Chris Wilson a1656b9090 drm/i915: Disable GPU semaphores by default
Andi Kleen narrowed his GPU hangs on his Sugar Bay (SNB desktop) rev 09
down to the use of GPU semaphores, and we already know that they appear
broken up to Huron River (mobile) rev 08. (I'm optimistic that disabling
GPU semaphores is simply hiding another bug by the latency and
side-effects of the additional device interaction it introduces...)

However, use of semaphores is a massive performance improvement... Only
as long as the system remains stable. Enable at your peril.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi-fd@firstfloor.org>
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33921
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
2011-03-07 11:00:59 +00:00
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2010-11-09 13:41:35 +10:00
2010-09-24 10:10:23 +10:00
2010-11-09 13:34:14 +10:00

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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).

The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:

    1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
       the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.

    2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
       hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
       restricted regions of memory.

    3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
       queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
       switch.

    4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
       that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.


Documentation on the DRI is available from:
    http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/

For specific information about kernel-level support, see:

    The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
    Infrastructure
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html

    Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html

    A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
    http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html