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Message-ID: <20190124164447.3dwwampprzofwbyr@DESKTOP-E1NTVVP.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:44:48 +0000
From: Brian Starkey <Brian.Starkey@....com>
To: "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
CC: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
Liam Mark <lmark@...eaurora.org>,
Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, nd <nd@....com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/14] staging: android: ion: Do not sync CPU cache on
map/unmap
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:04:46AM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> On 1/23/19 11:11 AM, Brian Starkey wrote:
[snip]
>
> I'm very new to all this, so any pointers to history in this area are
> appreciated.
>
[snip]
>
> > In case you didn't come across it already, the effort which seems to
> > have gained the most "air-time" recently is
> > https://github.com/cubanismo/allocator, which is still a userspace
> > module (perhaps some concepts from there could go into the kernel?),
> > but makes some attempts at generic constraint solving. It's also not
> > really moving anywhere at the moment.
> >
>
> Very interesting, I'm going to have to stare at this for a bit.
In which case, some reading material that might be of interest :-)
https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2016/Program/Unix_Device_Memory_Allocation.pdf
https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2017/jones_allocator.pdf
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-November/177632.html
-Brian
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