On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 09:47 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 3, 2009 9:26 am Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 08:58 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > > What I'm saying is that anything greater than a few hundred frames (up
> > > to the limit) will be caught by the timeout,
> >
> > If it wasn't for the problems that triggered all these discussions...
> 
> No, remember the problem that triggered this was the current, broken test, 
> that was returning false for sequence numbers less than a few million of the 
> current sequence number.  So with a large cap (2^31) or a small cap that 
> problem will be fixed.

The existing test isn't broken, it has a 'cap' of (2^32 - 2^23). Your
change just happens to help with your driver problem because it changes
the 'cap' such that counter jumps by your dev->max_vblank_count result
in reasonable wait requests to be considered as 'has passed'.

Maybe we'll just have to agree to completely disagree on this. :}


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