On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:31:13PM +0800, Yuan, Shengquan wrote: > The patch still needs some refine, just want to check if it make sense. > > >From 104a4800ef8d10fbcc5bd830d0ef0040bd4249e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Austin Yuan <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:18:28 +0800 > Subject: [PATCH] DRM/TTM: add NO_EVICTION flag for type manager > > All buffers allocated from this manager will derive this flag, it is > convenient for two reasons: > 1) TTM_PL_FLAG_NO_EVICT needs root permission, for non-root X, > cursor/overlay buffers need NO_EVICT > 2) Some small devices (camera, video) want to use TTM, but don't want > to burden driver with heavy > swap/relocation stuff because only one or two applications run at one time. > > Signed-off-by: Austin Yuan <[email protected]>
My feeling is NAK, you can do that that by always oring TTM_PL_FLAG_NO_EVICT to the flags you give a BO allocation time. It's not hard. Cheers, Jerome ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
