[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 01/11] drm/i915: Add support for mapping an object page by page

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:32:11AM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> >diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h
> >index b448ad8..5f86596 100644
> >--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h
> >+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.h
> >@@ -317,6 +317,11 @@ struct i915_address_space {
> >  			    uint64_t start,
> >  			    uint64_t length,
> >  			    bool use_scratch);
> >+	void (*insert_page)(struct i915_address_space *vm,
> >+			    dma_addr_t addr,
> >+			    uint64_t offset,
> >+			    enum i915_cache_level cache_level,
> >+			    u32 flags);
> >  	void (*insert_entries)(struct i915_address_space *vm,
> >  			       struct sg_table *st,
> >  			       uint64_t start,
> 
> Why not extend the current API to support start page offset and
> number of pages? Could default to full object like today if zero.
> Eg:
> 
>  void (*insert_entries)(struct i915_address_space *vm,
> 			struct sg_table *st,
> +			unsigned page_offset,
> +			unsigned num_pages,

Ouch. That would be quite slow for the insert_page() use case of
page-by-page looping.

> 			uint64_t start,
> 			enum i915_cache_level cache_level,
> 			u32 flags);
> 
> That way we would not have two functions for effectively the same
> thing operating on different type of input parameters.
>
> If extending insert_entries is not preferable, then still we could
> add another compatible one, like insert_entries_range or something,
> and then both could share the same underlying implementation for
> less code.
> 
> Like this, this patch already does not match current codebase - see
> assert_rpm_atomic_begin in insert_entries.
> 
> Also if API between the two was compatible there would be no need
> for i915_gem_object_get_dma_address() and i915_gem_object_get_page()
> could be used instead.

The point was to write a lowlevel analog to provide a complementary API
to insert_entries that could be used for everywhere the we wanted to peek
through the GTT without even touching an object, i.e. for cases where we
might allocate a scratch page and temporarily put it into the GTT.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre