[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 17/30] drm/i915: Do not clflush snooped objects

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Apr 13 18:04:38 CEST 2011


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:31:45PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> +	/* If the GPU is snooping the contents of the CPU cache,
> +	 * we do not need to clear the CPU cache lines. Instead we need
> +	 * to be sure to flush/invalidate the RENDER cache when the contents
> +	 * must be refreshed.
> +	 */

The "Instead we need to be sure to flush the RENDER cache ..." is a bit
confusing to me: There's no instead, we have to do this always when
writing with the cpu. Besides this minor comment-nitpick it makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
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