[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 0/6] Documentation patch for batchbuffer submission

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Mar 27 10:28:18 UTC 2018


Quoting kevin.rogovin at intel.com (2018-03-27 11:26:14)
> From: Kevin Rogovin <kevin.rogovin at intel.com>
> 
> Note: I want to make a one or two follow-up series that provide
> narration and potentially additional documentation for GUC submission
> and the breadcrumbs.
> 
> v3:
>    More documentation: emphasize that handling of batchbuffer
>    requests creates a request struct that is added to the
>    dependency tree and that the inform to the hardware that
>    there is new data on a ringbuffer is deferred until dependencies
>    are satsified.
> 
>    Break patch into more digestable chunks.
> 
> v2:
>    More documentation: intel_ringbuffer, sequence number.
>    Expose to i915.rst existing documentation
> 
>    Call out GEM_EXECBUFFER as deprecated.

Oh not it isn't. _WR has a singular purpose that isn't even the
recommend method any more.
-Chris


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