[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/25] i915 HW context support

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Thu Jun 14 18:04:57 CEST 2012


On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 02:42:40PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> Setting myself up for a late night crying session once again. Most of the
> people reading this probably know the history and reasons for the patches. If
> not, you can search the intel-gfx mailing list to try to learn more. I won't
> recap the whole thing here, and instead let the patches speak for themselves.
> 
> Instead a brief review of what's here, and what's happened. Mostly,
> these badly need testing and review. I've carried these around for so
> long now, and seen so many different failures, I'm quite paranoid they
> still aren't perfect. Also, I've spent almost all of the time working on
> this in the kernel, so there is bound to be simple errors in the other
> stuff.
> 
> I've run these on various workloads and saw nothing worth mentioning.

Ok, my little attempt at in-situ bikeshedding failed, so I've just slurped
in your patches directly and only applied the minimal change to get rid of
object->context_id.

Please commit the i-g-t testcase so that qa can start testing this aspa.

Cheers, Daniel
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