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From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Cc: krh@freedesktop.org, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm: add support for monotonic vblank timestamps
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:08:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351066124.11117.51.camel@thor.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351018407-7009-3-git-send-email-imre.deak@intel.com>

On Die, 2012-10-23 at 21:53 +0300, Imre Deak wrote: 
> Jumps in the vblank and page flip event timestamps cause trouble for
> clients, so we should avoid them. The timestamp we get currently with
> gettimeofday can jump, so use instead monotonic timestamps.
> 
> For backward compatibility use a module flag to revert back to using
> gettimeofday timestamps. Add also a DRM_CAP_TIMESTAMP_MONOTONIC flag
> that is simply a read only version of the module flag, so that clients
> can query this without depending on sysfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>

drm_timestamp_monotonic should probably be a bool rather than an int.

Looks good to me otherwise, as does patch 1.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer           |                   http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-24  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-05 13:36 [RFC 0/4] drm: add raw monotonic timestamp support Imre Deak
2012-10-05 13:36 ` [RFC 1/4] time: export getnstime_raw_and_real for DRM Imre Deak
2012-10-05 16:14   ` Kristian Høgsberg
2012-10-09 10:25     ` Imre Deak
2012-10-05 13:37 ` [RFC 2/4] drm: make memset/calloc for _vblank_time more robust Imre Deak
2012-10-05 13:37 ` [RFC 3/4] drm: use raw time in drm_calc_vbltimestamp_from_scanoutpos Imre Deak
2012-10-05 13:37 ` [RFC 4/4] drm: add support for raw monotonic vblank timestamps Imre Deak
2012-10-05 13:55   ` Michel Dänzer
2012-10-05 13:59     ` Imre Deak
2012-10-05 14:14       ` Michel Dänzer
2012-10-05 14:21         ` Imre Deak
2012-10-05 22:18   ` Rob Clark
2012-10-05 23:41     ` Imre Deak
2012-10-06  0:09       ` Rob Clark
2012-10-06  0:49         ` Imre Deak
2012-10-07 20:33           ` Daniel Vetter
2012-10-05 23:07 ` [RFC 0/4] drm: add raw monotonic timestamp support Eric Anholt
2012-10-08 11:22   ` Imre Deak
2012-10-11 10:29 ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-10-11 11:21   ` Imre Deak
2012-10-11 10:32 ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-10-11 11:22   ` Imre Deak
2012-10-23 18:53 ` [PATCH 0/2] drm: add " Imre Deak
2012-10-23 18:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] drm: use monotonic time in drm_calc_vbltimestamp_from_scanoutpos Imre Deak
2012-10-24 23:05   ` Mario Kleiner
2012-10-25 10:28     ` Imre Deak
2012-10-25 19:45       ` Mario Kleiner
2012-10-23 18:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm: add support for monotonic vblank timestamps Imre Deak
2012-10-24  8:08   ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2012-10-24 11:40     ` Imre Deak

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