Re: [PATCH 13/14] staging: android: ion: Do not sync CPU cache on map/unmap

[Brian Starkey]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:04:46AM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> On 1/23/19 11:11 AM, Brian Starkey wrote:

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> 
> I'm very new to all this, so any pointers to history in this area are
> appreciated.
> 

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> > In case you didn't come across it already, the effort which seems to
> > have gained the most "air-time" recently is
> > https://github.com/cubanismo/allocator, which is still a userspace
> > module (perhaps some concepts from there could go into the kernel?),
> > but makes some attempts at generic constraint solving. It's also not
> > really moving anywhere at the moment.
> > 
> 
> Very interesting, I'm going to have to stare at this for a bit.

In which case, some reading material that might be of interest :-)

https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2016/Program/Unix_Device_Memory_Allocation.pdf
https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2017/jones_allocator.pdf
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-November/177632.html

-Brian