Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: radeon, apertures & memory mapping
From: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Date: 2005-03-14 16:40:25
From: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Date: 2005-03-14 16:40:25
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:30:04PM +0100, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] writes:quoted
In an ideal world ... However, since we are planning to move the memory manager to the kernel, that would mean a kernel access (syscall, ioctl, whatever...) twice per access to AGP memory. Not realistic.Could the user space driver batch many such accesses together and use a lock_many()/unlock_many() API?
Natrually it should try to do as much as possible during the lock()/unlock() sequence. -- Ville Syrjälä syrjala@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/