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From: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Reduce idle vblank wakeups
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:32:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321453932.1744.104.camel@atropine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321453253-20183-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>


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On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:20 -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The drm core currently waits 5 seconds from userspace dropping a request
> for vblanks to vblanks actually being disabled. This appears to be a
> workaround for broken hardware, but results in a mostly idle desktop
> generating a huge number of wakeups that are entirely unnecessary but which
> consume measurable amounts of power. This patchset makes the vblank timeout
> per-device rather than global, making it easy for drivers to override the
> behaviour without compromising other graphics hardware in the system. It
> then removes the delay on Intel hardware. I've tested this successfully on
> Sandybridge without any evidence of spurious or missing irqs, but I don't
> know how well it works on older hardware. Feedback not only welcome, but
> positively desired.

Looks good to me.  I'll test this on some other intel kit I've got
handy.  For the series:

Reviewed-by: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>

- ajax

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-16 14:20 [RFC] Reduce idle vblank wakeups Matthew Garrett
2011-11-16 14:20 ` [RFC 1/3] drm: Make drm_vblank_offdelay per-device Matthew Garrett
2011-11-16 14:20 ` [RFC 2/3] drm: Handle the vblank_offdelay=0 case properly Matthew Garrett
2011-11-16 14:20 ` [RFC 3/3] i915: Drop vblank_offdelay Matthew Garrett
2011-11-16 14:32 ` Adam Jackson [this message]
2011-11-16 17:03 ` [RFC] Reduce idle vblank wakeups Michel Dänzer
2011-11-16 17:11   ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-16 17:53     ` [Intel-gfx] " Andrew Lutomirski
2011-11-16 18:27     ` Mario Kleiner
2011-11-16 18:48       ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-17  0:26         ` Mario Kleiner
2011-11-17  2:19           ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-17  5:36             ` [Intel-gfx] " Andrew Lutomirski
2011-11-17  5:39               ` [RFC PATCH] drm: Fix off-by-one races on vblank disable Andy Lutomirski
2012-05-04 18:31 ` [Intel-gfx] [RFC] Reduce idle vblank wakeups Matthew Garrett

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