Why the vram always with WC flag even if the architecture don't support WC memory
Lvzhihong (ReJohn)
lvzhihong1 at huawei.com
Thu Jan 18 11:46:15 UTC 2018
> I think it's fine. Platforms without write-combining should fall back to normal uncacheable mappings. This is fine for VRAM, because it can't be cacheable. But for GTT, we want to use cacheable mappings if write-
> combining isn't available, because uncacheable mappings would be much slower.
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> Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com
> Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer
Thanks for your reply.
Ok, but I can't find the code of fall back to normal uncacheable mappings. Is it a software behavior or hardware behavior ?
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