[PATCH 0/6] make ctx mgr global

[Christian König]

The context number isn't used for judgment if a switch is needed or not 
(or at least it shouldn't be).

The numbers are just and IDR, e.g. they are just used to identify a 
kernel object from userspace.

Regards,
Christian.

Am 24.08.2016 um 12:45 schrieb Liu, Monk:
> David,
>
> No matter what's the initial purpose of this patch is, I think this patch is needed, otherwise context switch judgment will be incorrect , e.g. process1 and process2 can both have a context id 99, and that will
> Lead to incorrect skipping of PREAMBLE CE IB
>
> BR monk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amd-gfx [mailto:amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Chunming Zhou
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 3:50 PM
> To: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Zhou, David(ChunMing) <David1.Zhou at amd.com>; Mao, David <David.Mao at amd.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 0/6] make ctx mgr global
>
> If we want to share semaphore/dependency across process across device, we must make ctx id be global, so that we can index it everywhere.
>
> Chunming Zhou (6):
>    drm/amdgpu: use global ctx mgr instead of vm specified
>    drm/amdgpu: clean up for amdgpu ctx
>    drm/amdgpu: allocate progressively higher ids for ctx until idr
>      counter wraps
>    drm/amdgpu: ctx id should be removed when ctx is freed
>    drm/amdgpu: use fence-array for ctx release
>    drm/amdgpu: dependency is already signaled if ctx has been freed
>
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h     |  17 ++--
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c  |   9 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ctx.c | 142 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c |   3 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c |   4 -
>   5 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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