Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/guc: Defer LRC context unpin or release

Chris Wilson
2015-11-06T22:09:34Z

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 01:56:59PM -0800, yu.dai@intel.com wrote:
> From: Alex Dai <yu.dai@intel.com>
>
> Can't immediately free LRC context (neither unpin it) even all
> its referenced requests are completed, because HW still need a
> short period of time to save data to LRC status page. It is safe
> to free LRC when HW completes a request from a different LRC.

See the legacy context switch mechanism for code to reuse - at least
reuse the pointers rather than add yet another almost identically named
one to intel_engine_cs.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre