[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/5] drm/i915: Aliased PPGTT size abstraction

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon Jan 28 19:31:43 CET 2013


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> But as I said above, we really need to calculate how much PD space we
> need. Each PD has PAGE_SIZE of space required
> gtt_size >> 22 >> PAGE_SIZE = gtt_size >> 10

gtt_size >> 22 * PAGE_SIZE

> In hindsight, maybe doing that calculation in the code would have been
> better.
>
> Anyway, to answer the question, I think yes, it should match
> ppgtt->num_pd_entries * PAGE_SIZE

That looks much clearer imo and spells out what happens much better
(we still a pte = full page in the address space for each ppgtt pd).
Can you please apply this bikeshed to the patch?
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch



More information about the Intel-gfx mailing list