[PATCH 0/2] RFC: allow driver to plugin alternative to drm_mm

2010-08-10 Thread Thomas Hellstrom
acked-by: Thomas Hellstr?m On 08/05/2010 03:09 PM, Ben Skeggs wrote: > From: Ben Skeggs > > In order to properly deal with GPU reordering of blocks in physical VRAM, > Nouveau needs to be able to have better control over VRAM allocations. > > Currently nouveau is extremely wasteful and forces ma

Re: [PATCH 0/2] RFC: allow driver to plugin alternative to drm_mm

2010-08-09 Thread Thomas Hellstrom
acked-by: Thomas Hellström On 08/05/2010 03:09 PM, Ben Skeggs wrote: From: Ben Skeggs In order to properly deal with GPU reordering of blocks in physical VRAM, Nouveau needs to be able to have better control over VRAM allocations. Currently nouveau is extremely wasteful and forces massive am

[PATCH 0/2] RFC: allow driver to plugin alternative to drm_mm

2010-08-05 Thread Ben Skeggs
From: Ben Skeggs In order to properly deal with GPU reordering of blocks in physical VRAM, Nouveau needs to be able to have better control over VRAM allocations. Currently nouveau is extremely wasteful and forces massive amounts of padding/alignment to avoid buffer corruption issues. radeon/vmw

[PATCH 0/2] RFC: allow driver to plugin alternative to drm_mm

2010-08-05 Thread Ben Skeggs
From: Ben Skeggs In order to properly deal with GPU reordering of blocks in physical VRAM, Nouveau needs to be able to have better control over VRAM allocations. Currently nouveau is extremely wasteful and forces massive amounts of padding/alignment to avoid buffer corruption issues. radeon/vmw