On 1/24/19 8:44 AM, Brian Starkey wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:04:46AM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
On 1/23/19 11:11 AM, Brian Starkey wrote:
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I'm very new to all this, so any pointers to history in this area are
appreciated.
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In case you didn't come across it already, the effort which seems to
have gained the most "air-time" recently is
https://github.com/cubanismo/allocator, which is still a userspace
module (perhaps some concepts from there could go into the kernel?),
but makes some attempts at generic constraint solving. It's also not
really moving anywhere at the moment.
Very interesting, I'm going to have to stare at this for a bit.
In which case, some reading material that might be of interest :-)
https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2016/Program/Unix_Device_Memory_Allocation.pdf
https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2017/jones_allocator.pdf
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-November/177632.html
-Brian
In some respects this is more a question of "what is the purpose
of Ion". Once upon a time, Ion was going to do constraint solving
but that never really happened and I figured Ion would get deprecated.
People keep coming out of the woodwork with new uses for Ion so
its stuck around. This is why I've primarily focused on Ion as a
framework for exposing available memory types to userspace and leave
the constraint solving to someone else, since that's what most
users seem to want out of Ion ("I know I want memory type X please
give it to me"). That's not to say that this was a perfect or
even the correct approach, just what made the most sense based
on users.
Thanks,
Laura
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