Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751460AbVKYTYG (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:24:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751461AbVKYTYG (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:24:06 -0500 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:58544 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751460AbVKYTYF (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:24:05 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rt4: via DRM errors From: Lee Revell To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jesse Barnes , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hellstr=F6m?= , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1132946020.8990.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1132807985.1921.82.camel@mindpipe> <1132829378.3473.11.camel@mindpipe> <19379.192.138.116.230.1132836621.squirrel@192.138.116.230> <200511240731.56147.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <1132945536.20390.39.camel@mindpipe> <1132946020.8990.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:23:49 -0500 Message-Id: <1132946629.20390.51.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 16 On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 20:13 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > of course sometimes having less but more coarse locks is actually > faster. Taking/dropping a lock is not free. far from it. True but couldn't it be a problem for devices like unichrome where you have 3D and MPEG acceleration and they have to play nice? It just seems like there may have been an implicit assumption that devices only support one type of hardware acceleration. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/