[PATCH xf86-video-intel 2/2] Fix handling of target_msc, divisor, remainder in I830DRI2ScheduleSwap()

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Sun Mar 7 16:38:21 PST 2010


On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:23:11 +0100
Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner at tuebingen.mpg.de> wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> >
> > Arg, I did botch that patch.  And of course I only tested the swap
> > buffers behavior and not OML's WaitMSC so I didn't catch it.  I'll
> > improve the test and push the fix.
> 
> 
> No problem. Just fyi: I noticed you added a test in  
> I830DRI2ScheduleSwap() that outputs X_Warnings if a swap is scheduled  
> more than 100 vblanks ahead. At least for the users of my toolkit,  
> scheduling a swap more than 100 vblanks ahead wouldn't be something  
> noteworthy but quite a typical case of normal use of the system. At  
> the end of a work day some users would probably find ten thousands of  
> such warnings in some log, assuming those warnings get logged at the  
> normal log level. So this usage case is less weird than one would  
> think :-)

Ok, I was worried about that.  I'll remove the message; I guess there's
no easy way to tell between legitimate infrequent swaps and bad MSC
requests...

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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