v3: Fix for GPU/CPU thrashing in DPMS off state

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Dec 19 08:27:50 PST 2012


On Mit, 2012-12-19 at 10:35 -0500, Ilija Hadzic wrote: 
> The following patch series is the version 3 of the fix that prevents
> the application from rendering at uncontrolled rate as explained
> in this thread:
> 
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2012-December/024027.html
> 
> In this series all attempts to be "smart" and emulate the real
> CRTC behavior have been thrown away. Instead, when CRTC is disabled
> we just defer the swaps by a hard-coded constant, with the sole
> objective to prevent unecessary power dissipation.

This series is

Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer at amd.com>


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