Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Fri, 08 May 2009 06:41:00 +1000
Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 21:27 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > In fact I agree, but there's a catch.  The way in which TuxOnIce
> > operates LRU pages is based on some assumptions that may or may not
> > be satisfied in future, so if we decide to merge it, then we'll
> > have to make sure these assumptions will be satisfied.  That in
> > turn is going to require quite some discussion I guess.
> 
> Agreed. That's why I've got that GEMS patch - it's putting pages on
> the LRU that don't satisfy the former assumptions: they are used
> during hibernating and need to be atomically copied. If there are
> further developments in that area, I would hope we could just extend
> what's been done with GEMS.

Another option here would be to suspend all DRM operations earlier.
The suspend hook for i915 already does this, but maybe it needs to
happen sooner?  We'll probably want a generic DRM suspend hook soon too
(as the radeon memory manager lands) to shut down GPU activity in the
suspend and hibernate cases.

All that assumes I understand what's going on here though. :)  It
appears you delay saving the GEM (just GEM by the way, for Graphics/GPU
Execution Manager) backing store until late to avoid having the pages
move around out from under you?

Thanks,
Jesse