Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:46:22 +0200 | From | Christian König <> | Subject | Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH 09/17] drm/radeon: use common fence implementation for fences |
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Am 23.07.2014 10:42, schrieb Daniel Vetter: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Maarten Lankhorst > <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> wrote: >> In this case if the sync was to i915 the i915 lockup procedure would take care of itself. It wouldn't fix radeon, but it would at least unblock your intel card again. I haven't specifically added a special case to attempt to unblock external fences, but I've considered it. :-) > Actually the i915 reset stuff relies crucially on being able to kick > all waiters holding driver locks. Since the current fence code only > exposes an opaque wait function without exposing the underlying wait > queue we won't be able to sleep on both the fence queue and the reset > queue. So would pose a problem if we add fence_wait calls to our > driver.
And apart from that I really think that I misunderstood Maarten. But his explanation sounds like i915 would do a reset because Radeon is locked up, right?
Well if that's really the case then I would question the interface even more, cause that is really nonsense.
Christian.
> -Daniel
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