I have no strong opinion with that, this patch is Acked-by: Chunming Zhou <david1.zhou at amd.com> On 2017å¹´07æ??04æ?¥ 15:43, Christian König wrote: >> Maybe we just need rename GART functions to SYSVM. > That is essentially what I've did. > > In recent discussion we a couple of times the problem that we need to > distinguish between the system VM and the GART/GTT domain from TTM. > > See starting with R6xx I think we used the system VM to implement the > old GART functionality from AGP days. > > The name stayed the same over the years, but we ran into the problem > that we wanted to reduce the size of the system VM to save VRAM while > still having a large GTT domain in TTM to map all system memory at the > same time. > > So that the TTM parts stay the same is intentional. > > Regards, > Christian. > > Am 04.07.2017 um 05:13 schrieb Zhou, David(ChunMing): >> Distinguishing system vm and general vm is a good idea, but I'm not >> sure about renaming GTT to sysvm part, especially TTM TT stays there. >> Maybe we just need rename GART functions to SYSVM. >> >> Regards, >> David Zhou >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: amd-gfx [mailto:amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On >> Behalf Of Christian K?nig >> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2017 5:45 PM >> To: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org >> Subject: [PATCH 07/11] drm/amdgpu: rename GART to SYSVM >> >> From: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com> >> >> Just mass rename all names related to the hardware GART/GTT functions >> to SYSVM. >> >> The name of symbols related to the TTM TT domain stay the same. >> >> This should improve the distinction between the two. >> >> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com> >> --- >
