Locking

Posted Aug 16, 2015 14:24 UTC (Sun) by robclark (subscriber, #74945)
In reply to: Locking by chris.wilson
Parent article: Atomic mode setting design overview, part 2

no, but that it has a single main loop for all displays, rather than one per display, is..

I suppose you could work around it w/ async modeset (although that seems to open up a different can of worms).. either way, orthogonal to the original question about why fine grained locking is needed.