[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] softpipe: allocate tile data on demand

[Brian Paul]

On 09/24/2010 07:20 AM, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> Currently softpipe ends up allocating more than 200 MB of memory
> for each context due to the tile caches.
>
> Even worse, this memory is all explicitly cleared, which means that the
> kernel must actually back it with physical RAM right away.
>
> This change allocates tile memory on demand.

The patch didn't apply cleanly to my tree so I hand-applied it.

In any case, this change causes a ton of conformance failures. 
Several piglit tests in the "general" category also fail.

-Brian