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From: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] drm/i915: wait render timeout ioctl
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:08:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120501110844.54e34526@bwidawsk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehr3rf7q.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net>

On Tue, 01 May 2012 10:19:53 -0700
Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:41:08 -0700, Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> > This helps implement GL_ARB_sync put stops short of allowing full blow
>                                   "but"?                           "blown"?
> 
> > sync objects.
> > 
> > Finally we can use the new timed seqno waiting function to allow
> > userspace to wait on a request with a timeout. This implements that
> > interface.
> 
> It looks like this actually lets them wait on a BO with a timeout.  I
> like it as an interface, but that's not what I expected from the commit
> message.  Waiting on a request sounds like passing a seqno back out to
> userland that they could wait on.

Yeah. Chris asked me to update the comments actually, and I forgot. I
will resubmit this patch with better comments in the not too distant
future.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-01 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-29 22:22 [PATCH 0/5 v3] timed BO wait Ben Widawsky
2012-04-29 22:22 ` [PATCH 1/5 v2] drm/i915: timeout parameter for seqno wait Ben Widawsky
2012-05-01  1:39   ` [PATCH 1/5] " Ben Widawsky
2012-05-02 21:47     ` Daniel Vetter
2012-05-03  4:32       ` Ben Widawsky
2012-04-29 22:22 ` [PATCH 2/5] drm/i915: make waiting trace events more useful Ben Widawsky
2012-05-01  1:40   ` Ben Widawsky
2012-05-02 21:12     ` Daniel Vetter
2012-05-02 21:22       ` Chris Wilson
2012-05-02 21:36         ` Daniel Vetter
2012-05-02 21:56           ` Daniel Vetter
2012-04-29 22:22 ` [PATCH 3/5 v2] drm/i915: extract some common olr+wedge code Ben Widawsky
2012-05-02 21:08   ` Daniel Vetter
2012-04-29 22:22 ` [PATCH 4/5 v3] drm/i915: wait render timeout ioctl Ben Widawsky
2012-05-01  1:41   ` [PATCH 4/5] " Ben Widawsky
2012-05-01 17:19     ` Eric Anholt
2012-05-01 18:08       ` Ben Widawsky [this message]
2012-05-02 21:26     ` Daniel Vetter
2012-04-29 22:22 ` [PATCH 5/5] drm/i915: s/i915_wait_reqest/i915_wait_seqno/g Ben Widawsky
2012-04-29 22:22 ` [PATCH] intel: add a timed wait function Ben Widawsky
2012-04-29 22:22 ` [PATCH] tests/wait render timeout test Ben Widawsky
2012-05-03  5:49 ` [PATCH 0/5 v3] timed BO wait Ben Widawsky

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