[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/6] drm/i915: Stop caching the "golden" renderstate

[Joonas Lahtinen]

On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 07:54 -0700, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:43:16PM +0000, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 12:42 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > As we now record the default HW state and so only emit the "golden"
> > > renderstate once to prepare the HW, there is no advantage in keeping the
> > > renderstate batch around as it will never be used again.
> 
> So, with this in place we really don't need that null context for CNL.
> to fullfill all Mesa needs, right?!

Separate issue, this only fixes isolation. This patch just releases it
from memory after it's been applied to the default context states to be
stored.

But yes, we also decided not to have null context for new platforms.

Regards, Joonas
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Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation