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MaxsTechReview 8ee1cbe3eb Additional performance fixes (#87)
* perf: answer Turnip's zero-timeout KGSL timestamp polls without blocking

Turnip polls a timeline point with IOCTL_KGSL_DEVICE_WAITTIMESTAMP_CTXTID
and a timeout of 0, which KGSL reads as wait forever; Mesa does it under
a lock on every signalling submit, so vkd3d-proton, DXVK, gamescope and
Zink ran in lock-step with the GPU. The session preload now answers
those polls from the context's retired timestamp and passes everything
else to the kernel. Bannerlator measured a D3D12 demo at 614 -> 4335 fps
with the same answer in its Vulkan adapter. BL_NO_KGSL_POLL_FIX=1 turns
it off.

* perf: frame limiter, live panel refresh, opt-in GPU clock pin, cheaper cursor sync

- A per-mode frame limit (Steam and desktop settings, off by default):
  gamescope's -r, the compositor's buffer-release pacer, the display
  layer's frame-rate vote and a panel mode the cap divides evenly, as
  WinNative's per-shortcut limit does. BL_FPS was always 0 and the
  pacer's limit was never set.
- The compositor follows the panel's refresh rate when it changes
  mid-session instead of reporting the rate read at start. (WinNative.)
- Performance > GPU: hold the Adreno clock at its top through KGSL's
  power-control property, no root (Bannerlator's PerfGpuTurbo). Off by
  default; cleared when the session stops and at the next app start if
  a killed process left it set.
- The cursor image is copied across JNI only when its serial changes,
  not on every pointer move.

* perf: stop re-seeding every prefix every 5 s, and run the library helpers only on change

- bannerlator-seed-redists stamped its change check from a block that
  carried the current time, so it never matched: every prefix had ~32
  keys appended to system.reg on every beat. The stamp now comes from
  the names; Proton's prefix template is seeded too (date kept), with
  WinNative's built-in list until the client has the install scripts.
- The library beat runs the seeder every 15 s and steam-compat only
  when a directory it reads has changed, or once a minute.
- The client-core pin reads /proc itself and runs taskset -a only for
  new processes or ones that grew threads.
- The games watcher backs off after a failed ownership probe and does
  not probe while a game runs.
- The Proton launcher runs the newest ARM64 depot by build number, and
  PROTON_USE_PIPEWIRE defaults to 0. (WinNative.)

* perf: Mesa's database shader cache, and proot's tracer above the guest

- MESA_DISK_CACHE_DATABASE=1 for the session: the file cache opens a
  file per lookup and opens and renames one per store, each a proot
  stop; the database is opened once and used with pread/pwrite.
- proot's single tracer thread is raised to nice -6 (under the
  compositor's -8) two seconds after it starts, so the first guest
  process it forks keeps nice 0. setpriority() directly, not
  Process.setThreadPriority, which would also move its cgroup.
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