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Commit 96d77634 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915: Use a radixtree for random access to the object's backing storage



A while ago we switched from a contiguous array of pages into an sglist,
for that was both more convenient for mapping to hardware and avoided
the requirement for a vmalloc array of pages on every object. However,
certain GEM API calls (like pwrite, pread as well as performing
relocations) do desire access to individual struct pages. A quick hack
was to introduce a cache of the last access such that finding the
following page was quick - this works so long as the caller desired
sequential access. Walking backwards, or multiple callers, still hits a
slow linear search for each page. One solution is to store each
successful lookup in a radix tree.

v2: Rewrite building the radixtree for clarity, hopefully.

v3: Rearrange execbuf to avoid calling i915_gem_object_get_sg() from
within an atomic section and so relax the allocation context to a simple
GFP_KERNEL and mutex.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161028125858.23563-10-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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