ttm_resource_manager::use_tt

[Christian König]

Am 29.05.21 um 17:23 schrieb Thomas Hellström (Intel):
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> On 5/28/21 9:30 PM, Zack Rusin wrote:
>> On 5/22/21 3:13 AM, Christian König wrote:
>>> Hi Zack,
>>>
>>> IIRC that was for the VMW_PL_GMR type, wasn't it?
>>>
>>> As far as I have seen that backend was just giving out unique 
>>> numbers and it looked questionable that we allocated pages for that.
>>>
>>> E.g. when you set that flag then for each allocation we also 
>>> allocate a TTM tt structure and a corresponding page.
>>>
>>
>> Got ya. Yea, it's a little messy. I think it's correct. Those unique 
>> numbers are just identifiers for the bo's but the actual memory for 
>> them is regular system memory (e.g. we just tell our virtual 
>> hardware, here's some guest system pages and here's a unique id that 
>> we'll be using the refer to them).
>>
>>
> Yes, allocating pages for that memory type is correct. The main 
> difference to other hardware here is that on other hardware those are 
> bound to gpu using a range in a translation table. With vmwgfx they 
> are bound using a slot with a unique integer..

Ok that makes more sense then. In this case just drop the TODO.

Christian.

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