Re: [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: Remove the per-ring write list

Chris Wilson
2012-07-13T08:53:47Z

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:49:48 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> No. Because by the time the previous breadcrumb has been seen we are
> guarranteed to have flushed the gpu caches. So any wait in the future we
> have flushed the caches before returning.

Egg on face time.

The issue is on the waiter side, since we don't wait unless
pending_gpu_write is set. Tracking the last write seqno seems safest
when removing the gpu_write_list.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre