[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Make sample_c messages go faster on Haswell.

[Kenneth Graunke]

On Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:00:51 AM Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:50:03AM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:12:43PM -0700, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> > > Haswell significantly improved the performance of sampler_c messages,
> > > but the optimization appears to be off by default.  Later platforms
> > > remove this bit, and apparently always enable the optimization.
> > > 
> > > Improves performance in "Counter Strike: Global Offensive" by 18%
> > > at default settings on Iris Pro.  No Piglit regressions.
> > 
> > Nice. We need more bits like this ;)
> > 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h | 1 +
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 4 ++++
> > >  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> > > index 77fce96..340821a 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> > > @@ -5952,6 +5952,7 @@ enum punit_power_well {
> > >  #define  HSW_ROW_CHICKEN3_L3_GLOBAL_ATOMICS_DISABLE    (1 << 6)
> > >  
> > >  #define HALF_SLICE_CHICKEN3		0xe184
> > > +#define   HSW_SAMPLE_C_PERFORMANCE	(1<<9)
> > >  #define   GEN8_CENTROID_PIXEL_OPT_DIS	(1<<8)
> > >  #define   GEN8_SAMPLER_POWER_BYPASS_DIS	(1<<1)
> > >  
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> > > index 7a69eba..50c72a7 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> > > @@ -5736,6 +5736,10 @@ static void haswell_init_clock_gating(struct 
drm_device *dev)
> > >  	I915_WRITE(GEN7_GT_MODE,
> > >  		   GEN6_WIZ_HASHING_MASK | GEN6_WIZ_HASHING_16x4);
> > >  
> > > +	/* Make sample_c messages faster. */
> > 
> > I found a name for it in the w/a database.
> > 
> > WaSampleCChickenBitEnable:hsw
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Oh actually it says palette won't work when this bit is on. I'm assuming
> that's the texture palette. Do we have any use of that anywhere?

That's a good point.  3DSTATE_SAMPLER_PALETTE_LOAD and the A8P8/indexed 
formats aren't used by Mesa or xf86-video-intel, but it looks like they might 
be used by libva.

Can someone confirm that libva does use the sampler palette?

If they do, what do we do about it?

--Ken
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