[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/5] drm/i915: wait render timeout ioctl

[Ben Widawsky]

On Tue, 01 May 2012 10:19:53 -0700
Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:41:08 -0700, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> > This helps implement GL_ARB_sync put stops short of allowing full blow
>                                   "but"?                           "blown"?
> 
> > sync objects.
> > 
> > Finally we can use the new timed seqno waiting function to allow
> > userspace to wait on a request with a timeout. This implements that
> > interface.
> 
> It looks like this actually lets them wait on a BO with a timeout.  I
> like it as an interface, but that's not what I expected from the commit
> message.  Waiting on a request sounds like passing a seqno back out to
> userland that they could wait on.

Yeah. Chris asked me to update the comments actually, and I forgot. I
will resubmit this patch with better comments in the not too distant
future.