[Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 1/5] dma-buf: add optional invalidate_mappings callback v2

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 06:47:57PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> Am 20.03.2018 um 15:08 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > [SNIP]
> > For the in-driver reservation path (CS) having a slow-path that grabs a
> > temporary reference, drops the vram lock and then locks the reservation
> > normally (using the acquire context used already for the entire CS) is a
> > bit tricky, but totally feasible. Ttm doesn't do that though.
> 
> That is exactly what we do in amdgpu as well, it's just not very efficient
> nor reliable to retry getting the right pages for a submission over and over
> again.

Out of curiosity, where's that code? I did read the ttm eviction code way
back, and that one definitely didn't do that. Would be interesting to
update my understanding.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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