Re: agpgart: drm-populated memory types

["Thomas Hellström" <thomas@tungstengraphics.com>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> A short recap why I belive the kmalloc / vmalloc construct is necessary:
>>
>> 0) The current code uses vmalloc only.
>> 1) The allocated area ranges from 4 bytes possibly up to 512 kB, depending on
>> on the size of the AGP buffer allocated.
>> 2) Large buffers are very few. Small buffers tend to be quite many. 
>>    If we continue to use vmalloc only or another page-based scheme we will
>>    waste approx one page per buffer, together with the added slowness of
>>    vmalloc. This will severely hurt applications with a lot of small
>>    texture buffers.
>>
>> Please let me know if you still consider this unacceptable.
>>     
>
> explicit use of either kmalloc/vmalloc is fine with me; I would suggest
> an 2*PAGE_SIZE cutoff for this decision
>
>   
>>  
>> In that case I suggest sticking with vmalloc for now.
>>
>> Also please let me know if there are other parths of the patch that should be
>> reworked.
>>
>> The patch that follows is against Dave's agpgart repo.
>>
>>     
> <you forgot the patch>
>
>   
Hmm.
Still struggling with git-send-email.
Now it should have arrived.

Thanks,
Thomas