Comment 348 for bug 1140716

(In reply to comment #76)
> Chris, what is the upstream status for the ring kicker patch? Is that
> likely to get incorporated upstream, or do you feel it needs further polish
> before it's ready? Would this patch incur some risk of regressions in other
> areas were it be backported for inclusion in Ubuntu?

Merged for 3.10 as

commit a24a11e6b4e96bca817f854e0ffcce75d3eddd13
Author: Chris Wilson <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 14 17:52:05 2013 +0200

    drm/i915: Resurrect ring kicking for semaphores, selectively

Nothing else planned for now, but I think we can just keep this bug here open in case we stumble across a new idea. And it seems to be good honey to attrack all the me,too reports ;-)