On 9/1/2012 11:26 AM, Ben Widawsky wrote: > On 2012-08-30 04:26, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> We've had and still have too many issues where the gpu turbot doesn't >> quite to what it's supposed to do (or what we want it to do). >> >> Adding a tracepoint to track when the desired gpu frequence changes >> should help a lot in characterizing and understanding problematic >> workloads. >> >> Also, this should be fairly interesting for power tuning (and >> especially noticing when the gpu is stuck in high frequencies, as has >> happened in the past) and hence for integration into powertop and >> similar tools. >> >> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> > > I can't help but think it's equally interesting to know when the queue the > work as well. > >
btw... if the userspace interface (e.g. the actual event) is not controversial and very unlikely to change, I'd like to start coding the powertop support for this already.... _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
