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From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Only insert the mb() before updating the fence parameter
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:26:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c3329$6lntgg@orsmga002.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uHrZLNcUrG5T5GaEqWMxPAX_FzdNca8+MWi0K0ObTtgbA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 13:14:09 +0200, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> One thing I wonder is whether we miss any barrier between the wc
> writes to the ringbuffer and the tail update. If that's the case I
> wonder where all the bug reports are ...

Ditto. I've often wondered how we get away without a wmb() there...
 
> Last one: Which machines blow up when you drop that mb()?

pnv, though that's the only non-LLC I've been testing with the
incomplete patch so I can't say it is limited to that machine.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-09 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-09  8:38 [PATCH] drm/i915: Only insert the mb() before updating the fence parameter Chris Wilson
2012-10-09  9:54 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-10-09 10:02   ` Daniel Vetter
2012-10-09 11:03   ` Chris Wilson
2012-10-09 11:14     ` Daniel Vetter
2012-10-09 11:26       ` Chris Wilson [this message]

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