New Intel Hardware Context Support Patches

phoronix

Administrator

Join Date: Jan 2007

Posts: 64679
- Share
- Tweet
#1

New Intel Hardware Context Support Patches

18 March 2012, 09:40 PM

Phoronix: New Intel Hardware Context Support Patches

Arriving this weekend for the open-source Intel DRM graphics driver for the Linux kernel were new -- nearly re-written -- hardware context support patches...

New Intel Hardware Context Support Patches - Phoronix

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA3Mjc

Phoronix, Linux Hardware Reviews, Linux hardware benchmarks, Linux server benchmarks, Linux benchmarking, Desktop Linux, Linux performance, Open Source graphics, Linux How To, Ubuntu benchmarks, Ubuntu hardware, Phoronix Test Suite
Tags: None
MuPuF

Nouveau

Join Date: Feb 2009

Posts: 381
- Share
- Tweet
#2

19 March 2012, 03:16 AM

Cost of context switching?

Hey, I wonder how expensive is the hw context switching on Intel.

On Nouveau, it takes an awful lot of time and can be a real problem if many channels are allocated!
Comment

Announcement