Re: [RFC 10/11] drm/i915: Export engine stats API to other users

Tvrtko Ursulin
2017-09-15T09:49:58Z

On 14/09/2017 21:26, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2017-09-11 16:25:58)
>> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
>>
>> Other kernel users might want to look at total GPU busyness
>> in order to implement things like package power distribution
>> algorithms more efficiently.
>
> Who are we exporting these symbols to? Will you not need all the module
> ref handling and load ordering like around ips and audio?

Hm yes indeed, I forgot about that.

Perhaps Ben could comment on who is the user. If it is purely for
internal explorations, I'll stick the patch at the end of the series as
it is. If it has a more serious user I would need to implement a proper
solution.

Regards,

Tvrtko