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From: Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@arm.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>,
	"Jason Ekstrand" <jason.ekstrand@collabora.com>,
	nd@arm.com, "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] dma-buf: Add a capabilities directory
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 11:36:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220607103614.7ucvgdeprg4yv6li@000377403353> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uEYncnjbwq6fQMNB_5tupMASrAFEadPg9xBS3ykNgNk4A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 08:47:56AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> Two expand on this:
> 
> - compositor opens the drm render /dev node
> - compositor initializes the opengl or vulkan userspace driver on top of that
> - compositor asks that userspace driver to allocate some buffer, which
> can be pretty expensive
> - compositor asks the userspace driver to export that buffer into a dma-buf
> - compositor can finally do the test ioctl, realizes support isn't
> there and tosses the entire thing
> 
> read() on a sysfs file is so much more reasonable it's not even funny.
> 

What about dma-buf heaps? That should be a shorter route to getting a
dma-buf fd if that's all that's needed.

Cheers,
-Brian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-07 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-01 16:13 [PATCH v4] dma-buf: Add a capabilities directory Simon Ser
2022-06-01 16:51 ` Christian König
2022-06-01 18:05 ` Jason Ekstrand
2022-06-02  5:40 ` Greg KH
2022-06-02  6:17   ` Simon Ser
2022-06-02  6:25     ` Greg KH
2022-06-02  6:34       ` Simon Ser
2022-06-02  6:47         ` Daniel Vetter
2022-06-06 15:10           ` Robin Murphy
2022-06-06 15:22             ` Greg KH
2022-06-06 15:44               ` Robin Murphy
2022-06-07 10:36           ` Brian Starkey [this message]
2022-06-07 10:55           ` Greg KH
2022-06-07 14:52             ` Jason Ekstrand
2022-06-07 16:01               ` Greg KH
2022-06-08 15:15                 ` Daniel Vetter

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