[PATCH] mieq: Provide better adaptability and diagnostics during mieq overflow

[Keith Packard]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:31:35 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:

> Yes.  This patch was motivated by some server bugs I read through in
> bugzilla today.  Apparently some DRI drivers can hog the CPU for a
> while, delaying processing.  In one of the reports, a user reported
> that setting the queue size to 4096 actually solved the issue for
> them.

One might suggest a better plan would be to fix the obvious problem :-)

How much memory does a queue of length 4096 take these days?

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keith.packard at intel.com
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