[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Derive GEM requests from dma-fence

[Dave Gordon]

On 12/12/15 15:34, Chris Wilson wrote:
> dma-buf provides a generic fence class for interoperation between
> drivers. Internally we use the request structure as a fence, and so with
> only a little bit of interfacing we can rebase those requests on top of
> dma-buf fences. This will allow us, in the future, to pass those fences
> back to userspace or between drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c        |   2 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c            |   2 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c    | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h    |  25 ++----
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c      |   2 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c |   2 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_breadcrumbs.c   |   3 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c           |   2 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c    |  14 ++--
>   9 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

This seems to be doing the same thing as John Harrison's patch

[PATCH 05/13] drm/i915: Convert requests to use struct fence

Likewise you both have a patch to remove lazy coherency, and various 
other duplications:

[PATCH 06/13] drm/i915: Removed now redudant parameter to 
i915_gem_request_completed()
[PATCH 08/13] drm/i915: Delay the freeing of requests until retire time

These will have to be unified; we just have to pick exactly how to make 
each of these improvements.

.Dave.