[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 10/38] drm/i915: Create a fake object for testing huge allocations

Matthew Auld matthew.william.auld at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 13:09:45 UTC 2017


On 19 January 2017 at 11:41, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> We would like to be able to exercise huge allocations even on memory
> constrained devices. To do this we create an object that allocates only
> a few pages and remaps them across its whole range - each page is reused
> multiple times. We can therefore pretend we are rendering into a much
> larger object.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>


More information about the Intel-gfx mailing list