On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 19:59 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:27:36PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote: > > So far we created a sparse dma scatter list for gem objects, where each > > scatter list entry represented only a single page. In the future we'll > > have to handle compact scatter lists too where each entry can consist of > > multiple pages, for example for objects imported through PRIME. > > > > The previous patches have already fixed up all other places where the > > i915 driver _walked_ these lists. Here we have the corresponding fix to > > _create_ compact lists. It's not a performance or memory footprint > > improvement, but it helps to better exercise the new logic. > > > > Reference: http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg33917.html > > Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx> > > Just a quick question: Have you checked with printks or so that we indeed > create such coalesced sg entries every once in a while? Yes, quite often that was the case, so we at least are really testing the thing.. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
