Re: 2.6.14-rt4: via DRM errors

From: Lee Revell
Date: Fri Nov 25 2005 - 14:23:39 EST


On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 20:13 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> of course sometimes having less but more coarse locks is actually
> faster. Taking/dropping a lock is not free. far from it.

True but couldn't it be a problem for devices like unichrome where you
have 3D and MPEG acceleration and they have to play nice? It just seems
like there may have been an implicit assumption that devices only
support one type of hardware acceleration.

Lee

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