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authorAlex Deucher2012-01-03 15:48:38 +0100
committerDave Airlie2012-01-05 11:07:10 +0100
commit28eebb703e28bc455ba704adb1026f76649b768c (patch)
treec6e22d33e869d42d7d441ddc44c7e4bf2008d28b /drivers/gpu
parentdrm/radeon: allocate semaphore from the ib pool (diff)
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drm/radeon/kms: disable writeback on pre-R300 asics
We often end up missing fences on older asics with writeback enabled which leads to delays in the userspace accel code, so just disable it by default on those asics. Reported-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Reported-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
index 846eeb852e59..79b08b487298 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
@@ -224,8 +224,11 @@ int radeon_wb_init(struct radeon_device *rdev)
if (radeon_no_wb == 1)
rdev->wb.enabled = false;
else {
- /* often unreliable on AGP */
if (rdev->flags & RADEON_IS_AGP) {
+ /* often unreliable on AGP */
+ rdev->wb.enabled = false;
+ } else if (rdev->family < CHIP_R300) {
+ /* often unreliable on pre-r300 */
rdev->wb.enabled = false;
} else {
rdev->wb.enabled = true;