[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/9] HW contest support for Ironlake

[Chris Wilson]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 09:22:44AM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> By the request of Ken, and Chris, I've added support for HW contexts to
> Ironlake. This is not the first time I've done this, but I think I'll
> skip the somewhat ugly history on the matter.
> 
> Our existing support for Ironlake sets up 2 contexts, the powerctx, and
> the renderctx. The former is stored in special memory on GEN6+, and the
> latter is *extremely* similar to the way we use default context on GEN6+
> (ie. if users don't opt in to contexts, they are using it even if they
> don't realize).
> 
> The patch series first tries to tie that renderctx into our existing
> i915 context code, and then rips out the old renderctx. Powerctx is left
> alone since it still really is a special case.

It's a neat series, killing the special case for renderctx is a big
improvement.
 
> Finally, in the series I reenable rc6 on ILK. I've never had an issue
> with this on my ILK, but I recommend anyone testing on it who sees
> issues to try to disable it via modparam firstly.

Optimist.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre