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From: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Look for an active kernel context before switching
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:27:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180710212705.GG9764@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <153125333728.18500.7446656447710521132@skylake-alporthouse-com>

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 09:09:07PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Rodrigo Vivi (2018-07-10 20:59:26)
> > Hi Chris, this failed the cherry-pick for drm-intel-fixes, but looking
> > to the log it seems something we want there right?!
> 
> It didn't become crucial until a later patch:
> 
> commit 4dfacb0bcbee79fa2ef4b2e9e64a8f8a28598934
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Date:   Thu May 31 09:22:43 2018 +0100
> 
>     drm/i915: Switch to kernel context before idling at runtime
> 
> Before that patch we just occasionally emitted one more request that we
> strictly required (bumping suspend times by a few microseconds). With
> that patch, we would hit an infinite loop unless we applied the fix.
> 
> So while it did fix a recent bug, impact is minimal.

Cool then. Thanks for the explanation.

> -Chris
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-10 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-24  8:11 [PATCH] drm/i915: Look for an active kernel context before switching Chris Wilson
2018-05-24 13:11 ` ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success for drm/i915: Look for an active kernel context before switching (rev2) Patchwork
2018-05-24 13:37 ` ✓ Fi.CI.IGT: " Patchwork
2018-05-24 14:40 ` [PATCH] drm/i915: Look for an active kernel context before switching Mika Kuoppala
2018-05-24 14:51   ` Chris Wilson
2018-07-10 19:59     ` Rodrigo Vivi
2018-07-10 20:09       ` Chris Wilson
2018-07-10 21:27         ` Rodrigo Vivi [this message]
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2018-05-23  8:04 Chris Wilson

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