[PATCH v10 00/15] dma-fence: Deadline awareness

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 10:53 AM Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Rob Clark <robdclark at chromium.org>
>
> This series adds a deadline hint to fences, so realtime deadlines
> such as vblank can be communicated to the fence signaller for power/
> frequency management decisions.
>
> This is partially inspired by a trick i915 does, but implemented
> via dma-fence for a couple of reasons:
>
> 1) To continue to be able to use the atomic helpers
> 2) To support cases where display and gpu are different drivers
>
> This iteration adds a dma-fence ioctl to set a deadline (both to
> support igt-tests, and compositors which delay decisions about which
> client buffer to display), and a sw_sync ioctl to read back the
> deadline.  IGT tests utilizing these can be found at:


I read through the series and didn't spot anything. Have a rather weak

Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>

Thanks!