On 10/07/2011 11:30 PM, Marek Olšák wrote:
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Jerome Glisse<j.gli...@gmail.com> wrote:
I should have look at the patch long ago ... anyway i think a better
approach would be to expose fence id as 64bits unsigned to each
userspace client. I was thinking of mapping a page readonly (same page
as the one gpu write back) at somespecific offset in drm file (bit
like sarea but readonly so no lock). Each time userspace submit a
command stream it would get the fence id associated with the command
stream. It would then be up to userspace to track btw read or write
and do appropriate things. The kernel code would be simple (biggest
issue is finding an offset we can use for that), it would be fast as
no round trip to kernel to know the last fence.
Each fence seq would be valid only for a specific ring (only future
gpu impacted here, maybe cayman).
So no change to ttm, just change to radeon to return fence seq and to
move to an unsigned 64. Issue would be when gpu write back is
disabled, then we would either need userspace to call somethings like
bo wait or to other ioctl to get the kernel to update the copy, copy
would be updated in the irq handler too so at least it get updated
anytime something enable irq.
I am having a hard time understanding what you are saying.
Anyway, I had some read and write usage tracking in the radeon winsys.
That worked well for driver-private resources, but it was a total fail
for the ones shared with the DDX. I needed this bo_wait optimization
to work with multiple processes. That's the whole point why I am doing
this in the kernel.
Marek
At one XDS meeting in Cambridge an IMHO questionable decision was taken to
try to keep synchronization operations like this in user-space,
communicating necessary
info among involved components. In this case you'd then need to send
fence sequences
down the DRI2 protocol to the winsys.
However, if you at one point want to do user-space suballocation of
kernel buffers,
that's something you need to do anyway, because the kernel is not aware
that user-space fences
the suballocations separately.
/Thomas
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