From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14283.53227.275065.227789@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:51:55 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: accel handling In-Reply-To: <37CB4E69.8C441E27@precisioninsight.com> References: <37CB4E69.8C441E27@precisioninsight.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jens Owen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Stephen Tweedie List-ID: Hi, On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:39:21 -0600, Jens Owen said: > Don't know if this would be any help to this discussion, be we have > some writeups on the mechanisms we use for the DRI at > http://www.precisioninsight.com/dr/ the most useful might be > locking.html Thanks. Yes, this is exactly what I've been saying all along --- if you want to make things go fast enough, you need cooperative locking. Physically enforcing it in the VM wil never be able to keep up with the pace. --Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/