Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 06/13] drm/i915: Allow contexts to share a single timeline across all engines

2019-03-08 Thread Tvrtko Ursulin
On 08/03/2019 14:12, Chris Wilson wrote: Previously, our view has been always to run the engines independently within a context. (Multiple engines happened before we had contexts and timelines, so they always operated independently and that behaviour persisted into contexts.) However, at the use

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 06/13] drm/i915: Allow contexts to share a single timeline across all engines

2019-03-08 Thread Chris Wilson
Previously, our view has been always to run the engines independently within a context. (Multiple engines happened before we had contexts and timelines, so they always operated independently and that behaviour persisted into contexts.) However, at the user level the context often represents a singl