[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i965: Actually use the user timeout in glClientWaitSync.

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Thu May 9 16:08:56 PDT 2013


Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> writes:

> On 05/09/2013 02:16 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> writes:
>>
>>> From: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
>>>
>>> Use the new libdrm functionality to actually do timed waits on the sync
>>> object.
>>
>> This was added at basically the same time as contexts, which we don't
>> rely on currently.  It was in kernel 3.5, which is almost a year ago
>> now, and will have been a year ago by the time of the next Mesa release.
>>
>> I'm comfortable with requiring these two features at this point.  Any
>> objection?
>
> This does not bump the kernel requirements AFAIK.  If the kernel doesn't 
> support the functionality, it simply falls back to an infinite wait 
> which is exactly what we do in Mesa today.

Ah, clever libdrm!  I'd forgotten about that.

Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
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