Panfrost Gallium3D Lands Its New Bifrost Scheduler In Mesa 21.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Panfrost Gallium3D Lands Its New Bifrost Scheduler In Mesa 21.1

Hitting Mesa 21.1 this morning is a scheduler implementation for Panfrost Gallium3D, the open-source Arm Mali graphics driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Panfrost-Bifrost-New-Scheduler

[xxmitsu]

Isn't panfrost already using the amdgpu kernel scheduler, which became drm-scheduler.. and now is shared between multiple drivers ?
Or, is this something else ?

[bridgman]

The kernel scheduler manages submission of commands to the GPU (where a command packet typically includes pointers to shader programs and data buffers), while at first glance this is an instruction scheduler for the shader compiler.