On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 09:33:18AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > i915 has some reason to want to avoid the track_pfn_remap overhead in > remap_pfn_range. Add a function to the core VM to do just that rather > than reinventing the functionality poorly in the driver. It's not _notrack it's "rely on the tracking established by the struct io_mapping". Exporting a _notrack version to drivers sounds like not something we want to ever do. So I think you want a helper which takes the io_mapping, and not something that encourages drivers to go full stupid. > Note that the remap_io_sg path does get exercises when using Xorg on my > Thinkpad X1, so this should be considered lightly tested, I've not > managed to hit the remap_io_mapping path at all. Needs an older machine and old userspace. intel-gfx CI should still check whether it's all ok. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
