On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:56 +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> There is another TTM race bug that I'm going to fix but which doesn't 
> yet affect any upstream code AFAICT.
> 
> The effect is that it may cause a deadlock in extremely rare cases if 
> there are two processes validating at the same time, and one process 
> needs to evict a buffer on which ttm_bo_block_reservation has been called.
> 
> I'll fix that up before we upstream any driver that allows simultaneous 
> validation. AFAIK only openchrome and old Poulsbo did that. vmwgfx 
> probably will at some point.
> 
> /Thomas
> 

GL app likely endup doing concurrent validation with the ddx on radeon.

Jerome


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