Re: [PATCH 7/9] drm/gem-fb-helper: Always do implicit sync

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On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 02:04:10PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 03:11:24PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > I've done a lot of history digging. The first signs of this
> > > optimization was introduced in i915:
> > 
> > I can't come up with any reason this would matter.  I almost came up
> > with "You're doing tearing X11 front buffer rendering, and you do a
> > modeset using the same fb, and so you block that modeset behind your
> > rendering."  Except that:
> > 
> > 1) who cares
> > 2) this helper is only for dma-bufs, not normal X11 rendering
> > 3) your X11 driver should be doing pageflipping to be tear-free anyway,
> >    let's just fix that[1].
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > [1] This is not actually me volunteering myself or anyone else to go fix
> > that.
> 
> Ok, merged everything except the final three patches. I'll poke Rob for a
> proper ack first before doing that. There's not much point in trying to
> unify behaviour if there's still a driver doing things differently :-)
> 
> Thanks very much for your review.

Ok with the msm conversion to atomic commit helpers msm aligned to what
we're doing here without my patch. I pulled in the remaining to for 4.19.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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