[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 05/37] drm/i915/region: support volatile objects

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Sat Aug 10 10:26:02 UTC 2019


Quoting Matthew Auld (2019-08-09 23:26:11)
> Volatile objects are marked as DONTNEED while pinned, therefore once
> unpinned the backing store can be discarded.

Do we also have the concept of non-volatile backing store, e.g. shmemfs
(non-volatile) vs stolen (volatile)?
-Chris


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