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Re: [PATCH 02/11] dma-buf/fence: add fence_array fences v6

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Hi Christian,

2016-06-01 Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de>:

> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
> 
> struct fence_collection inherits from struct fence and carries a
> collection of fences that needs to be waited together.
> 
> It is useful to translate a sync_file to a fence to remove the complexity
> of dealing with sync_files on DRM drivers. So even if there are many
> fences in the sync_file that needs to waited for a commit to happen,
> they all get added to the fence_collection and passed for DRM use as
> a standard struct fence.
> 
> That means that no changes needed to any driver besides supporting fences.
> 
> fence_collection's fence doesn't belong to any timeline context, so
> fence_is_later() and fence_later() are not meant to be called with
> fence_collections fences.

The commit message needs to be fixed to say mention fence_array instead
of fence_collection and we do create fence contexts for fence_arrays
now.

	Gustavo

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Fence array patchset Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 02/11] dma-buf/fence: add fence_array fences v6 Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 02/11] dma-buf/fence: add fence_array fences v6 Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> - 2016-06-01 16:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 02/11] dma-buf/fence: add fence_array fences v6 Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> - 2016-06-01 17:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 02/11] dma-buf/fence: add fence_array fences v6 Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> - 2016-06-01 18:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 02/11] dma-buf/fence: add fence_array fences v6 Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2016-06-02 00:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 02/11] dma-buf/fence: add fence_array fences v6 Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-02 09:30 +0200
  [PATCH 07/11] drm/amdgpu: add optional ring to amdgpu_sync_is_idle Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 04/11] drm/amdgpu: document amdgpu_sync_get_fence Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 10/11] drm/amdgpu: use a fence array for VMID management Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 06/11] drm/amdgpu: remove amdgpu_sync_wait Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 05/11] drm/amdgpu: generalize the scheduler fence Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 08/11] drm/amdgpu: prefer VMIDs idle on the current ring Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH 11/11] drm/amdgpu: remove now unnecessary checks Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 11/11] drm/amdgpu: remove now unnecessary checks Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 23:20 +0200
  [PATCH 01/11] dma-buf/fence: make fence context 64 bit v2 Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 01/11] dma-buf/fence: make fence context 64 bit v2 Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> - 2016-06-01 17:30 +0200
  [PATCH 09/11] drm/amdgpu: reuse VMIDs assigned to a VM only if there is also a free one Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de> - 2016-06-01 15:20 +0200
  Re: Fence array patchset Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 15:50 +0200

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