[Intel-gfx] [RFCv3 11/15] drm/i915: Introduce execlist context status change notification

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Mar 11 11:28:21 UTC 2016


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 06:59:42PM +0800, Zhi Wang wrote:
> This patch introduces an approach to track the execlist context status
> change.
> 
> GVT-g uses GVT context as the "shadow context". The content inside GVT
> context will be copied back to guest after the context is idle. So GVT-g
> has to know the status of the execlist context.
> 
> This function is configurable in the context creation service. Currently,
> Only GVT-g will create the "status-change-notification" enabled GEM
> context.

Nope. Please hook into the lower-frequency idle mechanism then.
-Chris

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