[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: FBC flush nuke for BDW

Rodrigo Vivi rodrigo.vivi at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 18:44:14 CEST 2014


List was accidentally drop. I didn't mean it. Sorry.

And yes, you are right, we need a way to reduce nukes and cleans similar
that we have for psr. I'll try it.


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:

> Readding intel-gfx. Please don't drop mailing lists cc's without telling
> me.
>
> Thanks, Daniel
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > Yeah, that does a lot too much flushing - you need to track relevant
> > dirty bits like psr does, and then only flush when there has been a
> > preceeding invalidate with the primary plane frontbuffer bit for the
> > pipe that's using fbc. On top of that there's room for more
> > improvements (filtering out pageflips and optimizing that more, atm we
> > just disable fbc over a pageflip which is a bit meh), and we should
> > also be able to ditch all the existing fbc nuking we do from the cmd
> > streamer.
> > -Daniel
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~vivijim/drm-intel/commit/?h=fbc-sw-nuke-hsw&id=71875d3331aa3baef4f6f6bd297cc70dd94df1b6
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 01:04:19PM -0700, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> >>> > I tested here on HSW a full sw nuke/cache clean and I didn't liked
> the
> >>> > result.
> >>> > It seems to compress less than the hw one and to recompress
> everything a
> >>> > lot and stay less time compressed.
> >>>
> >>> That is really unexpected. For a modern desktop (i.e. anything that
> >>> pageflips) there should be zero difference. And for actual frontbuffer
> >>> rendering there should only be a difference when doing tiny cpu
> rendering
> >>> to the frontbuffer.
> >>>
> >>> So something didn't work out as expected. Can you please push the code
> >>> somewhere, or just submit patches to intel-gfx?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Daniel
> >>> >
> >>> > So, imho v3 is the way to go.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com
> >
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > > According to spec FBC on BDW and HSW are identical without any
> gaps.
> >>> > > So let's copy the nuke and let FBC really start compressing stuff.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Without this patch we can verify with false color that nothing is
> >>> > > being
> >>> > > compressed. With the nuke in place and false color it is possible
> >>> > > to see false color debugs.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Unfortunatelly on some rings like BCS on BDW we have to avoid Bits
> >>> > > 22:18 on
> >>> > > LRIs due to a high risk of hung. So, when using Blt ring for
> >>> > > frontbuffer
> >>> > > rend
> >>> > > cache would never been cleaned and FBC would stop compressing
> buffer.
> >>> > > One alternative is to cache clean on software frontbuffer tracking.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > v2: Fix rebase conflict.
> >>> > > v3: Do not clean cache on BCS ring. Instead use sw frontbuffer
> >>> > > tracking.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> >>> > > ---
> >>> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h         |  1 +
> >>> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c    |  3 +++
> >>> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c         | 10 ++++++++++
> >>> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 10 +++++++++-
> >>> > >  4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>> > >
> >>> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> >>> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> >>> > > index 2a372f2..25d7365 100644
> >>> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> >>> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> >>> > > @@ -2713,6 +2713,7 @@ extern void
> intel_modeset_setup_hw_state(struct
> >>> > > drm_device *dev,
> >>> > >  extern void i915_redisable_vga(struct drm_device *dev);
> >>> > >  extern void i915_redisable_vga_power_on(struct drm_device *dev);
> >>> > >  extern bool intel_fbc_enabled(struct drm_device *dev);
> >>> > > +extern void gen8_fbc_sw_flush(struct drm_device *dev, u32 value);
> >>> > >  extern void intel_disable_fbc(struct drm_device *dev);
> >>> > >  extern bool ironlake_set_drps(struct drm_device *dev, u8 val);
> >>> > >  extern void intel_init_pch_refclk(struct drm_device *dev);
> >>> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> > > index 883af0b..c8421cd 100644
> >>> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
> >>> > > @@ -9044,6 +9044,9 @@ void intel_frontbuffer_flush(struct
> drm_device
> >>> > > *dev,
> >>> > >         intel_mark_fb_busy(dev, frontbuffer_bits, NULL);
> >>> > >
> >>> > >         intel_edp_psr_flush(dev, frontbuffer_bits);
> >>> > > +
> >>> > > +       if (IS_GEN8(dev))
> >>> > > +               gen8_fbc_sw_flush(dev, FBC_REND_CACHE_CLEAN);
> >>> > >  }
> >>> > >
> >>> > >  /**
> >>> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> >>> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> >>> > > index 684dc5f..de07d3e 100644
> >>> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> >>> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> >>> > > @@ -345,6 +345,16 @@ bool intel_fbc_enabled(struct drm_device *dev)
> >>> > >         return dev_priv->display.fbc_enabled(dev);
> >>> > >  }
> >>> > >
> >>> > > +void gen8_fbc_sw_flush(struct drm_device *dev, u32 value)
> >>> > > +{
> >>> > > +       struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
> >>> > > +
> >>> > > +       if (!IS_GEN8(dev))
> >>> > > +               return;
> >>> > > +
> >>> > > +       I915_WRITE(MSG_FBC_REND_STATE, value);
> >>> > > +}
> >>> > > +
> >>> > >  static void intel_fbc_work_fn(struct work_struct *__work)
> >>> > >  {
> >>> > >         struct intel_fbc_work *work =
> >>> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> >>> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> >>> > > index 2908896..2fe871c 100644
> >>> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> >>> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> >>> > > @@ -406,6 +406,7 @@ gen8_render_ring_flush(struct intel_engine_cs
> >>> > > *ring,
> >>> > >  {
> >>> > >         u32 flags = 0;
> >>> > >         u32 scratch_addr = ring->scratch.gtt_offset + 2 *
> >>> > > CACHELINE_BYTES;
> >>> > > +       int ret;
> >>> > >
> >>> > >         flags |= PIPE_CONTROL_CS_STALL;
> >>> > >
> >>> > > @@ -424,7 +425,14 @@ gen8_render_ring_flush(struct intel_engine_cs
> >>> > > *ring,
> >>> > >                 flags |= PIPE_CONTROL_GLOBAL_GTT_IVB;
> >>> > >         }
> >>> > >
> >>> > > -       return gen8_emit_pipe_control(ring, flags, scratch_addr);
> >>> > > +       ret = gen8_emit_pipe_control(ring, flags, scratch_addr);
> >>> > > +       if (ret)
> >>> > > +               return ret;
> >>> > > +
> >>> > > +       if (!invalidate_domains && flush_domains)
> >>> > > +               return gen7_ring_fbc_flush(ring, FBC_REND_NUKE);
> >>> > > +
> >>> > > +       return 0;
> >>> > >  }
> >>> > >
> >>> > >  static void ring_write_tail(struct intel_engine_cs *ring,
> >>> > > --
> >>> > > 1.9.3
> >>> > >
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> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > Rodrigo Vivi
> >>> > Blog: http://blog.vivi.eng.br
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Daniel Vetter
> >>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> >>> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rodrigo Vivi
> >> Blog: http://blog.vivi.eng.br
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Vetter
> > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> > +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
>
>
>
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
>



-- 
Rodrigo Vivi
Blog: http://blog.vivi.eng.br
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