[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/6] drm/i915: simplify testing for the global default context

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Dec 22 01:05:39 PST 2015


On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 04:04:41PM +0000, Dave Gordon wrote:
> There are quite a number of places where the driver tests whether a
> given context is or is not the global default context, usually by
> checking whether an engine's default_pointer points to the context. Now
> that we have a 'is_global_default' flag in the context itself, these can
> be rewritten to use it. This makes the logic more obvious, and usually
> saves at least one memory reference.

All these places do not need to exist. Please just fix execlists.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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