Hi chris, On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:27:18AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > Quoting [email protected] (2017-08-30 09:54:21) > > This patch added two new api to the fence management code: > > - i915_reserve_one_fence() will try to find a free fence from fence_list > > and force-remove vma if need. > > - i915_giveback_reserved_fence() reclaim a reserved fence after vGPU has > > finished. > > Symmetry: reserve_fence, unreserve_fence. > ok, I will rename the functions.
> We need a safeguard here so that the host is able to always able allocate > to allocate a fence for the display engine. (That requirement should be > quite soft for modern hw, nevertheless it should be in the design to > prevent overuse from leading to an unusable system.) > -Chris Yes, agree. Is there any other components always need a fence ready? otherwise, I will add a safeguard to ensure at least 1 fence register remained for host. -- Thanks, Changbin Du
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