[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: kicking rings considered harmful

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Sun Oct 2 05:59:28 CEST 2011


On Sat,  1 Oct 2011 19:15:19 -0700, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> Only do it in the hope of resurrecting the gpu. Disable when reset is
> disabled because it seems to tremendously increases our changes to
> actually capture an error_state before the system goes all belly-up.

This patch needs a better subject, like "Disable stuck semaphore kick when
GPU reset is disabled", instead of something suggesting that kicking
rings is bad in general and going to be removed by the patch.
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