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From: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
To: Ian Romanick <idr@freedesktop.org>
Cc: "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] GPU reset notification interface
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:36:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1342629383.3590.35.camel@atropine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5006E312.3010103@freedesktop.org>


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On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 09:23 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 02:20 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > A few things:
> > - I agree with Chris that reset_in_progress should go, if userspace can
> >    sneak in and witness a reset event, we have a bug in the kernel. Since
> >    very recently, we actually have a few bugs less in that area ;-)
> 
> I'm operating under the assumption that, from user space's perspective, 
> resets are not instantaneous.  If resets are instantaneous, that may 
> change things.

Do they need to be instantaneous, or do they merely need to be
atomic-and-reasonably-quick?  Could just block new ioctl submission
until the reset completes.

- ajax

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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-17 22:16 [RFC] GPU reset notification interface Ian Romanick
2012-07-18  1:57 ` Ian Romanick
2012-07-18  7:06 ` Chris Wilson
2012-07-18  9:20 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-18 16:23   ` Ian Romanick
2012-07-18 16:36     ` Adam Jackson [this message]
2012-07-18 16:42       ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-18 16:55     ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-19  3:47       ` Ben Widawsky
2012-07-19 15:58       ` Ian Romanick

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