[Intel-gfx] i915 freakout with latest 3.7 git

Heinz Diehl htd at fritha.org
Sat Dec 8 15:30:53 CET 2012


On 08.12.2012, Chris Wilson wrote: 

> One thing you can try is SNA, which packs its
> batches differently with the advantage that more auxiliary state is
> included in the error-state. It also packs all the kernels into a
> single buffer which will reduce the frequency at which it is paged
> out/in. So if you can reproduce with SNA (use Option "AccelMethod"
> "SNA" in a device section of your xorg.conf snippet) I expect the
> error-state to be quite different and hopefully shed some more light on
> the issue.

I tried this with latest 3.7-rc8 git, but no matter how hard I try, I
can't get the gpu to hang (with i915.915_enable_rc6=0). Will use this 
as my default kernel the next few days and see if the hang occurs by
chance.

Heinz



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