Re: [PATCH] drm: Reduce the number of retries whilst reading EDIDs

[Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>]

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On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 12:15 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Btw, clearly X does *not* cache the EDID results, at least not for
> this case. So the explicit xrandr example is probably pretty close to
> what wine does. Maybe the proper fix is to just make X.org force
> caching when clients do this (because it's definitely X that does the
> drm_mode_getconnector() thing - xrandr itself spends zero time on
> this, it just does an X request and waits for the result).

RANDR exposes two requests here for a reason.  We used to only have
RRGetScreenResources which always pulled data afresh.  We added
RRGetScreenResourcesCurrent to get the cached version.  If you want
xrandr(1) to use the latter say xrandr --current.  Arguably xrandr
should do things the other way around and require you to say --reprobe
or something.

Even then, the kernel should cache if it can.  And any competent
hardware has plug interrupts on DP and DVI, so we really should get this
right.

- ajax

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