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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] ARM: exynos_defconfig: increase CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES to 96
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:12:21PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> Current CMA size of 64 Mbytes is right on the edge of being small when
> several drivers need to allocate large CMA buffers.
>
> For example, if the s5p-mfc driver needs to pre-allocate N MiB CMA memory

Everything looks good but I don't get this "N MiB". What do you mean by
that? If N is infinite (or not known) then how do you know that 96 MiB
will be enough?

Best regards,
Krzysztof


> to decode a H.264 1080p video, then there won't be enough CMA memory left
> for other drivers, such as the exynos-drm driver that may need to allocate
> GEM buffers for the display manager.
>
> Increasing CMA size to 96 Mbytes in exynos_defconfig addresses use-cases
> such as these.
>
> Suggested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
> ---
>
> Changes since v1:
> Fix short and long commit log.
>
> Reason for this patch:
> With the proposed s5p_mfc patch series that pre-allocate buffers, when
> display manager starts, it fails to get GEM buffers. Increasing the CMA
> size to 96 solved the problem.
>
> arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> index 742baf0..2541414 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ CONFIG_RFKILL_REGULATOR=y
> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
> CONFIG_DMA_CMA=y
> -CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES=64
> +CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES=96
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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