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From: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: add async flip support on gen7
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:47:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87390upm94.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351622029-2276-3-git-send-email-jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>


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Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

So, these days if you go to render to a buffer that's been flipped from,
your rendering gets stalled (since the buffer may still be scanned out
when the rendering starts happening), which is the thing we need to
avoid.  I don't see this patch series avoiding that in the async case.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-30 18:33 [RFC] Async flips Jesse Barnes
2012-10-30 18:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] drm: add flags argument to crtc page_flip callback Jesse Barnes
2012-11-02  4:29   ` Mario Kleiner
2012-11-02 16:00     ` Jesse Barnes
2012-10-30 18:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: add async flip support on gen7 Jesse Barnes
2012-10-31 17:47   ` Eric Anholt [this message]
2012-10-31 19:24     ` Jesse Barnes
2012-10-31 12:53 ` [RFC] Async flips Ville Syrjälä
2012-10-31 15:23   ` Jesse Barnes
2012-10-31 15:26     ` Daniel Vetter
2012-10-31 15:39       ` Jesse Barnes
2012-10-31 15:49         ` Chris Wilson
2012-10-31 16:03           ` Daniel Vetter
2012-10-31 16:27           ` Jesse Barnes
2012-10-31 16:05       ` Ville Syrjälä
2012-10-31 17:44   ` Eric Anholt
2012-10-31 18:51     ` Ville Syrjälä
2012-11-02  4:45       ` Mario Kleiner
2012-11-02  9:29         ` Ville Syrjälä
2012-11-12  3:53           ` Mario Kleiner
2012-11-12 12:04             ` Ville Syrjälä

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