On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:57:08PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > From: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> > > In order to correctly account for reserving space in the GTT and fences > for a batch buffer, we need to independently track whether the fence is > pinned due to a fenced GPU access in the batch or whether the buffer is > pinned in the aperture. Currently we count the fenced as pinned if the > buffer has already been seen in the execbuffer. This leads to a false > accounting of available fence registers, causing frequent mass evictions. > Worse, if coupled with the change to make i915_gem_object_get_fence() > report EDADLK upon fence starvation, the batchbuffer can fail with only > one fence required... > > Fixes intel-gpu-tools/tests/gem_fenced_exec_thrash > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38735 > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> > Tested-by: Paul Neumann <paul104x at yahoo.de> Queued for -next, thanks for the patch. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Mail: daniel at ffwll.ch Mobile: +41 (0)79 365 57 48
