[Nouveau] [PATCH] nouveau: add coherent BO attribute

Martin Peres martin.peres at free.fr
Tue May 19 23:53:52 PDT 2015


On 20/05/15 08:11, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Maarten Lankhorst
> <maarten at mblankhorst.nl> wrote:
>> Op 15-05-15 om 09:11 schreef Alexandre Courbot:
>>> Re-pinging Marteen on an email address that still exists :P
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 03/14/2015 04:33 AM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Op 13-03-15 om 07:27 schreef Alexandre Courbot:
>>>>>>> Add a flag allowing Nouveau to specify that an object should be coherent
>>>>>>> at allocation time. This is required for some class of objects like
>>>>>>> fences which are randomly-accessed by both the CPU and GPU. This flag
>>>>>>> instructs the kernel driver to make sure the object remains coherent
>>>>>>> even on architectures for which coherency is not guaranteed by the bus.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
>>>>>> I don't see a problem with this patch, but similar patches to intel to
>>>>>> libdrm have been shot down when the changes weren't in an official kernel
>>>>>> yet, so I think this should wait until the change is at least in drm-next.
>>>>>> ;-)
>>>>> Sounds good. I will ping you again once the kernel change reaches -next.
>>>> Hi Marteen,
>>>>
>>>> The kernel change required for this patch is now in -next. Do you
>>>> think we can merge it now?
>> I think it would be ok to merge now.
> Great - who could do this? :P

I could do it. Please provide me with the patch with the necessary R-b 
and I can push it to our libdrm (and/or mesa).


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