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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Thomas Hellström" <unichrome@shipmail.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
	"dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rt4: via DRM errors
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:21:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1132946515.20390.48.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132935863.3298.36.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 16:24 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-11-24 at 05:49 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > what kind of lock it is or what it's protecting

> It co-ordinates access between the X server and various 3D clients so
> that they don't step on each others drawing. A shared memory area is
> used to co-ordinate other things like clip lists and what context may
> have been stomped by another user if when you retake the lock you were
> not last holder.
> 
> Precisely what it protects is board dependant

OK.  So it's schedulable.

Any debugging advice for a DRI driver (radeon not via) that I suspect is
causing scheduling blips and audio dropouts due to bus greediness or
other rude behavior?  There seem to be a bunch of timeouts where it will
bit bang the hardware in a loop, should I try reducing these?

Lee


      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-25 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-24  4:53 2.6.14-rt4: via DRM errors Lee Revell
2005-11-24  9:52 ` Thomas Hellström
2005-11-24 10:44   ` Dave Airlie
2005-11-24 10:49   ` Lee Revell
2005-11-24 12:50     ` Thomas Hellström
2005-11-24 15:31       ` Jesse Barnes
2005-11-24 16:04         ` Thomas Hellström
2005-11-25 19:05         ` Lee Revell
2005-11-25 19:13           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-25 19:23             ` Lee Revell
2005-11-25 20:06               ` Alan Cox
2005-11-25 16:24     ` Alan Cox
2005-11-25 19:21       ` Lee Revell [this message]

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