[Dri-devel] question on lightweight vs heavyweight locking

2003-02-19 Thread Philip Brown
I've been reading http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html and the code, obviously... so I've seen references to the lightweight lock. ButI have yet to figure out why there is one. The url document mentions that one supposedly exists, and that the lightweight lock will not

Re: [Dri-devel] question on lightweight vs heavyweight locking

2003-02-19 Thread Keith Whitwell
Philip Brown wrote: I've been reading http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html and the code, obviously... so I've seen references to the lightweight lock. ButI have yet to figure out why there is one. The url document mentions that one supposedly exists, and that the

Re: [Dri-devel] question on lightweight vs heavyweight locking

2003-02-19 Thread Ian Romanick
Philip Brown wrote: I've been reading http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html and the code, obviously... so I've seen references to the lightweight lock. ButI have yet to figure out why there is one. The url document mentions that one supposedly exists, and that the