Re: [RFC 1/8] dma-buf/fence: add fence_collection fences

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Christian KÃnig
<christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Might be that how amdgpu uses the fence context and sequence number is a bit
> questionable, but this will completely break it.

You mean it tries to qualesce fences in the same context down to just
the last one? That's how it's supposed to be done, and
fence_collections do break this somewhat. Without fixing up
fence_is_later and friends. Sounds like amdgpu is a good use case to
make sure the changes in semantics in these functions result in
sensible code. In a way a fence_collection is a fence where the
timeline never matches with any other timeline (since it's a
combiation).

And yeah I think fence_collection should probably compress down the
fences to 1 per timeline. But then that's just an implementation
detail we can fix later on.
-Daniel
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