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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
To: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/fbc: fix the check for already reserved fbc size
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:09:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj8rwjfn.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150205170816.GC27834@intel.com>

On Thu, 05 Feb 2015, Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:04:27PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> The check for previously reserved stolen space size for FBC in
>> i915_gem_stolen_setup_compression() did not take the compression
>> threshold into account. Fix this by storing and comparing to
>> uncompressed size instead.
>> 
>> The bug has been introduced in
>> 
>> commit 5e59f7175f96550ede91f58d267d2b551cb6fbba
>> Author: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@intel.com>
>> Date:   Mon Jun 30 10:41:24 2014 -0700
>> 
>>     drm/i915: Try harder to get FBC
>> 
>> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88975
>> Suggested-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
>> Cc: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@intel.com>
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.17+
>> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
>
> I guess we can argue semantically about whether or not it was a bug. If I didn't
> put the DRM_INFO there, everything would have continued to work and nobody would
> have complained.

Okay, bug or not, I felt it was unnecessary to be doing the reservation
over and over at every update.

I also contemplated making the logging DRM_INFO_ONCE as a follow-up, but
then thought it's a good canary, at least for now. We occasionally have
these moments where we discover we do some stuff way too often.

> I personally prefer keeping the size as the compressed size
> like you did here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88975#c1
> but Chris already reviewed this so nuts to me.

As you can tell, I did not really have an opinion one way or the other,
so someone else having an opinion won...


BR,
Jani.



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      reply	other threads:[~2015-02-06  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-05 10:04 [PATCH] drm/i915/fbc: fix the check for already reserved fbc size Jani Nikula
2015-02-05 10:06 ` Chris Wilson
2015-02-05 14:27   ` Daniel Vetter
2015-02-05 13:27 ` shuang.he
2015-02-05 17:08 ` Ben Widawsky
2015-02-06  8:09   ` Jani Nikula [this message]

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