete texture instead of skipping the surface, and its
  buffer-span rejection now logs like the wgpu one.
- Dirty regions are validated against the frame's own dimensions and the
  byte span is computed with checked arithmetic on both backends, rather
  than trusting the caller's clamping.
- A frame with no pixels to copy reports `Reused`, not `Complete`: it is
  not an upload and must not reach the upload counter.
- The macOS CoreVideo path consumes the element opacity now: the instance
  struct carries it, the vertex shader forwards it, and the fragment
  shader multiplies the alpha by it, matching both other backends.
- `PaintSurface::opacity` documents that both surface paths consume it,
  and the `item_top_and_content_height` doc no longer links a private
  method (rustdoc flagged it).
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1 issue found across 7 files (changes from recent commits).

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<file name="crates/gpui_windows/src/directx_renderer.rs">

<violation number="1" location="crates/gpui_windows/src/directx_renderer.rs:125">
P3: The existing GPU-texture doc comment now attaches to `ExternalTextureUpload`, making its documentation misleading. Move that comment below the enum so it documents `CachedExternalTexture` only.</violation>
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/// the GPU. Acknowledging a partial upload would let the producer drop dirty
/// regions whose pixels were never copied, and nothing would ever resend them.
#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum ExternalTextureUpload {

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P3: The existing GPU-texture doc comment now attaches to ExternalTextureUpload, making its documentation misleading. Move that comment below the enum so it documents CachedExternalTexture only.

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<comment>The existing GPU-texture doc comment now attaches to `ExternalTextureUpload`, making its documentation misleading. Move that comment below the enum so it documents `CachedExternalTexture` only.</comment>

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@@ -116,6 +116,25 @@ struct ExternalTextureInstance {
+/// the GPU. Acknowledging a partial upload would let the producer drop dirty
+/// regions whose pixels were never copied, and nothing would ever resend them.
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+enum ExternalTextureUpload {
+    /// Nothing needed uploading: the cached texture already held this frame, or
+    /// the frame had no pixels to copy. Not an upload, so not acknowledged.
</file context>

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