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GEM v. TTMGEM v. TTM
[Kernel] Posted May 28, 2008 13:46 UTC (Wed) by corbet
In November of last year, LWN covered the TTM memory manager for graphics processors. Since then, TTM has remained outside of the kernel - as have any drivers which make use of it. Now a competitor to TTM has emerged, and the situation has become more complicated. This article (from this week's Kernel Page, subscribers only) looks at the new GEM subsystem and the future of memory management for 3D graphics.
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