Intel i915 / GEM throttling / 2.6.31-rc

[Eric Anholt]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:20 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 16:58 +0200, Michał Kazior wrote:
> > Since the inclusion of a GEM throttling commit [1] to the 2.6.31
> > release candidate I started to have serious issues using 3D
> > acceleration.
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > Are you guys aware of this issue ? Any other thoughts ?
> 
> Eric Anholt posted a patch on the mesa3d-dev list, which seems to be
> made for use with the new throttling behaviour. I don't think it has
> been commited yet though? 
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--intel%3A-Use-a-new-DRI2-extension-to-throttle-the-number-of-outstanding-frames.-td24609475.html

Yeah, review was "you're working too hard, do this simpler thing."  I
hadn't gotten around to writing it yet.

commit 0828579a658af01a64b5e699175dc9bbbedcd685
Author: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Date:   Tue Jul 21 11:23:18 2009 -0700

    intel: Wait on the last swapbuffers to complete before queuing a new one.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com


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