[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v1 3/4] drm/i915:bxt: Enable Pooled EU support

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Jul 17 09:27:43 PDT 2015


On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:08:53PM +0100, Arun Siluvery wrote:
> This mode allows to assign EUs to pools.
> The command to enable this mode is sent in auxiliary golden context batch
> as this is only issued once with each context initialization. Thanks to
> Mika for the preliminary review.

A quick explanation for why this has to be in the kernel would be nice.
Privileged instruction?

Not fond of the split between this and patch 4. Patch 4 intoduces one
feature flag that looks different to the one we use here to enable
support.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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