[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 3/3] drm/i915: Track OACONTROL register enable/disable during parsing

[Zhenyu Wang]

On 2014.04.10 08:43:40 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> At least in the case of mesa you _must_ use mesa (or whatever your gl
> library is) to insert the MI_PERF cmd at just the rigth spots in the
> command stream and ofc flush all outstanding vertices and similar things.
> 
> If you want a global perf sampling support then I think we need to wire up
> the time-based sampling the hw provides to the perf subsystem. And figure
> out how to coordinate between mesa wanting to use OA and perf (probably
> just reject mesa batches or something like that).
> 

yeah, that'll be an interesting direction.

> > Could we have a i915.enable_cmd_parser config that can disable this?
> 
> As is I don't see a compelling reason. Also if you require the users of
> your perf tuning tooling to use a module option, you're doing it wrong.
> This stuff should Just Work.

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