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From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Pawel Osciak <posciak@chromium.org>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHv2 02/12] videobuf2: handle V4L2 buffer cache flags
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:25:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b1d9855-48dd-ecfe-7a7c-5998f76c3cd8@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200219081340.GA122464@google.com>

On 2/19/20 9:13 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (20/02/19 09:07), Hans Verkuil wrote:
> [..]
>>> +static void set_buffer_cache_hints(struct vb2_queue *q,
>>> +				   struct vb2_buffer *vb,
>>> +				   struct v4l2_buffer *b)
>>> +{
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * DMA exporter should take care of cache syncs, so we can avoid
>>> +	 * explicit ->prepare()/->finish() syncs. For other ->memory types
>>> +	 * we always need ->prepare() or/and ->finish() cache sync.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	if (q->memory == VB2_MEMORY_DMABUF) {
>>> +		vb->need_cache_sync_on_finish = 0;
>>> +		vb->need_cache_sync_on_prepare = 0;
>>> +		return;
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>> +	if (!q->allow_cache_hints)
>>> +		return;
>>> +
>>> +	vb->need_cache_sync_on_prepare = 1;
>>
>> This needs a comment explaining why prepare is set to 1 by default. I remember
>> we discussed this earlier, and the conclusion of that discussion needs to be
>> documented here in a comment.
> 
> Please ignore this patch. There is a follow up which sets _both_
> flags by default. The purpose is to preserve the existing behaviour,
> we can do all sorts of incremental changes (clear flags in more cases,
> etc.) later on. Do you want me to document this in the code?

Yes please!

Regards,

	Hans

> 
> 	-ss
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-19  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-04  2:56 [RFC][PATCHv2 00/12] Implement V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE_* flags Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 01/12] videobuf2: add cache management members Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  8:05   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-19  8:16     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  8:27       ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 02/12] videobuf2: handle V4L2 buffer cache flags Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-05  8:13   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  8:07   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-19  8:13     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  8:25       ` Hans Verkuil [this message]
2020-02-19  8:46   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 03/12] videobuf2: add V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT flag Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-13  7:08   ` Tomasz Figa
2020-02-19  8:19   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-19  8:56   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-25  7:45     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 04/12] videobuf2: add queue memory consistency parameter Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 05/12] videobuf2: handle V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT flag Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  8:25   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-19  8:59     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  9:04       ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-19  8:48   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-19  9:05     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  9:11       ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 06/12] videobuf2: factor out planes prepare/finish functions Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 07/12] videobuf2: do not sync caches when we are allowed not to Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 08/12] videobuf2: check ->synced flag in prepare() and finish() Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 09/12] videobuf2: let user-space know if driver supports cache hints Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  8:33   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-19  8:45     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  8:56       ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 10/12] videobuf2: add begin/end cpu_access callbacks to dma-contig Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 11/12] videobuf2: add begin/end cpu_access callbacks to dma-sg Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  8:35   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-02-19  8:42     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-04  2:56 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 12/12] videobuf2: don't test db_attach in dma-contig prepare and finish Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-02-19  8:53 ` [RFC][PATCHv2 00/12] Implement V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE_* flags Hans Verkuil
2020-02-26 11:20   ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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