[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Consistent ordering of tracepoint binary data

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu May 11 13:07:35 UTC 2017


On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:00:45PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> 
> For userspace receiving binary data it is easier if all related
> request tracepoints emit the binary data in the same order of
> dev, ring, ctx, seqno, ...

We decided that dev, ctx, ring, seqno was the right heirachy last time.
After much debate :)
ctx is the logical view of the device for a user
ctx + ring = timeline
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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