[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/12] Completion of i915 VMAs

[Ben Widawsky]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:42:40AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 07:08:07PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > Map, and unmap are logical functionalities to add for an address space.
> > They do more or less what you'd think: take an object and create a
> > mapping via the GPU's page tables to that object. Of course, without the
> > rest of the patches from [3], there will only ever be 1 address space,
> > with the weird aliasing ppgtt behind it. One thing which I toyed with,
> > but opted not to include was to directly pass obj,vm to map/unmap
> > instead of doing the slightly less pretty way as I've done in execbuf
> > and bind. In the future I think I may just do this, but for now it's not
> > a big win as the end result wasn't much better (and I didn't get it to
> > immediately work).
> 
> That's annoying. Currently we use map to refer to the process of making
> a CPU mapping to the objects and bind for doing it from the GPU's
> perspective. And since the CPU map may well require a GPU map, keeping
> the nomenclature distinct helps easily confused me.
> -Chris
> 
> -- 
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

I can rename it, I expect you will review it.

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Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center