[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 22/29] drm/i915: Handle stolen objects in pwrite

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Aug 30 17:09:16 CEST 2012


On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:56:08 +0200, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 03:41:21PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> 
> What about putting kmap/unmap abstractions into obj->ops (like the dma_buf
> interface already has)? Since the pwrite/pread code is already rather
> branch heave I hope we don't see the overhead of the indirect call even
> in microbenchmarks (haven't checked). And this way we would also neatly
> wrap up dma_bufs for pwrite (if anyone ever really wants that ...).
> 
> The kmap(_atomic) for stolen mem backed objects would boil down to doing
> the pointer arithmetic, kunmap would be just a noop.

Tried doing so. The lack of struct page for the stolen makes it more
cumbersome than it is worth, and worse confusing.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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