Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2016 11:01:08 -0300 | From | Gustavo Padovan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/11] dma-buf/fence: add fence_array fences v6 |
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Hi Christian,
2016-06-01 Christian König <deathsimple@vodafone.de>:
> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk> > > struct fence_collection inherits from struct fence and carries a > collection of fences that needs to be waited together. > > It is useful to translate a sync_file to a fence to remove the complexity > of dealing with sync_files on DRM drivers. So even if there are many > fences in the sync_file that needs to waited for a commit to happen, > they all get added to the fence_collection and passed for DRM use as > a standard struct fence. > > That means that no changes needed to any driver besides supporting fences. > > fence_collection's fence doesn't belong to any timeline context, so > fence_is_later() and fence_later() are not meant to be called with > fence_collections fences.
The commit message needs to be fixed to say mention fence_array instead of fence_collection and we do create fence contexts for fence_arrays now.
Gustavo
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