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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Subject: Re: old radeon latency problem still unfixed?
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:44:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060226014437.327b1cc3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140917787.24141.78.camel@mindpipe>

Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
>  Users report that this patch:
> 
>  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00072.html
> 
>  is still needed to eliminate audio underruns for Radeon users.

That's a 2.6.4 patch which generates 100% rejects.

But still, if that patch helped and didn't throw a billion might_sleep()
and people were using preemptible kernels then we have a lock_kernel()
problem.  A suitable fix would be to make sure all the locking's tight and
to convert DRM to use unlocked_ioctl.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-26  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-26  1:36 old radeon latency problem still unfixed? Lee Revell
2006-02-26  2:33 ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2006-02-26  2:36   ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26  9:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-26 19:35   ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26 21:11     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-02-26 21:31       ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26 22:53         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-02-26 23:02           ` Lee Revell
2006-02-27  0:18             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-02-27  0:32               ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26  9:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-02-26  9:57   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-26 19:39     ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26 21:31       ` Dave Airlie
2006-02-26 21:35         ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26 22:09           ` Dave Airlie

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