[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t] intel_gpu_top: enable bsd6_ring on gen6 and later

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2018-03-28 17:48:28)
> 
> On 27/03/2018 23:44, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Rinat Ibragimov (2018-03-27 22:48:36)
> >> Rather than testing for each gen explicitly, sample bsd6_ring on
> >> everything starting from gen6. This change makes intel_gpu_top to show
> >> "bitstream busy" metric on the newer hardware too.
> > 
> > Tvrtko, can we retire this machine killer? If not, it's overdue git rm.
> 
> I could submit a patch for not much effort which would do most of the 
> top part of https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/38281/ - so without 
> the per-client bits, and without queue depth and load averages. If that 
> would be acceptable as a first step?

Yes. Anything that stops us from polling the registers directly in a
dangerous manner.
-Chris