[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/4] drm/i915: Remove i915_gem_context_create_gvt()

[Zhenyu Wang]

On 2019.08.09 17:16:18 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Mika Kuoppala (2019-08-09 17:12:20)
> > Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > As we are phasing out using the GEM context for internal clients that
> > > need to manipulate logical context state directly, remove the
> > > constructor for the GVT context. We are not using it for anything other
> > > than default setup and allocation of an i915_ppgtt.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > 
> > Not familiar with gvt but seems to create similar enough
> > context. 
> > 
> > Higher priority, not closed and using more strict
> > lock.
> 
> I thought they would appreciate the higher priority ;)
> 
> gvt currently doesn't have anyway for it to determine the relative
> priority of its guest vs the host, so if we set it too low we impact the
> qos of the guest, too high and its affects the qos of the host. Keeping
> it at max user though still gives the kernel some leeway to usurp it.
> And who knows one day we may get a scheduler.

yep, appreciate that. ;)

Acked-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw at linux.intel.com>

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