[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/5] use atomics for reference counting

[Bartosz Tomczyk]

Thanks for pointing this out. I've found an old discussion on mailing list,
let's drop the series.

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Timothy Arceri <tarceri at itsqueeze.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been looking into this recently also. Unfortunately I don't think
> these will get applied as is.
>
> These changes have been submitted before but rejected because they make
> existing race conditions worse. We really need to fix those first, I really
> think we are going to need some multi-threaded piglit tests to test some of
> this.
>
> Also I think some of the locking (e.g. arrayobj, pipelineobj) can be
> dropped if we drop support for the GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent
> extension (which I believe we are planning to drop).
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 11/04/17 06:08, Bartosz Tomczyk wrote:
>
>> Bartosz Tomczyk (5):
>>   mesa/arrayobj: use atomics for reference counting
>>   mesa/pipelineobj: use atomics for reference counting
>>   mesa/renderbuffer: use atomics for reference counting
>>   mesa/samplerobj: use atomics for reference counting
>>   mesa/texobj: use atomics for reference counting
>>
>>  src/mesa/main/arrayobj.c     | 16 ++++------------
>>  src/mesa/main/fbobject.c     |  1 -
>>  src/mesa/main/mtypes.h       |  7 -------
>>  src/mesa/main/pipelineobj.c  | 16 ++++------------
>>  src/mesa/main/renderbuffer.c | 15 +++------------
>>  src/mesa/main/samplerobj.c   | 16 ++++------------
>>  src/mesa/main/shaderapi.c    |  2 --
>>  src/mesa/main/texobj.c       | 19 ++++---------------
>>  8 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
>>
>>
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