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drm/i915: create compact dma scatter lists for gem objects
authorImre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:28:03 +0000 (19:28 +0200)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:17:09 +0000 (12:17 +0100)
commitde98f6191594aac4054a6ac690a209bc8a65110b
tree3308e54aca521e530872f80fbb27ca8a7bccfe76
parentc1b691226c3b45ec7ff712f8f4d52f1c2c7bffed
drm/i915: create compact dma scatter lists for gem objects

So far we created a sparse dma scatter list for gem objects, where each
scatter list entry represented only a single page. In the future we'll
have to handle compact scatter lists too where each entry can consist of
multiple pages, for example for objects imported through PRIME.

The previous patches have already fixed up all other places where the
i915 driver _walked_ these lists. Here we have the corresponding fix to
_create_ compact lists. It's not a performance or memory footprint
improvement, but it helps to better exercise the new logic.

Reference: http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg33917.html
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c