Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765412AbYHDW1j (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:27:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764881AbYHDW11 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:27:27 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]:62292 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764897AbYHDW10 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:27:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=SHOWR7MFNgGjfjGiR0HE2yE27ZG8M1pMZESQY15vILMJohvu8fDmtjmejrN15KUOud AM0tQzIKukePTQ09izEg7xtfZjvUITzTHc9kTz+nod/0qpJyoDviVO+bZ8OEqLbwlmaP 5CB/TlCb+dHGJbYgWa1yP8RU6aAdvuAWdIaog= Message-ID: <21d7e9970808041520k64506cf0k14e4f8e3d5a316bd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:20:32 +1000 From: "Dave Airlie" To: "Ingo Oeser" Subject: Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM) Cc: "Keith Packard" , "Alan Cox" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "John Stoffel" , "Christoph Hellwig" , "Eric Anholt" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200808042346.51391.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1217573919-7496-1-git-send-email-eric@anholt.net> <20080804151146.71d9fcce@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1217869134.24714.70.camel@koto.keithp.com> <200808042346.51391.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1012 Lines: 25 On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2008, Keith Packard wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:11 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> > X libraries provide the event loop so that isn't really as complex as it >> > seems. >> >> Uh, no, X doesn't. Gtk+ and Qt provide event loops that applications may >> use, but still many choose to roll their own. > > Ok, how many need support for GEM? How many of them would change their > event loop, if they can get better performance? > GEM is under OpenGL libs so they don't request support for GEM. However if the underlying OpenGL implemenation suddenly starts doing something with a lot of fds it could potentially confuse the crap out of these exisiting applications. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/