Slower 3D with kernel 4.11.x

[Bridgman, John]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Mota Leite [mailto:daniel at motaleite.net]
>Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 9:47 PM
>To: Bridgman, John
>Cc: Alex Deucher; DRI Development
>Subject: Re: Slower 3D with kernel 4.11.x
>
>On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 21:09:03 +0000, "Bridgman, John"
><John.Bridgman at amd.com> wrote:
>> Hmm... more powerplay error messages than I am used to seeing, plus a
>> bunch of GPUVM faults, plus a stack trace.
>>
>> My first thought would be to ask if you could go back to the previous
>> kernel, boot up and send a dmesg from that to see how many of those
>> error messages are new.
>
>	See attached file in kernel 4.10.12, boot and after running mad max
>vulkan benchmark , opengl benchmark and then war thunder benchmark.

OK, no powerplay messages that time. Was performance back to what you expected ?

>
>	I would say that the gpu faults are happening in vulkan.
>I can try to update mesa to the latest git or downgrade to 17.1 if you want or
>change the libdrm version (2.4.80 right now)
>
>Thanks
>higuita
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