On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 02:24:06PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > From: John Harrison <[email protected]> > > The fence object used inside the request structure requires a sequence > number. Although this is not used by the i915 driver itself, it could > potentially be used by non-i915 code if the fence is passed outside of > the driver. This is the intention as it allows external kernel drivers > and user applications to wait on batch buffer completion > asynchronously via the dma-buff fence API. > > To ensure that such external users are not confused by strange things > happening with the seqno, this patch adds in a per context timeline > that can provide a guaranteed in-order seqno value for the fence. This > is safe because the scheduler will not re-order batch buffers within a > context - they are considered to be mutually dependent.
This is still nonsense. Just implement per-context seqno. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
