[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/skl: Enabling PSR on Skylake

[sonika]

On Wednesday 21 January 2015 02:07 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:01:25PM -0800, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
>> Hi Sonika, for the login screen my guess is that blinking cursor
>> waiting for password blocks psr entry.
>>
>> For test cases I started the test case enhancement but my psr work is
>> paused this month for bug maintainance. Any help is welcome.
>> I was planing also to take a look on new Paulo's fbc tests cases to
>> see if we could use some pieces on PSR validation. might be worth to
>> take a look.
>>
>> But anyway, for HW tracking I would only consider when I use a KDE for
>> a while without missing any screen updates and seeing perf counter
>> increasing. But if you tell this is what happening I trust you and we
>> can add support for that since it is disabled by default and validate
>> that carefully also on SKL when trying to enable it by default
>> everywhere.
> I'm definitely leaning the other way: Before we take out the sw tracking
> for some platforms I want the full psr validation to be done (since
> otherwise no one will do it again and for skl+1 we have the same hilarious
> saga again). And if we figure out that the hw tracking has indeed become
> better and is now useful, then we can do the same thing like Paulo's fbc
> patches and ignore some sw invalidate events selectively. But only when
> the tests are solid, we're sure we have full coverage and that the hw
> really works for that use-case.
> -Daniel
Ok, I like the idea of selectively ignoring sw invalidates. And then 
PSR2's HW tracking will still hold good
in those cases. I think we can have a module parameter (hw_tracking) 
instead of checking for platform
everywhere.
Please let me know if it sounds better.
-Sonika