Hey Erik, Op 07-06-12 19:35, Erik Gilling schreef: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Maarten Lankhorst > <m.b.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I haven't looked at intel and amd, but from a quick glance >> it seems like they already implement fencing too, so just >> some way to synch up the fences on shared buffers seems >> like it could benefit all graphics drivers and the whole >> userspace synching could be done away with entirely. > It's important to have some level of userspace API so that GPU > generated graphics can participate in the graphics pipeline. Think of > the case where you have a software video codec streaming textures into > the GPU. It needs to know when the GPU is done with those textures so > it can reuse the buffer. > In the graphics case this problem already has to be handled without dma-buf, so adding any extra synchronization api for userspace that is only used when the bo is shared is a waste. I do agree you need some way to synch userspace though, but I think adding a new api for userspace is not the way to go. Cheers, Maarten PS: re-added cc's that seem to have fallen off from your mail. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
