[Intel-gfx] [RFC 7/8] drm/i915: Allow reset without error capture

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Mar 16 20:33:38 UTC 2018


Quoting jeff.mcgee at intel.com (2018-03-16 18:31:04)
> From: Jeff McGee <jeff.mcgee at intel.com>
> 
> Pull the reset handling out of i915_handle_error() so that it can be
> called by that function and directly by the upcoming force preemption
> handler. This allows the force preemption handler to bypass the error
> capture that i915_handle_error() does before getting on with the
> reset. We do not want error capture for force preemption because it
> adds significant latency (~10 msecs measured on APL).

And we don't need to capture the error in many other cases; just add a
control flag.
-Chris


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