[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: Generalise GPU activity tracking

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2019-01-31 11:25:10)
> 
> On 30/01/2019 20:50, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > We currently track GPU memory usage inside VMA, such that we never
> > release memory used by the GPU until after it has finished accessing it.
> > However, we may want to track other resources aside from VMA, or we may
> > want to split a VMA into multiple independent regions and track each
> > separately. For this purpose, generalise our request tracking (akin to
> > struct reservation_object) so that we can embed it into other objects.
> > 
> 
> Changelog where art thou?

The changes are patches 2 & 3!

This patch is just about moving code, we haven't come up with a new name
so nothing to change here yet. But I wanted to discuss to the idea of
immediately parking and using global slabs.
-Chris