[PATCH 0/1][-next] drm/radeon: Move over to the ttm execbuf utilities

[Jerome Glisse]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com> wrote:
> The patch is compile-tested ony and not very intrusive. It should be applied
> on top of the latest TTM patches.
>
> Besides reduced CPU-usage on SMP kernels, there is the benefit of using
> shared code. Will also ease implementation of concurrent CS due to the
> deadlock prevention mechanisms.
>
> If time allows, I'll write a patch to do the same on Novueau, although
> Novueau does things a little differently than the other TTM-aware drivers.
>
>

Test on on rs780 and it seems to work properly, but i haven't really
stress test it beside few games. I see no perf or CPU use improvement
but it could very well be hidden by others cost.

Note that we can't really have concurrent cs due to the way checking
work. Anyway you could add my reviewed by.

Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>