Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH 2/2] virtio-gpu/2d: add docs/specs/virtio-gpu.txt

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On Sa, 2014-09-13 at 07:14 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >> Can the host refuse due to lack of resources?
> >
> > Yes.  virtgpu_ctrl_hdr.type in the response will be set to
> > VIRTGPU_RESP_ERR_* then.  Current implementation does that only on
> > malloc() failure, there is no accounting (yet) to limit the amout of
> > memory the guest is allowed to allocate.
> 
> We do probably need to work out some sort of accounting system, it can
> probably reliably only be a total value of resources, since we've no
> idea if the host driver will store them in VRAM or main memory. Quite
> how to fail gracefully is a question, probably need to report to the
> guest what context did the allocation and see if we can destroy it.

Best would be if virgilrenderer.so just fails
virgl_renderer_resource_create() calls.

> Not reason I can remember, I think I was thinking of having separate
> inval and detach at one point, but it didn't really make any sense, so
> renaming to detach is fine with me.

Done.

cheers,
  Gerd