[Piglit] [PATCH 0/1] Test for updating shared buffer

[David McFarland]

Fabian Bieler <fabianbieler at fastmail.fm> writes:

> I think you'll have to call glFinish (or some fence functions) after
> altering a buffer and before switching the context to ensure the changes
> are visible in the new context.

Thanks for digging up the relevant docs.  I tried both Finish (before
the context switches) and FenceSync/WaitSync (around them), but neither
actually seemed to change the behaviour on radeonsi.

I would say a fence is probably the way to go for this test.

> I'd appreciate a comment at the top of the file describing the test.
> E.g.: what you wrote above.
>
> I also have some bike-shedding comments if you're into that sort of
> thing 😉:
>
> The "program" variable could be made local.
> check_error could be replaced by piglit_check_gl_error(GL_NO_ERROR).
> All functions except main could me made static.
> Shader creation could be simplified with piglit_build_simple_program.

I'll do a cleanup pass before posting an updated patch.

Thanks