[RFC][PATCH v6 3/7] drm: ttm_pool: Rework ttm_pool_free_page to allow us to use it as a function pointer

Christian König christian.koenig at amd.com
Tue Feb 9 12:13:58 UTC 2021



Am 05.02.21 um 20:47 schrieb John Stultz:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:28 AM Christian König
> <christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
>> Am 05.02.21 um 09:06 schrieb John Stultz:
>>> This refactors ttm_pool_free_page(), and by adding extra entries
>>> to ttm_pool_page_dat, we then use it for all allocations, which
>>> allows us to simplify the arguments needed to be passed to
>>> ttm_pool_free_page().
>> This is a clear NAK since the peer page data is just a workaround for
>> the DMA-API hack to grab pages from there.
>>
>> Adding this to all pages would increase the memory footprint drastically.
> Yea, that's a good point!  Hrm... bummer. I'll have to see if there's
> some other way I can get the needed context for the free from the
> generic page-pool side.

What exactly is the problem here? As far as I can see we just have the 
lru entry (list_head) and the pool.

How the lru is cast to the page can be completely pool implementation 
specific.

Regards,
Christian.

>
> Thanks so much for the review!
> -john



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