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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Foss <robert.foss@collabora.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	ML dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"open list:VIRTIO GPU DRIVER" 
	<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.com>,
	Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] drm/virtio: add in/out fence support for explicit synchronization
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 11:13:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181109101354.dc7cv4i4etu3bkhh@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACvgo53vCBbgmu4OV4e0WeOYQSXNk=3qwyRBtPx+XAcCSZO8aQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 05:25:05PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 11:42, Robert Foss <robert.foss@collabora.com> wrote:
> >
> > When the execbuf call receives an in-fence it will get the dma_fence
> > related to that fence fd and wait on it before submitting the draw call.
> >
> > On the out-fence side we get fence returned by the submitted draw call
> > and attach it to a sync_file and send the sync_file fd to userspace. On
> > error -1 is returned to userspace.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Foss <robert.foss@collabora.com>
> > Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes since v3:
> >  - Move all in_fence handling to the same VIRTGPU_EXECBUF_FENCE_FD_IN block
> Fwiw my suggestion was to explicitly document whether the IOCTL can
> support, simultaneously, IN and OUT fence.

Yes, that would be good.  Code looks like it is supposed to work, but
explicitly saying so in the commit message would be nice.

Also: should we use separate fields for in/out fds?

cheers,
  Gerd


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-09 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-05 11:41 [PATCH v4 0/4] virgl: fence fd support Robert Foss
2018-11-05 11:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] drm/virtio: add virtio_gpu_alloc_fence() Robert Foss
2018-11-05 11:41 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] drm/virtio: add uapi for in and out explicit fences Robert Foss
2018-11-05 11:41 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] drm/virtio: add in/out fence support for explicit synchronization Robert Foss
2018-11-05 17:25   ` Emil Velikov
2018-11-05 18:08     ` Robert Foss
2018-11-09 10:13     ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2018-11-09 17:13       ` Robert Foss
2018-11-12  9:10         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-11-05 11:41 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] drm/virtio: bump driver version after explicit synchronization addition Robert Foss

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