[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 06/10] i965: Add virtual memory allocator infrastructure to brw_bufmgr.

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Kenneth Graunke (2018-05-04 08:59:43)
> For full-PPGTT platforms, we definitely don't want to keep relocs.  For
> non-full-PPGTT platforms...yeah, we can assign addresses...but if we
> conflict with some other process...the kernel will just move them
> anyway.  I guess we could choose random addresses and srand based on the
> process ID or GEM context ID or something.  I'm not sure it's worth it?

If you do have a reloc heavy workload, yes I expect it to pay off. First
find a workload you care about :)
-Chris