Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/6] drm/i915: Force the switch to the i915->kernel_context

2017-11-02 Thread Chris Wilson
Quoting Mika Kuoppala (2017-11-02 15:40:50) > Chris Wilson writes: > > > In the next few patches, we will have a hard requirement that we emit a > > context-switch to the perma-pinned i915->kernel_context (so that we can > > save the HW state using that context-switch). As the first context > > i

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/6] drm/i915: Force the switch to the i915->kernel_context

2017-11-02 Thread Mika Kuoppala
Chris Wilson writes: > In the next few patches, we will have a hard requirement that we emit a > context-switch to the perma-pinned i915->kernel_context (so that we can > save the HW state using that context-switch). As the first context > itself may be classed as a kernel context, we want to be

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/6] drm/i915: Force the switch to the i915->kernel_context

2017-11-02 Thread Joonas Lahtinen
On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 12:42 +, Chris Wilson wrote: > In the next few patches, we will have a hard requirement that we emit a > context-switch to the perma-pinned i915->kernel_context (so that we can > save the HW state using that context-switch). As the first context > itself may be classed as

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/6] drm/i915: Force the switch to the i915->kernel_context

2017-11-02 Thread Chris Wilson
In the next few patches, we will have a hard requirement that we emit a context-switch to the perma-pinned i915->kernel_context (so that we can save the HW state using that context-switch). As the first context itself may be classed as a kernel context, we want to be explicit in our comparison. For