linux-kernel - Re: CFS review

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Message-ID: <20070831064638.GA5315@code-monkey.de>
Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:46:39 +0200
From:	Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@...e-monkey.de>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
Cc:	keith.packard@...el.com, Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	airlied@...ux.ie, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: CFS review

Rene Herman [2007-08-30 09:05]:
> On 08/29/2007 09:56 PM, Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> Realised the BUGs may mean the kernel DRM people could want to be in CC...
> 
> > On 08/29/2007 05:57 PM, Keith Packard wrote:
> > 
> >> With X server 1.3, I'm getting consistent crashes with two glxgear
> >> instances running. So, if you're getting any output, it's better than my
> >> situation.
> > 
> > Before people focuss on software rendering too much -- also with 1.3.0
> > (and a Matrox Millenium G550 AGP, 32M) glxgears also works decidedly
> > crummy using hardware rendering. While I can move the glxgears window
> > itself, the actual spinning wheels stay in the upper-left corner of the
> > screen and the movement leaves a non-repainting trace on the screen.

This sounds like you're running an older version of Mesa.
The bugfix went into Mesa 6.3 and 7.0.

> > Running a second instance of glxgears in addition seems to make both
> > instances unkillable -- and when I just now forcefully killed X in this
> > situation (the spinning wheels were covering the upper left corner of all
> > my desktops) I got the below.

Running two instances of glxgears and killing them works for me, too.

I'm using xorg-server 1.3.0.0, Mesa 7.0.1 with the latest DRM bits from
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/drm.git;a=summary

I'm not running CFS though, but I guess the oops wasn't related to that.

Regards,
Tilman

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