On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 09:10:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:27:06 -0400 Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Andrew you will not be pushing this patchset in 5.1 ?
>
> I'd like to. It sounds like we're converging on a plan.
>
> It would be good to hear more from the driver developers who will be
> consuming these new features - links to patchsets, review feedback,
> etc. Which individuals should we be asking? Felix, Christian and
> Jason, perhaps?
>
So i am guessing you will not send this to Linus ? Should i repost ?
This patchset has 2 sides, first side is just reworking the HMM API
to make something better in respect to process lifetime. AMD folks
did find that helpful [1]. This rework is also necessary to ease up
the convertion of ODP to HMM [2] and Jason already said that he is
interested in seing that happening [3]. By missing 5.1 it means now
that i can not push ODP to HMM in 5.2 and it will be postpone to 5.3
which is also postoning other work ...
The second side is it adds 2 new helper dma map and dma unmap both
are gonna be use by ODP and latter by nouveau (after some other
nouveau changes are done). This new functions just do dma_map ie:
hmm_dma_map() {
existing_hmm_api()
for_each_page() {
dma_map_page()
}
}
Do you want to see anymore justification than that ?
[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/amd-gfx/msg31048.html
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10786625/
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/13/591
Cheers,
Jérôme
