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From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Peter Clifton <pcjc2@cam.ac.uk>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Subject: Re: Increased latency from removal of GEM_THROTTLE in 2D driver
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:14:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b55a1$ij6d8h@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289007899.8333.4.camel@pcjc2lap>

On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:44:59 +0000, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Presumably this says something bad about my app, or its benchmarking
> code. Any clues as to what that is?
> 
> Without the commit, I can use other X11 apps whilst my PCB program is
> benchmarking. With it, the X11 server graphics almost completely freeze
> up.

Do you get a similar effect with the THROTTLE in the ddx and a recent
kernel (2.6.37-rc1 or drm-intel-next)? Those kernels should only penalize
the caller of THROTTLE and so X should not end up blocking your app.

I can feel a new tracepoint coming: throttle-begin, throttle-end.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-06  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-06  1:44 Increased latency from removal of GEM_THROTTLE in 2D driver Peter Clifton
2010-11-06  9:14 ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2010-11-08  7:37 ` Eric Anholt

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