Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Officially give up on seqno coherency

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 06:43:04PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> We've never figured out the magic trick to make irq vs. seqno
> updates coherent, only tricks to make it work. And since
> 
> commit 094f9a54e35500739da185cdb78f2e92fc379458
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Sep 25 17:34:55 2013 +0100
> 
>     drm/i915: Fix __wait_seqno to use true infinite timeouts
> 
> we automatically fall back to an irq augmented with polling scheme
> after the first missed interrupt. There's really nothing else we can
> do, hence tune down the message to informational level. It's still
> useful for users in case it reliable preceedes a hard system hang.

If I had a vote it would be DRM_NOTICE,

#define KERN_NOTICE     KERN_SOH "5"    /* normal but significant condition */
#define KERN_INFO       KERN_SOH "6"    /* informational */
-Chris

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