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From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Force sync command ordering
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:16:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e39f63$29fugg@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318357916-12661-4-git-send-email-ben@bwidawsk.net>

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:31:56 -0700, Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> This will strongly order synchronization commands with respect to 3d
> state and 3d primitive commands. AFAIK, this shouldn't impact anything
> as these sync commands are all for privileged (or ppgtt) batches only,
> so user space should not be relying on this, and the kernel wouldn't be
> relying on 3d state or primitive commands.
> 
> This will help when we enable PPGTT, and perhaps this synchronization is
> currently useful and I just don't realize it.
> 
> This was found through doc inspection by Ken and applies to Gen6+;
> 
> Reported-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>

Ok, that bit does look quite important..., and the code also looks
correct!
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-11 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-11 18:31 [PATCH 0/3] execbuf cleanups Ben Widawsky
2011-10-11 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: extract constant offset setting Ben Widawsky
2011-10-11 19:09   ` Chris Wilson
2011-10-11 18:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: make eb structure do more Ben Widawsky
2011-10-11 19:11   ` Chris Wilson
2011-10-11 18:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Force sync command ordering Ben Widawsky
2011-10-11 18:44   ` Ben Widawsky
2011-10-11 19:16   ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2011-10-11 19:18   ` Kenneth Graunke
2011-10-11 19:30     ` Ben Widawsky
2011-10-11 19:33       ` Ben Widawsky
2011-10-11 19:42         ` Chris Wilson

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