On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:19:18PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Downside: Tracking mapping changes on the guest side won't be any easier.
> This is mostly a problem for integrated gpus, since discrete ones usually
> require contiguous vram for scanout. I think saying "don't do that" is a
> valid option though, i.e. we're assuming that page mappings for a in-use
> scanout range never changes on the guest side. That is true for at least
> all the current linux drivers.

Apart from we already suffer limitations of fixed mappings and have patches
that want to change the page mapping of active scanouts.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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