Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/4] Further multi-gt handling

[Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Jani,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 03:25:15PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2022, Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com> wrote:
> > Now that MTL is going to start providing two GTs, there are a few more
> > places in the driver that need to iterate over each GT instead of
> > operating directly on gt0.  Also some more deliberate cleanup is needed,
> > in cases where we fail GT/engine initialization after the first GT has
> > been fully setup.
> 
> Hijacking the thread a bit, not to be considered a blocker for this
> series:
> 
> Is there a plan to kzalloc i915->gt[0] too in intel_gt_probe_all() so we
> wouldn't need to have intel_gt gt0 in struct drm_i915_private? And the
> to_gt() inline would return i915->gt[0] instead of &i915->gt0? (And
> maybe i915_drv.h wouldn't need the definition of intel_gt anymore! :o)

I had a patch that was doing that and sent it long time ago and
it was rejected.

I can't find it but I will check better to see what was the
reason for it to be rejected.

Andi