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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch,
	Zach Reizner <zachr@google.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/vgem: Attach sw fences to exported vGEM dma-buf (ioctl)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:23:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160712142311.GQ23520@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160712110403.GQ6157@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:04:03PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:44:17PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 04:24:45PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > That doesn't fit the out-of-order unbound nature of the interface. The
> > > interface is just a collection of fences that userspace associates with
> > > the buffer that it may signal at any time. (Having no strict timeline is
> > > an advantage!)
> > 
> > Fences on the same timeline are supposed to be signalled in-order. If you
> > want full out-of-order fences then you need to grab a new timeline number
> > for each one. Drivers can and do merge fences on the same timeline and
> > just carry the one with the largest seqno around.
> 
> Ugh. Timelines simply don't mean anything everywhere - a very leaky
> abstration.
> 
> Nevertheless, a fence_context per vgem_fence would do the trick.

Yeah it's a bit meh, but allocating plenty of them is how we currently
cope with it. I suggested that we have a special FENCE_TIMELINE_UNORDERED
flag (we need it for fence_array too), but that wasn't popular. I still
expect it to happen eventually ;-)
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-11 13:08 drm/vgem fixes and new ioctl for testing prime Chris Wilson
2016-07-11 13:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] drm/vgem: Fix mmaping Chris Wilson
2016-07-11 13:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] drm/vgem: Enable dmabuf interface for export Chris Wilson
2016-07-12 10:45   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-07-11 13:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] drm/vgem: Attach sw fences to exported vGEM dma-buf (ioctl) Chris Wilson
2016-07-11 15:10   ` Gustavo Padovan
2016-07-11 15:24     ` Chris Wilson
2016-07-12 10:44       ` Daniel Vetter
2016-07-12 11:04         ` Chris Wilson
2016-07-12 14:23           ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2016-07-11 14:02 ` ✗ Ro.CI.BAT: failure for series starting with [1/3] drm/vgem: Fix mmaping Patchwork
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-06-23 14:35 [PATCH 1/3] " Chris Wilson
2016-06-23 14:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] drm/vgem: Attach sw fences to exported vGEM dma-buf (ioctl) Chris Wilson
2016-06-30 15:40   ` Zach Reizner

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