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SubjectRe: [Nouveau] [PATCH 09/17] drm/radeon: use common fence implementation for fences
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> The scheduler needs to keep track of a lot of fences, so I think we'll
> have to register callbacks, not a simple wait function. We must keep
> track of all the non-i915 fences for all oustanding batches. Also, the
> scheduler doesn't eliminate the hw queue, only keep it much slower so
> that we can sneak in higher priority things.
>
> Really, scheduler or not is orthogonal.

Also see my other comment about interactions between wait_fence and
the i915 reset logic. We can't actually use it from within the
scheduler code since that would deadlock.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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