Re: [PATCH 6/6] drm/i915: Stop caching the "golden" renderstate

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On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 10:36:26PM +0000, Oscar Mateo wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/02/2017 07:56 AM, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 07:54 -0700, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:43:16PM +0000, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 12:42 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > > As we now record the default HW state and so only emit the "golden"
> > > > > renderstate once to prepare the HW, there is no advantage in keeping the
> > > > > renderstate batch around as it will never be used again.
> > > So, with this in place we really don't need that null context for CNL.
> > > to fullfill all Mesa needs, right?!
> > Separate issue, this only fixes isolation. This patch just releases it
> > from memory after it's been applied to the default context states to be
> > stored.
> > 
> > But yes, we also decided not to have null context for new platforms.
> 
> At last until, two years from now, we find out that there is a very subtle
> reason why we need it :)

:( - Yeap, for me just to be on the safe side and start with a clean context
would be a good reason already...

> 
> > Regards, Joonas
> 
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