linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

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Date:	Fri, 04 May 2007 09:26:09 -0700
From:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
To:	Keith Whitwell <keith@...gstengraphics.com>
Cc:	keithp@...thp.com,
	Thomas Hellström <thomas@...gstengraphics.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 16:57 +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote:

> That's a special case of a the general problem of what do you do when a 
> client submits any validation list that can't be satisfied.  Failing to 
> render isn't really an option, either the client or the memory manager 
> has to either prevent it happening in the first place or have some 
> mechanism for chopping up the dma buffer into segments which are 
> satisfiable...  Neither of which I can see an absolutely reliable way to 
> do.

I think we must return an error from the kernel and let user mode sort
it out; potentially by breaking up the operation into smaller pieces, or
(ick), simply falling back to software. Eliminating per-submit flushing
will even make this reasonably efficient as we remap the GTT as objects
are used. I don't think we want to support automatic partitioning of the
operation in the kernel; punting that step to user mode seems like a
sensible option.

Certainly presenting all of the objects to the kernel atomically will
permit it to succeed if the device can possibly perform the operation;
ejecting all existing objects and reloading with precisely the objects
proposed by the application can be done, and is even inexpensive on UMA
hardware.

> The way to get around this is to mandate that hardware supports paged 
> virtual memory...  But that seems to be a difficult trick.

Yeah, especially as we don't currently have any examples in our
environment.

-- 
keith.packard@...el.com

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