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Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support

From Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support
Date 2016-04-26 18:30 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 04:36:36PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:14:22AM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> > 2016-04-26 Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 07:33:25PM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> > > > From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
> > > > 
> > > > There is now a new property called FENCE_FD attached to every plane
> > > > state that receives the sync_file fd from userspace via the atomic commit
> > > > IOCTL.
> > > 
> > > I still don't like this property abuse. Also with atomic, all passed
> > > fences must be waited upon before anything is done, so attaching them
> > > to planes seems like it might just give people the wrong idea.
> > 
> > I'm actually fine with this as property, but another solutions is use
> > an array of {plane, fence_fd} and extend drm_atomic_ioctl args just like
> > we have done for out fences. However the FENCE_FD property is easier to
> > handle in userspace than the array. Any other idea?
> 
> Imo FENCE_FD is perfectly fine. But what's the concern around giving
> people the wrong idea with attaching fences to planes? For nonblocking
> commits we need to store them somewhere for the worker, drm_plane_state
> seems like an as good place as any other.

It gives the impression that each plane might flip as soon as its fence
signals.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC

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[RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> - 2016-04-26 00:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-26 12:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk> - 2016-04-26 16:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2016-04-26 16:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-26 18:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2016-04-26 19:30 +0200
            Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-26 19:50 +0200
              Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2016-04-26 20:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-26 21:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2016-04-26 22:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> - 2016-04-26 22:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2016-04-27 08:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> - 2016-04-27 09:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC v2 5/8] drm/fence: add in-fences support Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-26 18:30 +0200

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