[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 21/33] drm/i915: Use VMA for scratch page tracking

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Aug 11 10:22:56 UTC 2016


On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 01:06:23PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> On su, 2016-08-07 at 15:45 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > +
> > +	engine->scratch = vma;
> > +	DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("%s pipe control offset: 0x%08llx\n",
> > +			 engine->name, vma->node.start);
> 
> Not related to this patch; we do seem to have confusion on scratch vs.
> pipe control terms.

I think after this it is just scratch space that is used by pipecontrol,
wa, cs flips, etc and references to it being only for pipecontrol are
gone. (We could still use the HWS for these scratch writes iirc.)
-Chris

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