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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fence: Use smp_mb__before_atomic()
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:52:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140605155200.GC23993@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53905BD0.9080002@canonical.com>

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 02:00:16PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> >I don't think the question about whether we need something like fence
> >to augment dma-buf is really in doubt.  Maybe it should live somewhere
> >else, I'm not sure.  But it makes sense for it to live wherever
> >dma-buf does, as they are intended to work together.
> >
> Additionally we already have a user for this in the kernel: the GPU
> drivers that use TTM.

What about the sync code in the android directory?  I thought that was
supposed to be what GPU drivers were going to use for this type of
thing.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-05 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-28 14:26 [PATCH] fence: Use smp_mb__before_atomic() Thierry Reding
2014-05-28 20:16 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-05-28 20:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-30  8:15   ` Thierry Reding
2014-05-30 16:08     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-06-04 11:27       ` Sumit Semwal
2014-06-04 13:28         ` Thierry Reding
2014-06-04 17:49           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-06-05 11:51             ` Rob Clark
2014-06-05 12:00               ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-06-05 15:52                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-06-05 12:26               ` Sumit Semwal
2014-06-05 15:51                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-06-05 15:48               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-06-05 16:39                 ` Sumit Semwal
2014-06-05 17:49                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-06-05 21:56                 ` Rob Clark
2014-06-04 17:48         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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