[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Return a mask of the active rings in the high word of busy_ioctl

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Jul 18 21:19:51 CEST 2012


On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:42:32PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed,  4 Jul 2012 12:25:08 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > The intention is to help select which engine to use for copies with
> > interoperating clients - such as a GL client making a request to the X
> > server to perform a SwapBuffers, which may require copying from the
> > active GL back buffer to the X front buffer.
> 
> We choose to report a mask of the active rings to future proof the
> interface against any changes which may allow for the object to reside
> upon multiple rings.

Queued for -next with the bikeshed applied as discussed on irc, thanks for
the patch.  -Daniel
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