[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 07/15] drm/i915: Do not clflush snooped objects
Chris Wilson
chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Mar 22 14:51:52 CET 2011
Rely on the GPU snooping into the CPU cache for appropriately bound
objects on MI_FLUSH. Or perhaps one day we will have a cache-coherent
CPU/GPU package...
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 8 ++++++++
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 3f2e212..9d8a1e8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -2979,6 +2979,14 @@ i915_gem_clflush_object(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
if (obj->pages == NULL)
return;
+ /* If the GPU is snooping the contents of the CPU cache,
+ * we do not need to clear the CPU cache lines. Instead we need
+ * to be sure to flush/invalidate the RENDER cache when the contents
+ * must be refreshed.
+ */
+ if (obj->cache_level != I915_CACHE_NONE)
+ return;
+
trace_i915_gem_object_clflush(obj);
drm_clflush_pages(obj->pages, obj->base.size / PAGE_SIZE);
--
1.7.4.1
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