[Intel-gfx] [3.0-rc3] i1915: missed IRQ/stalls patch success

[Eric Anholt]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:18:36 +0800, Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> The frequent ~1.5s pauses I hit with SNB hardware in the gnome3 UI (eg
> whenever you hit the top-left of the screen to show all windows) are
> nicely addressed by your recent wake patch [1] (ported to -rc3). Thus
> I see no 'missed IRQ' kernel messages.
> 
> As this addresses a significant usability regression, are you happy to
> add it to the 3.0-rc queue? I think it has very good value in -stable
> also (assuming correctness). What do you think?

This one had significant performance impacts, and later hacks in this
series worked around the problem to approximately the same level of
success with less impact, and we don't actually have a justification of
why any of them work.  We were still hoping to come up with some clue,
and haven't yet.
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