[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 02/17] drm/i915: Move vma vfuns to adddress_space
Chris Wilson
chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Apr 14 09:12:30 PDT 2015
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:09:27PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:35:12PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > They change with the address space and not with each vma, so move them
> > into the right pile of vfuncs. Save 2 pointers per vma and clarifies
> > the code.
>
> Using per-vma vfunc allows you make, for example, the pagetables
> themselves an ordinary vma in the GGTT and so operate identically wrt to
> the shrinker and eviction logic - removing some very fragile code in the
> process.
A vma->ops would be an interesting compromise.
-Chris
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