[Mesa-dev] i965: no more regions!

[Chad Versace]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:34:25PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Here's the series for removing struct intel_region from the i965 driver.
> I think it's worth it for the code savings and reduced steps in allocating
> a miptree.  Plus, it gave me a chance to rewrite some comments about the
> driver.
> 
> It's a longer series than I wanted, but there are some nice little
> cleanups in it that hopefully make it easier to review than 18 patches
> would usually be.

The series was very easy to review in the bite-sized patches. Thanks for
breaking it up that way.

Miptrees and regions and bo's are hot data structures. Now that the
region is gone, do you expect any reduction in cache misses? Any
measurable gain in CPU-bound workloads?