[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: re-enable semaphores by default

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 19:31, Nicolas Kalkhof <nkalkhof at web.de> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> no problem :). Your patches look good! No hangs or stalls so far with semaphores and rc6 switched on. However I had to disable intel_iommu since it freezes my box shortly after firing up X :(.

Meh, so ppgtt doesn't seem to help rc6 hangs caused by dmar. Has
anything changed wrt how the machine hangs, i.e. can you gather more
information via ssh/logs/netconsole/error_state?

> One other thing still remains: Since the merges for kernel 3.2 came in late october, my cpu/gpu seems to run hotter (approx 10 °C) when idling and after some minutes the cpu load goes up on all cores but the cpu frequency stays low (800 MHz) as well as the gpu (650MHz) and the system is responding well. Yet still additional 5-8 watts are drained from the power supply. Something has to throttle up :(. Oprofile shows that the kernel somewhere hogs the cpu (see dump below). This happens with every kernel from 3.1 up to latest linux-next. I wasn't able to track the bug down yet so I guess I'll better file a bug report on lkml to get someone to verify this.

Iirc not the first time I've heard of this. Reporting a bug to lkml
sounds like the right thing to do (kernel bugzilla is still down).

Thanks for testing, Daniel
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