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

Daniel Vetter
2014-07-07T15:57:32Z

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 06:44:04AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > Implemented a batch buffer submission scheduler for the i915 DRM driver.
> >
>
> While this seems very interesting, you might want to address in the commit msg
> or the cover email
>
> a) why this is needed,
> b) any improvements in speed, power consumption or throughput it generates,
> i.e. benchmarks.
>
> also some notes on what hw supports preemption.

Also tests to both exercise the rescheduling (i.e. let a high-prio batch
compete agains a large pile of low-prio batches) and augmenting our gpu
sync tests (from Damien) with that, too.
-Daniel
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