Shared Virtual Memory Support For Nouveau With HMM

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Shared Virtual Memory Support For Nouveau WIth HMM

It's been a while since we last have seen any new Heterogeneous Memory Management patches even after its mainline introduction in Linux 4.14. But Jerome Glisse who masterminded HMM at Red Hat is now out with some Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) patches for Nouveau...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SVM-HMM-Nouveau

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Phoronix: Shared Virtual Memory Support For Nouveau WIth HMM

[aufkrawall]

I wonder if this can be beneficial to games like WDDM 2.0? Or is this technically not comparable?

[boxie]

If they can get OpenCL running at a decent speed on the 3gb graphics cards with this, then I am sure there will be some mining ETH on them again (since the DAG is now larger)