[Nouveau] [Patch] Yet another version of the card pausing patch

[Martin Peres]

Le 23/01/2011 15:14, Martin Peres a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like devs to test this patch on all their cards(<nvc0) and 
> report bugs/instability. It shouldn't ever crash (but it may not 
> always work and return -EAGAIN).
>
> I've attached a little bash script that you need to modify according 
> to the available perf levels. Please launch it and play, watch videos 
> or browse the internet.
>
> Also, if you could look at the hold_spin variable and tell me how you 
> would deal with that, it would be kind of you. The problem is that 
> PGRAPH may take an awful lot
> of time to pause in certain conditions and holding the lock at this 
> position isn't needed (as far as I can tell, the critical ressource is 
> fifo_reassign).
>
> Martin
>
> PS: I'll be out in an hour for a week so I may be slower to answer 
> messages.
Patch 3: Don't forget to set the name of the boot perf level.