[RFC PATCH 0/8] *** Per context fencing ***

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Mar 12 09:10:11 UTC 2020


  Hi,

> I will start with... how many timelines do we want to expose per
> context?  In my mind, it goes like
> 
> V1: 1 timeline per virtqueue (there is one timeline for ctrlq right now)
> V2: 1 timeline per context (VK and GL on different timelines)
> V3: N timelines per context (each VkQueue in a VK context gets a timeline?)
> V4: N+M timelines per context (each CPU thread also gets a timeline?!?!)
> 
> I certainly don't know if V4 is a good idea or not...

I'd expect apps use one VkQueue per thread, so v3 makes sense but v4 not
so much I think ...

cheers,
  Gerd



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