On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:20:23PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > >On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 15:58, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > >>Does anyone know why the radeon & r128 drivers call FLUSH_RING when in > >>the BlockHandler ? > > > > > >This is the best way to ensure that the indirect buffer gets flushed > >according to Mark Vojkovich. Without it, drawing operations could get > >stuck in the indirect buffer for quite a while. See the dri-devel > >archives. > > Ah, yes. What's confusing here is the naming of the macro: FLUSH_RING() > doesn't actually have anything to do with the ring, but rather sends the > buffer of commands being built up in the X server off to the kernel. > > Perhaps renaming the macro to FLUSH_INDIRECT_BUFFER() would help make > things clearer?
Sounds good. Alan. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
