[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] dri-r600: Hook up a drm_descriptor configuration function

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sam, 2011-10-22 at 13:47 +0200, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> the attached patch enables opengl client side throtteling for r600g that 
> recently slipped in as an infrastructure but is just enabled for vmgfx so far.
> 
> The benefits of the client side throtteling are great, since a single render 
> intensive application is no longer able to just saturate the kernels radeon 
> command buffer. In the default dri configuration the X servers swap response 
> also helps for this case, but if this type of throtteling is disabled, client 
> side throtteling just throttles the right application.
> ... I had that kind of fence based implementation on my todo for some time now 
> but never got to that. Thanks for providing this!
> 
> Please review the attached patch.

Looks good to me.


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