From: "Thomas Hellström (Intel)" <thomas_os@shipmail.org>
To: "Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch, matthew.william.auld@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] drm/ttm: flip over the range manager to self allocated nodes
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 17:48:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f792308b-389d-67da-0cf8-667c1e6ac96d@shipmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210430092508.60710-6-christian.koenig@amd.com>
Hi, Christian,
On 4/30/21 11:25 AM, Christian König wrote:
> Start with the range manager to make the resource object the base
> class for the allocated nodes.
>
> While at it cleanup a lot of the code around that.
Could you briefly describe the design thoughts around this. While it's
clear to me that we want separately allocated struct ttm_resource
objects, it's not clear why the visibility of those are pushed down the
interfaces to the range managers?
In addition to the need for a separately allocated struct ttm_resource,
when looking at TTM-ify i915 I've come across a couple of problems.
1) People have started abusing the range manager interface to attach
device private data to the mm_node, or probably really to the struct
ttm_resource. That makes it very unclear what the input needed for the
managers really are. For examle what members of the bo does the range
manager really use and why? Same for the struct ttm_resource. I think in
a perfect world, the interface to these range managers should be a
struct ttm_placement as input and as output an opaque mm node and
perhaps a way to convert that mm node to something useful like a range
or a scatter-gather table.
2) But that doesn't really address the problem of drivers wanting to
attach device private data to a struct ttm_resource, which at some point
caused someone to add a bo to the manager interface. The novueau driver
attaches a "kind" member to the mm node that it pulls out of the bo; The
i915 driver would want to cache an st table and a radix tree to cache
index-to-pfn maps.
3) In the end we'd probably want the kmap iterator methods and the
various mapping funtions to be methods of the struct ttm_resource.
So basically here
1) Would help making range managers with various functionality simple to
write and share.
2) Would help drivers attach private data to a struct ttm_resource
without abusing the manager interfaces,
3) Would help clean up the mapping code.
But at least 2) here would probably mean that we need a driver callback
to allocate a struct ttm_resource rather than having the managers
allocate them. Drivers can then embed them in private structs if needed.
Or is there a way to achieve these goals or something similar with the
approach you are taking here?
Thanks,
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-29 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-30 9:24 [PATCH 01/13] drm/ttm: add ttm_sys_manager v2 Christian König
2021-04-30 9:24 ` [PATCH 02/13] drm/ttm: always initialize the full ttm_resource Christian König
2021-04-30 12:05 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 12:51 ` Christian König
2021-04-30 9:24 ` [PATCH 03/13] drm/ttm: properly allocate sys resource during swapout Christian König
2021-04-30 10:22 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 9:24 ` [PATCH 04/13] drm/ttm: rename bo->mem and make it a pointer Christian König
2021-04-30 9:25 ` [PATCH 05/13] drm/ttm: allocate resource object instead of embedding it Christian König
2021-04-30 11:19 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 9:25 ` [PATCH 06/13] drm/ttm: flip over the range manager to self allocated nodes Christian König
2021-04-30 13:14 ` Matthew Auld
2021-05-29 15:48 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel) [this message]
2021-05-30 16:51 ` Christian König
2021-05-31 8:56 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2021-04-30 9:25 ` [PATCH 07/13] drm/ttm: flip over the sys " Christian König
2021-04-30 13:16 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 15:04 ` Matthew Auld
2021-05-03 11:08 ` Christian König
2021-04-30 9:25 ` [PATCH 08/13] drm/amdgpu: revert "drm/amdgpu: stop allocating dummy GTT nodes" Christian König
2021-05-05 16:48 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 9:25 ` [PATCH 09/13] drm/amdgpu: switch the GTT backend to self alloc Christian König
2021-04-30 14:43 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 9:25 ` [PATCH 10/13] drm/amdgpu: switch the VRAM " Christian König
2021-04-30 14:53 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 9:25 ` [PATCH 11/13] drm/nouveau: switch the TTM backends " Christian König
2021-04-30 15:02 ` Matthew Auld
2021-05-03 11:14 ` Christian König
2021-05-05 16:46 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 9:25 ` [PATCH 12/13] drm/vmwgfx: " Christian König
2021-05-05 16:49 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 9:25 ` [PATCH 13/13] drm/ttm: flip the switch for driver allocated resources Christian König
2021-05-03 16:15 ` Nirmoy
2021-05-05 16:44 ` Matthew Auld
2021-04-30 10:09 ` [PATCH 01/13] drm/ttm: add ttm_sys_manager v2 Matthew Auld
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