[Intel-gfx] [RFC] manage multiple entries of scratch page with scatterlist

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Thu Jun 12 13:49:39 CEST 2014


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Siluvery, Arun
<arun.siluvery at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Extending the sg implementation with a flag somewhere to repeat a given
>> page instead of incrementing might be possible. But will be a bit of
>> effort to push that through the process since we'll touch code outside of
>> drm.
>
> I will explore this option if we see any issues with the overhead.
> Thank you for your comments.

Yeah definitely only do this on top of the basic implementation to
avoid blocking the feature on a drawn-out discussion about the sg
changes.
-Daniel
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