On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 12:34 PM Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Quoting Bas Nieuwenhuizen (2020-07-15 11:23:35) > > Hi Chris, > > > > My concern with going in this direction was that we potentially allow > > an application to allocate a lot of kernel memory but not a lot of fds > > by creating lots of fences and then closing the fds but never > > signaling them. Is that not an issue? > > I did look to see if there was a quick way we could couple into the > sync_file release itself to remove the syncpt from the timeline, but > decided that for a debug feature, it wasn't a pressing concern. > > Maybe now is the time to ask: are you using sw_sync outside of > validation? Yes, this is used as part of the Android stack on Chrome OS (need to see if ChromeOS specific, but https://source.android.com/devices/graphics/sync#sync_timeline suggests not) > -Chris _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
