Reworking of GPU reset logic

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Mon Apr 23 00:40:18 PDT 2012


On Sam, 2012-04-21 at 11:42 +0200, Christian König wrote: 
> 
> Regarding the debugging of lockups I had the following on my "in mind 
> todo" list:
> 1. Rework the chip specific lockup detection code a bit more and 
> probably clean it up a bit.
> 2. Make the timeout a module parameter, cause compute task sometimes 
> block a ring for more than 10 seconds.

A better solution for that would be to improve the detection of the GPU
making progress, also for graphics operations. We should try to reduce
the timeout rather than making it even larger.


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