Vulkan allows the application to decide whether it wants the allocation to be host visible and device local. If we drop the flag, what will happen if we did not set the NO_CPU_ACCESS flag? Will it fail the map in case the allocation could be placed in invisible heap then? Thanks. Best Regards, David On 29 Jun 2017, at 11:03 PM, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com<mailto:maraeo at gmail.com>> wrote: Do you have any concern if we also stop using the CPU_ACCESS flag on radeon? Thanks, Marek On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Christian König <deathsimple at vodafone.de<mailto:deathsimple at vodafone.de>> wrote: Yeah, I was thinking something similar. See the intention behind CPU_ACCESS_REQUIRED is to always guarantee that CPU access is immediately possible. If you ask me that is not really useful for the UMD and was never meant to be used by Mesa (only the closed source UMD and some kernel internal use cases). I would like to keep the behavior in the kernel driver as it is, but we should really stop using this as a hint in Mesa. Regards, Christian. Am 29.06.2017 um 16:41 schrieb Marek Olšák: Hi, Given how our memory manager works and the guesswork that UMDs have to do to determine whether to set the flag, I think the flag isn't useful. I'm proposing that CPU_ACCESS_REQUIRED: - will be deprecated. - It will remain to be accepted by the kernel driver, but it will either not have any effect, or it will serve as a hint that might or might not be followed. - The only flag that UMDs are expected to set with regard to CPU access is NO_CPU_ACCESS. The main motivation is the reduction of "virtual" heaps for UMD buffer suballocators and reusable buffer pools. A higher number of heaps means that more memory can be wasted by UMDs. Opinions? Thanks, Marek _______________________________________________ amd-gfx mailing list amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org<mailto:amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx _______________________________________________ amd-gfx mailing list amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org<mailto:amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/attachments/20170630/039c48a8/attachment-0001.html>
