On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 10:41:11PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 02:23:23PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 04:14:31PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > > Ben, will we be informing userspace about the ABI change? > > > > Hmm. I'm not convinced we ever want to reset the default context stats. > > I meant: will userspace be able to find out that the kernel now uses > per-fd default contexts. i.e. will I know if the kernel will > automatically allocate me a separate context and switch every time my > batches execute? > -Chris > > -- > Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre Yes. It won't be a requirement for mesa to know, but since I want to kill aliasing ppgtt as much as possible, I intend to update getparam to both set 0 to aliasing, and a new one for ppgtt. -- Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center
