[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 03/11] radeonsi: decrease the number of compiler threads to num CPUs - 1

[Marek Olšák]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas at gmail.com> wrote:
> With the "core wars" starting (16core/32thread "consumer" CPUs
> announced), maybe it's time to add an upper limit? Waking up a core
> from low power state has it's latency, it's sometimes faster to just
> do several jobs on an active core than to wake another one (which will
> also cause more lock contention, the core will just see the job was
> already taken by someone else and go back to sleep).

The upper limit is currently 4.

Marek