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From: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
To: Zach Reizner <zachr@google.com>
Cc: "Stéphane Marchesin" <marcheu@chromium.org>,
	"Ben Widawsky" <ben@bwidawsk.net>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vgem: implement virtual GEM
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:02:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1416578560.11338.13.camel@dmt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416529576-20471-1-git-send-email-zachr@google.com>

On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 16:26 -0800, Zach Reizner wrote:
> This patch implements the virtual GEM driver with PRIME sharing which
> allows vgem to import a gem object from other drivers for the purpose
> of mmap-ing them to userspace.

The reason I initially wanted this was to get zero-copy llvmpipe, since
(besides making GLX conformance impossible) the image transfer parts of
drisw are easily the biggest part of the runtime overhead.  Is there a
userspace consumer of this anywhere?

- ajax

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-21 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-21  0:26 [PATCH] drm/vgem: implement virtual GEM Zach Reizner
2014-11-21  8:17 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-11-21 14:02 ` Adam Jackson [this message]
2014-11-21 18:45   ` Zachary Reizner
2014-11-25  1:08     ` Zachary Reizner
2015-04-02  8:30       ` Thomas Hellstrom
2015-05-21  9:13         ` Daniel Vetter
2015-05-21 13:49           ` Thomas Hellstrom
2015-05-21 14:19             ` Rob Clark
2015-05-21 14:26               ` Thomas Hellstrom

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