[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/5] drm/i915: Expose list of clients in sysfs

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Dec 16 13:17:31 UTC 2019


Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2019-12-16 12:07:01)
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> 
> Expose a list of clients with open file handles in sysfs.
> 
> This will be a basis for a top-like utility showing per-client and per-
> engine GPU load.
> 
> Currently we only expose each client's pid and name under opaque numbered
> directories in /sys/class/drm/card0/clients/.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> /sys/class/drm/card0/clients/3/name: Xorg
> /sys/class/drm/card0/clients/3/pid: 5664

Should we even bother having the name here? And just have a link to pid
instead? Contemplating even pidfd for ultramodern.
-Chris


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