[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Restrict GPU boost to the RCS engine

[Deepak S]

Hi Chris/Daniel,

The patch is  helping in some of the side-effects due to gpu boost. I still need to get more data. I will keep the thread updated.

Thanks
Deepak

On Thursday 12 June 2014 03:02 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Adding Deepak for testing, this hopefully alleviates the bad
> side-effects of the gpu booster he's seeing.
> -Daniel
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
>> Make the assumption that media workloads are not as latency sensitive
>> for __wait_seqno, and that upclocking the GPU does not affect the BLT
>> engine. Under that assumption, we only wait to forcibly upclock the GPU
>> when we are stalling for results from the render pipeline.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> index 5951618a6b08..242b595a0403 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
>> @@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ static int __wait_seqno(struct intel_engine_cs *ring, u32 seqno,
>>
>>          timeout_expire = timeout ? jiffies + timespec_to_jiffies_timeout(timeout) : 0;
>>
>> -       if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen >= 6 && can_wait_boost(file_priv)) {
>> +       if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen >= 6 && ring->id == RCS && can_wait_boost(file_priv)) {
>>                  gen6_rps_boost(dev_priv);
>>                  if (file_priv)
>>                          mod_delayed_work(dev_priv->wq,
>> --
>> 2.0.0
>>
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