Re: Why is nouveau using a separate swap storage?

[Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>]

Am 17.09.20 um 12:51 schrieb Ben Skeggs:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 20:06, Christian König
> <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > just another TTM feature which is only used by nouveau.
> >
> > We have this bo->bo.persistent_swap_storage pointer which is only set by
> > nouveau to the GEM filp and used when a BO is swapped to a shmem file.
> >
> > As far as I can see this doesn't make any sense at all? What is the
> > background here.
> No specific reason I can remember, likely cargo-cult from very very
> early versions of TTM/GEM stuff.

Ok, going to send something out to drop this then.

Thanks,
Christian.

> Ben.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Christian.
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