New Intel Hardware Context Support Patches

[phoronix]

Phoronix: New Intel Hardware Context Support Patches

Arriving this weekend for the open-source Intel DRM graphics driver for the Linux kernel were new -- nearly re-written -- hardware context support patches...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA3Mjc

[MùPùF]

Hey, I wonder how expensive is the hw context switching on Intel.

On Nouveau, it takes an awful lot of time and can be a real problem if many channels are allocated!