Re: [RFC 00/44] GPU scheduler for i915 driver

John Harrison
2014-10-20T10:31:46Z

On 10/10/2014 11:35, Steven Newbury wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 18:23 +0100, John.C.Harrison@Intel.com wrote:
>> From: John Harrison Harrison@Intel.com>
>>
>> Implemented a batch buffer submission scheduler for the i915 DRM
>> driver.
> Hi John,
>
> I was just wondering what's happening with this patch series? Are you
> still working on it? Does it need any testing?

It is still in progress. Although currently stalled because it was
decided to first replace the driver's seqno usage with request
structures wherever possible. The theory being that this is safer and
more sensible that having the scheduler cause out-of-order seqnos and
the various work-arounds to cope with that.