[PATCH 2/5] drm/amdgpu:new method to sync ce&de

Monk Liu Monk.Liu at amd.com
Fri Aug 26 06:39:17 UTC 2016


CE & DE can have most up to 128dw as the gap between them
so to sync CE nad DE we don't need double SWITCH_BUFFERs any
more, which is urgly and harm performance, we only need
insert 128NOP after VM flush to prevent CE vm fault.

Change-Id: Ibec954ce4c817ad7d3bce89c2bcb95b6c6bb5411
Signed-off-by: Monk Liu <Monk.Liu at amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v8_0.c | 15 +++------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v8_0.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v8_0.c
index 26fced0..af354a8 100755
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v8_0.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v8_0.c
@@ -6005,14 +6005,6 @@ static void gfx_v8_0_ring_emit_pipeline_sync(struct amdgpu_ring *ring)
 	amdgpu_ring_write(ring, seq);
 	amdgpu_ring_write(ring, 0xffffffff);
 	amdgpu_ring_write(ring, 4); /* poll interval */
-
-	if (usepfp) {
-		/* synce CE with ME to prevent CE fetch CEIB before context switch done */
-		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, PACKET3(PACKET3_SWITCH_BUFFER, 0));
-		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, 0);
-		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, PACKET3(PACKET3_SWITCH_BUFFER, 0));
-		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, 0);
-	}
 }
 
 static void gfx_v8_0_ring_emit_vm_flush(struct amdgpu_ring *ring,
@@ -6059,11 +6051,10 @@ static void gfx_v8_0_ring_emit_vm_flush(struct amdgpu_ring *ring,
 		/* sync PFP to ME, otherwise we might get invalid PFP reads */
 		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, PACKET3(PACKET3_PFP_SYNC_ME, 0));
 		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, 0x0);
-		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, PACKET3(PACKET3_SWITCH_BUFFER, 0));
-		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, 0);
-		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, PACKET3(PACKET3_SWITCH_BUFFER, 0));
-		amdgpu_ring_write(ring, 0);
 	}
+
+	/* GFX8 emits 128 dw nop to prevent CE access VM before vm_flush finish */
+	amdgpu_ring_insert_nop(ring, 128);
 }
 
 static u32 gfx_v8_0_ring_get_rptr_compute(struct amdgpu_ring *ring)
-- 
1.9.1



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