[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: kicking rings considered harmful

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:47:58AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:34:31 -0700, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> > I'd definitely be in favo(u)r of removing the kick_ring() if it isn't really
> > useful anymore. It has some forcewake race if I remember correctly which I
> > never bothered to fix.
> 
> Agreed, enough brutality, kill the kick_ring!

Actually, what about moving it into the reset-handler, kinda as a
soft-reset? If we detect that the gpu hangs again, we could then reset it
for real.
-Daniel
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