[RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Ville Syrjälä
<ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> >  - implicit fences also needs one fence per plane/fb, so it will be good to
>> >    match with that.
>>
>> We would actually need a fence per object rather than per fb.
>
> I guess you could overcome this by automagically creating a merged fence
> for a multi-obj fb?

Yeah, and the android hwc does this for you already. You get passed a
surface (or whatever it's called exactly) plus a fence, and the
surface contains the gralloc/native buffer thing, which would contain
multiple dma-buf handles if your hw does planar stuff that way.

I think everyone else who wants explicit fencing will go with the same
or similar model, so it's just about implicit fencing. And there we
can easily construct the fence_collection from a drm_framebuffer
ourselves with a small helper in each driver (or shared one in cma,
although cma doesn't yet grok reserverations/implicitly attached
fences).
-Daniel
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