[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] st/mesa: don't do L3 thread pinning for Blender

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2018-11-08 6:23 a.m., Marek Olšák wrote:
> Thanks a lot man. I'll reconsider this depending on the results I receive.
> 
> I may also just pin the Mesa threads and keep the app thread intact. It
> should perform OK with glthread, but not without glthread.
> 
> Another option is to have the gallium and winsys threads "chase" the main
> thread within the CPU by changing the thread affinity based on getcpu().

While those are interesting ideas for the future, I'm afraid it's too
late for them for the 18.3.0 release (scheduled for November 21st IIRC).

Please make sure the thread pinning code is disabled for the release, at
least by default.


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