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In the future, we want to move a request between engines. To achieve this, we first realise that we have two timelines in effect here. The first runs through the GTT is required for ordering vma access, which is tracked currently by engine. The second is implied by sequential execution of commands inside the ringbuffer. This timeline is one that maps to userspace's expectations when submitting requests (i.e. given the same context, batch A is executed before batch B). As the rings's timelines map to userspace and the GTT timeline an implementation detail, move the timeline from the GTT into the ring itself (per-context in logical-ring-contexts/execlists, or a global per-engine timeline for the shared ringbuffers in legacy submission. The two timelines are still assumed to be equivalent at the moment (no migrating requests between engines yet) and so we can simply move from one to the other without adding extra ordering. v2: Reinforce that one isn't allowed to mix the engine execution timeline with the client timeline from userspace (on the ring). Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180502163839.3248-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.