Re: [Intel-gfx] [RFC 1/8] drm/i915: Have globally unique context ids, as opposed to drm file specific

2015-07-15 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:31:32AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:54:28AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:16:56PM +0530, sourab.gu...@intel.com wrote: > > > From: Sourab Gupta > > > > > > Currently the context ids are specific to a drm file insta

Re: [Intel-gfx] [RFC 1/8] drm/i915: Have globally unique context ids, as opposed to drm file specific

2015-07-15 Thread Chris Wilson
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:54:28AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:16:56PM +0530, sourab.gu...@intel.com wrote: > > From: Sourab Gupta > > > > Currently the context ids are specific to a drm file instance, as opposed > > to being globally unique. There are some usecases, w

Re: [Intel-gfx] [RFC 1/8] drm/i915: Have globally unique context ids, as opposed to drm file specific

2015-07-15 Thread Chris Wilson
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:16:56PM +0530, sourab.gu...@intel.com wrote: > From: Sourab Gupta > > Currently the context ids are specific to a drm file instance, as opposed > to being globally unique. There are some usecases, which may require > globally unique context ids. For e.g. a system level

[Intel-gfx] [RFC 1/8] drm/i915: Have globally unique context ids, as opposed to drm file specific

2015-07-15 Thread sourab . gupta
From: Sourab Gupta Currently the context ids are specific to a drm file instance, as opposed to being globally unique. There are some usecases, which may require globally unique context ids. For e.g. a system level GPU profiler tool may lean upon the context ids to associate the performance snaps

[Intel-gfx] [RFC 1/8] drm/i915: Have globally unique context ids, as opposed to drm file specific

2015-06-22 Thread sourab . gupta
From: Sourab Gupta Currently the context ids are specific to a drm file instance, as opposed to being globally unique. There are some usecases, which may require globally unique context ids. For e.g. a system level GPU profiler tool may lean upon the context ids to associate the performance snaps