[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/bdw: MU_FLUSH_DW a qword instead of dword

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Mar 5 19:33:11 CET 2014


On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 09:24:34AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 09:38:56AM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > The actual post sync op is "Write Immediate Data QWord." It is therefore
> > arguable that we should have always done a qword write.
> 
> Not really since the spec explicitly says that we can choose either a
> dword or qword write. Note that qword writes also currently require a
> 64 byte alignment.

Yeah, that's also my reading of the spec - the lenght field selects
whether the hw does a qword or dword write, and the qword needs to be
specially aligned.
-Daniel
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