[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/5] drm/i915: Get rid of fence error propagation (v2)

2021-07-10 Thread Jason Ekstrand
Fence error propagation is sketchy at best. Instead of explicitly handling fences which might have errors set in the code which is aware of errors, we just kick them down the line and hope that userspace knows what to do when a wait eventually fails. This is sketchy at best because most userspace

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/5] drm/i915: Get rid of fence error propagation (v2)

2021-06-03 Thread Jason Ekstrand
Fence error propagation is sketchy at best. Instead of explicitly handling fences which might have errors set in the code which is aware of errors, we just kick them down the line and hope that userspace knows what to do when a wait eventually fails. This is sketchy at best because most userspace