[PATCH] drm/i915: Before pageflip, also wait for shared dmabuf fences.

[Mike Lothian]

Hi

Just another gentle ping to see where you are with this?

Cheers

Mike

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 at 01:40 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

> On 11/10/16 09:04 PM, Christian König wrote:
> > Am 11.10.2016 um 05:58 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> >> On 07/10/16 09:34 PM, Mike Lothian wrote:
> >>> This has discussion has gone a little quiet
> >>>
> >>> Was there any agreement about what needed doing to get this working
> >>> for i965/amdgpu?
> >> Christian, do you see anything which could prevent the solution I
> >> outlined from working?
> >
> > I thought about that approach as well, but unfortunately it also has a
> > couple of downsides. Especially keeping the exclusive fence set while we
> > actually don't need it isn't really clean either.
>
> I was wondering if it's possible to have a singleton pseudo exclusive
> fence which is used for all BOs. That might keep the overhead acceptably
> low.
>
>
> > I'm currently a bit busy with other tasks and so put Nayan on a road to
> > get a bit into the kernel driver (he asked for that anyway).
> >
> > Implementing the simple workaround to sync when we export the DMA-buf
> > should be something like 20 lines of code and fortunately Nayan has an
> > I+A system and so can actually test it.
> >
> > If it turns out to be more problematic or somebody really starts to need
> > it I'm going to hack on that myself a bit more.
>
> If you mean only syncing when a DMA-buf is exported, that's not enough,
> as I explained before. The BOs being shared are long-lived, and
> synchronization between GPUs is required for every command stream
> submission.
>
>
> --
> Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
> Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer
>
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