[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Name the anonymous per-engine context struct
Chris Wilson
chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Mar 18 15:14:14 UTC 2016
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 03:00:56PM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
>
> This anonymous struct was causing a good amount of overly
> verbose code. Also, if we name it and cache the pointer locally
> when there are multiple accesses to it, not only the code is
> more readable, but the compiler manages to generate smaller
> binary.
>
> Along the way I also shortened access to dev_priv and eliminated
> some unused variables and cached some where I spotted the
> opportunity.
>
> Name for the structure, intel_context_engine, and the local
> variable name were borrowed from a similar patch by Chris Wilson.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Looks like a patch I've been maintaining for an eon, and I think Mika
once did a similar thing.
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
If I'm far enough away from it to be impartial?
-Chris
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