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From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: pipe control notify removed?
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:05:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b55a1$iv0q2i@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101215031453.GA29548@zhen-devel.sh.intel.com>

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:14:53 +0800, Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Chris, just notice you removed pipe control notify entirely on -next,
> that seems wrong to me. In Ironlake time, we've seen interrupt stall issue
> with user interrupt, and be warned user interrupt is deprecated, so we moved
> on to use pipe control notify, although there's a workaround later covered
> that's required on Ironlake. But it's stable finally. And for sandybridge, 
> there's no such workaround needed.

The answer to this is to make sure that such details are kept in the
code comments, especially if such information is not readily available
in the documentation.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-15 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-15  3:14 pipe control notify removed? Zhenyu Wang
2010-12-15  3:22 ` Shuang He
2010-12-15 10:05 ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2010-12-16  1:59   ` Zhenyu Wang
2010-12-16  2:23     ` Fu Michael

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