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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:54:27 +1000
From: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
To: Mike Mestnik <cheako911@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] r200 dri driver deadlocks
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> Dose the DRM varify that the cmds are in this order?  Why not just have
> the DRM 'sort' the cmds?  A simple bouble sort would have no more overhead
> then the check for correct order, but it would fix missordered cmd
> streams.
> 
> Once this is done the statement holds true, userland stuff should never...
> 

Feel free to implement it and profile it, but there are so many ways
to lock up a radeon chip it is scary, the above was just one example,
some days if you look at it funny it can lockup :-), it is accepted
that userland can crap out 3D chips, the Intel ones are fairly easy to
hangup also..

Dave.
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