Re: [RFC v2 00/12] drm/i915/svm: Add SVM support

2020-01-24 Thread Niranjana Vishwanathapura
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 01:56:02PM -0800, Niranjana Vishwanathapura wrote: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) allows the programmer to use a single virtual address space which will be shared between threads executing on CPUs and GPUs. It abstracts away from the user the location of the backing memory, a

[RFC v2 00/12] drm/i915/svm: Add SVM support

2019-12-13 Thread Niranjana Vishwanathapura
Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) allows the programmer to use a single virtual address space which will be shared between threads executing on CPUs and GPUs. It abstracts away from the user the location of the backing memory, and hence simplifies the user programming model. SVM supports two types of vir