[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 12/12] drm/i915: No contexts without ppgtt

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Apr 24 12:06:12 CEST 2013


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:15:40PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> Going forward, every context will have its own address space. So rip off
> the band aid now. If contexts fail, don't do ppgtt, and vice versa.
> 
> Similarly to the last patch, this is somewhat wasteful of PPGTT address
> space with contexts, since we're not actually utilizing the new PPGTT.

What strategy do we have for isolating bugs between ctx and ppggt? I'd
like to be able disable each of them independently and together.
-Chris

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