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 -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
