[PATCH 19/20] drm/i915: Use SSE4.1 movntdqa based memcpy for sampling GuC log buffer

akash.goel at intel.com akash.goel at intel.com
Thu Aug 11 16:24:45 UTC 2016


From: Akash Goel <akash.goel at intel.com>

In order to have fast reads from the GuC log buffer, used SSE4.1 movntdqa
based memcpy function i915_memcpy_from_wc.
GuC log buffer has a WC type vmalloc mapping and copying using movntqda from
WC type memory is almost as fast as reading from WB memory.
This will further reduce the log buffer sampling time, so is needed dearly
to deal with the flush interrupt storm when GuC is generating logs at a very
high rate.
Ideally SSE 4.1 should be present on all chipsets supporting GuC based
submisssions, but if not then logging will not be enabled.

Suggested-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c
index 1818343..af48f62 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c
@@ -987,15 +987,16 @@ static void guc_read_update_log_buffer(struct intel_guc *guc)
 			/* Just copy the newly written data */
 			if (read_offset <= write_offset) {
 				bytes_to_copy = write_offset - read_offset;
-				memcpy(dst_data_ptr + read_offset,
+				i915_memcpy_from_wc(dst_data_ptr + read_offset,
 				     src_data_ptr + read_offset, bytes_to_copy);
 			} else {
 				bytes_to_copy = buffer_size - read_offset;
-				memcpy(dst_data_ptr + read_offset,
+				i915_memcpy_from_wc(dst_data_ptr + read_offset,
 				     src_data_ptr + read_offset, bytes_to_copy);
 
 				bytes_to_copy = write_offset;
-				memcpy(dst_data_ptr, src_data_ptr, bytes_to_copy);
+				i915_memcpy_from_wc(dst_data_ptr, src_data_ptr,
+				     bytes_to_copy);
 			}
 
 			src_data_ptr += buffer_size;
@@ -1210,6 +1211,16 @@ static void guc_create_log(struct intel_guc *guc)
 
 	obj = guc->log.obj;
 	if (!obj) {
+		/* We require SSE 4.1 for fast reads from the GuC log buffer and
+		 * it should be present on the chipsets supporting GuC based
+		 * submisssions.
+		 */
+		if (WARN_ON(!i915_memcpy_from_wc(NULL, NULL, 0))) {
+			/* logging will not be enabled */
+			i915.guc_log_level = -1;
+			return;
+		}
+
 		obj = gem_allocate_guc_obj(dev_priv, size);
 		if (!obj) {
 			/* logging will be off */
-- 
1.9.2



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