The context number isn't used for judgment if a switch is needed or not (or at least it shouldn't be). The numbers are just and IDR, e.g. they are just used to identify a kernel object from userspace. Regards, Christian. Am 24.08.2016 um 12:45 schrieb Liu, Monk: > David, > > No matter what's the initial purpose of this patch is, I think this patch is needed, otherwise context switch judgment will be incorrect , e.g. process1 and process2 can both have a context id 99, and that will > Lead to incorrect skipping of PREAMBLE CE IB > > BR monk > > -----Original Message----- > From: amd-gfx [mailto:amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Chunming Zhou > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 3:50 PM > To: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org > Cc: Zhou, David(ChunMing) <David1.Zhou at amd.com>; Mao, David <David.Mao at amd.com> > Subject: [PATCH 0/6] make ctx mgr global > > If we want to share semaphore/dependency across process across device, we must make ctx id be global, so that we can index it everywhere. > > Chunming Zhou (6): > drm/amdgpu: use global ctx mgr instead of vm specified > drm/amdgpu: clean up for amdgpu ctx > drm/amdgpu: allocate progressively higher ids for ctx until idr > counter wraps > drm/amdgpu: ctx id should be removed when ctx is freed > drm/amdgpu: use fence-array for ctx release > drm/amdgpu: dependency is already signaled if ctx has been freed > > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h | 17 ++-- > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c | 9 +- > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ctx.c | 142 ++++++++++++++++++-------------- > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 3 + > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c | 4 - > 5 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.9.1 > > _______________________________________________ > amd-gfx mailing list > amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx > _______________________________________________ > amd-gfx mailing list > amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx
