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From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/mm: Support 4 GiB and larger ranges
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:07:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C72B30.5070302@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM=9twN4+F10sFqjuV5gN7eWHnbChirK+ZYd9KMNVa2v8xDNQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/26/2015 11:51 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On 23 January 2015 at 18:05, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
>>
>> The current implementation is limited by the number of addresses that
>> fit into an unsigned long. This causes problems on 32-bit Tegra where
>> unsigned long is 32-bit but drm_mm is used to manage an IOVA space of
>> 4 GiB. Given the 32-bit limitation, the range is limited to 4 GiB - 1
>> (or 4 GiB - 4 KiB for page granularity).
>>
>> This commit changes the start and size of the range to be an unsigned
>> 64-bit integer, thus allowing much larger ranges to be supported.
> This seems fine to me, Chris, Daniel or Thomas, any objections?
>
> Dave.

This is perfectly fine with me, although I'm a bit curious why the
allocation granularity of the IOVA space needs to be 1 byte?

Thanks,
Thomas



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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-27  6:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23  8:05 [PATCH] drm/mm: Support 4 GiB and larger ranges Thierry Reding
2015-01-26 22:51 ` Dave Airlie
2015-01-27  6:07   ` Thomas Hellstrom [this message]
2015-01-27  8:15     ` Thierry Reding
2015-01-27  8:31       ` Thomas Hellstrom
2015-01-27 21:26         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-01-27  9:22   ` Chris Wilson
2015-01-26 23:09 ` Alex Deucher
2015-03-04 16:20 ` Alex Deucher

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