[PATCH 1/2] anon_inodes: allow external inode allocations

2013-07-24 Thread David Herrmann
Hi Al Any comment on this? Regards David On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:45 AM, David Herrmann wrote: > DRM core shares a single address_space across all inodes that belong to > the same DRM device. This allows efficient unmapping of user-space > mappings during buffer destruction. However, there is

Re: [PATCH 1/2] anon_inodes: allow external inode allocations

2013-07-24 Thread David Herrmann
Hi Al Any comment on this? Regards David On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:45 AM, David Herrmann wrote: > DRM core shares a single address_space across all inodes that belong to > the same DRM device. This allows efficient unmapping of user-space > mappings during buffer destruction. However, there is

[PATCH 1/2] anon_inodes: allow external inode allocations

2013-07-11 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 01:45:29AM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > DRM core shares a single address_space across all inodes that belong to > the same DRM device. This allows efficient unmapping of user-space > mappings during buffer destruction. However, there is no easy way to get a > shared addres

[PATCH 1/2] anon_inodes: allow external inode allocations

2013-07-11 Thread David Herrmann
DRM core shares a single address_space across all inodes that belong to the same DRM device. This allows efficient unmapping of user-space mappings during buffer destruction. However, there is no easy way to get a shared address_space for DRM devices during initialization. Therefore, we currently d

Re: [PATCH 1/2] anon_inodes: allow external inode allocations

2013-07-10 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 01:45:29AM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > DRM core shares a single address_space across all inodes that belong to > the same DRM device. This allows efficient unmapping of user-space > mappings during buffer destruction. However, there is no easy way to get a > shared addres

[PATCH 1/2] anon_inodes: allow external inode allocations

2013-07-10 Thread David Herrmann
DRM core shares a single address_space across all inodes that belong to the same DRM device. This allows efficient unmapping of user-space mappings during buffer destruction. However, there is no easy way to get a shared address_space for DRM devices during initialization. Therefore, we currently d