Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Add soft-pinning API for execbuffer

From: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, beignet@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Add soft-pinning API for execbuffer
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:41:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150311064125.GC1872@zhen-hp.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425635047-25214-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

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On 2015.03.06 09:44:07 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Userspace can pass in an offset that it presumes the object is located
> at. The kernel will then do its utmost to fit the object into that
> location. The assumption is that userspace is handling its own object
> locations (for example along with full-ppgtt) and that the kernel will
> rarely have to make space for the user's requests.
> 

Chris, would you add libdrm support for this? e.g beignet doesn't
handle exec object itself but use libdrm.

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