Thread (101 messages) 101 messages, 14 authors, 2005-03-17

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: radeon, apertures & memory mapping

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.

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Ville Syrjälä
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