Comment 240 for bug 541511

(In reply to comment #158)
> Created an attachment (id=35548) [details]
> v9 against latest drm-intel-next
>
> Sorry for the delay, but I want to test new patches a little before posting
> (especially now that quite a few people are on this bugs cc list). Changes vs
> v8:
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> - rebased against latest drm-intel-next (patch shrunk quite decently, yeah!).
> - increased the gtt flock size to 16 pages. Perhaps this helps.
>
The Firefox persona's background glitch is still there, I strongly think that it can be a new bug in intel driver or libdrm.

> - Merging plans: Due to the (new) failures reported with v8 I'm reluctant to
> submit the patch as-is. I'm definitely pushing everything up to the cache
> coherency checker for inclusion into -next (already submitted). But the actual
> fix probably needs to wait some more.
I think the patch should get critical priority even as-is because the vanilla kernel (also drm-intel-next) crashes in a few seconds without it.