Hi, All, On 10/14/19 3:22 PM, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
From: Thomas Hellström <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> Graphics APIs like OpenGL 4.4 and Vulkan require the graphics driver to provide coherent graphics memory, meaning that the GPU sees any content written to the coherent memory on the next GPU operation that touches that memory, and the CPU sees any content written by the GPU to that memory immediately after any fence object trailing the GPU operation is signaled. Paravirtual drivers that otherwise require explicit synchronization needs to do this by hooking up dirty tracking to pagefault handlers and buffer object validation. Provide mm helpers needed for this and that also allow for huge pmd- and pud entries (patch 1-3), and the associated vmwgfx code (patch 4-7). The code has been tested and exercised by a tailored version of mesa where we disable all explicit synchronization and assume graphics memory is coherent. The performance loss varies of course; a typical number is around 5%. I would like to merge this code through the DRM tree, so an ack to include the new mm helpers in that merge would be greatly appreciated.
I'm a bit confused as how to get this merged? Is there an -mm maintainer or who is supposed to ack -mm patches and get them into the kernel?
Any input appreciated, Thanks, Thomas
