[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/7] mesa: Add usage history bitfield to buffer objects

[Ian Romanick]

On 10/01/2014 09:06 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Chris Forbes <chrisf at ijw.co.nz> wrote:
>> In the drivers, we occasionally want to reallocate the backing
>> store for a buffer object; often to avoid waiting for the GPU
>> to be finished with the previous contents.
>>
>> At the point that happens, we don't have a good way of determining
>> where else the buffer object may be bound, and so no good way of
>> determining which dirty flags need to be raised -- it's fairly
>> expensive to go looking at all the possible binding points.
> 
> I don't think so. We do look at all binding points in radeon drivers.
> See for example r600_invalidate_buffer. It also only flags the binding
> points where the buffer being invalidated is bound and only those
> bindings points are updated.
> 
> Also I don't see a point in adding things to mtypes.h that are only
> used by one driver.

Well... it's only used in one driver because only one driver has been
modified to use it. :)

The question is whether the radeon or nvc0 drivers could use this to
avoid burning some CPU cycles.  If they can't, is there some changes to
the patches that would enable them to do so.

> BTW, I can only see patches 1, 5, 6 on mesa-dev. Where's the rest?
> 
> Marek
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