Re: ttm_mem_global

[Jerome Glisse]

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 20:55 +0200, Thomas HellstrÃm wrote:
> Jerome Glisse skrev:
> > On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 10:37 +0200, Thomas HellstrÃm wrote:
> >   
> >> TTM has a device struct per device and an optional global struct that is 
> >> common for all devices and intended to be per subsystem.
> >>
> >> The only subsystem currently having a global structure is the memory 
> >> accounting subsystem:
> >> struct ttm_mem_global
> >>     
> >
> > Thomas i don't think the way we init ttm_mem_global today make
> > it follow the 1 struct ttm_mem_global for everyone. I think it
> > should be initialized and refcounted by device struct.
> >
> > So on first device creation a ttm_mem_global is created and
> > then anytime a new device is created the refcount of ttm_mem_global
> > is increased. 
> Jerome,
> This is exactly what the current code intends to do.
> 
> Are you seeing something different?

I definitly don't see that :) In radeon we do create a structure
which hold the ttm_mem_global struct so it's not shared at all
it got inited & destroyed along the driver. This is why i think
it's better to remove the driver initialization and let bo_device
init path take care of initializing one and only one object which
can be shared by multiple driverttm_mem_global_inits.

So what i propose is remove mem_glob parameter from :
ttm_bo_device_init, add a call to ttm_mem_global_init in
ttm_bo_device_init and add some static refcount in ttm_memory.c
if refcount = 0 then ttm_mem_global_init create a ttm_mem_global
struct and initialize things, if refcount > 0 then it gives
back the already initialized ttm_mem_global.

Of course we unref with ttm_mem_global_release and destroy
once refcount reach 0.

Cheers,
Jerome

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