Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/24] drm/i915: Replace the array of pages with a scatterlist

2012-09-12 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 05:34:48PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:49:24 -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:02:57 +0100 > > Chris Wilson wrote: > > > > > Rather than have multiple data structures for describing our page layout > > > in conjunction with the a

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/24] drm/i915: Replace the array of pages with a scatterlist

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Wilson
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:49:24 -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:02:57 +0100 > Chris Wilson wrote: > > > Rather than have multiple data structures for describing our page layout > > in conjunction with the array of pages, we can migrate all users over to > > a scatterlist. > > >

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/24] drm/i915: Replace the array of pages with a scatterlist

2012-09-06 Thread Ben Widawsky
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:02:57 +0100 Chris Wilson wrote: > Rather than have multiple data structures for describing our page layout > in conjunction with the array of pages, we can migrate all users over to > a scatterlist. > > One major advantage, other than unifying the page tracking structures,

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/24] drm/i915: Replace the array of pages with a scatterlist

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Wilson
Rather than have multiple data structures for describing our page layout in conjunction with the array of pages, we can migrate all users over to a scatterlist. One major advantage, other than unifying the page tracking structures, this offers is that we replace the vmalloc'ed array (which can be

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/24] drm/i915: Replace the array of pages with a scatterlist

2012-08-30 Thread Chris Wilson
Rather than have multiple data structures for describing our page layout in conjunction with the array of pages, we can migrate all users over to a scatterlist. One major advantage, other than unifying the page tracking structures, this offers is that we replace the vmalloc'ed array (which can be