[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 04/31] drm/i915: Handle actual IPS enabled state.

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 06:20:00PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi Rodrigo,
> 
> On 5 November 2015 at 18:49, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com> wrote:
> > With this we know if IPS is actually enabled.
> > It might not be activated on BDW since Hardware take
> > the decision and do its transition. However we have
> > the visibility of the state on our driver what we didn't
> > had until this patch. At least on BDW.
> >
> > Since ips_ready means that ips will be enabled and ips_disable()
> > checks for the state of our enabled/disabled state machine
> > we can remove that FIXME that was there for crtc_load_lut
> > workaround for Haswell.
> >
> > With this state machine and ips being disabled from
> > different places and many times when testcases with sink_crtc
> > for instance it is better to have it protected with its own mutex lock.
> > Ohterwise we cannot guarantee consitent ips.enabled state with the
> > register bit.
> 
> Thinking about this, I have two comments (and second Chris's
> similar-ish comment about PSR):
> 
> Should this perhaps be a CRTC property rather than a device property?
> Is it tied to a particular pipe, or can it move away from pipe A?
> 
> Secondly, having a vblank wait to enable IPS is pretty unfortunate, as
> it makes modesets take longer. I like the PSR enable being split away
> from the modeset sequence, so perhaps we could do something like:
> 
> enum ips_state {
>   IPS_DISABLED = 0, /**< unsupported or explicitly disabled by module param */
>   IPS_READY, /**< IPS can be enabled if a suitable state is applied to
> the CRTC (planes enabled, cdclk not exceeding 95% on BDW) */
>   IPS_ARMED, /**< suitable configuration applied; IPS pending activation */
>   IPS_ACTIVE
> };
> 
> Having this on the CRTC state means that we could walk through the
> following process:
>   - IPS_READY set on suitable platforms when not explictly disabled
>   - modeset arrives: atomic_check examines conditions and changes
> state from IPS_READY to IPS_ARMED
>   - next pageflip arrives and changes state from IPS_ARMED to
> IPS_ACTIVE, activates IPS
> 
> Being a member of the CRTC state means that anyone duplicating the
> pipe's CRTC state could discover the IPS status like that, and
> eliminates the need for a second mutex.
> 
> Maybe that's not the best approach, but I think we need to find a way
> to take the synchronous vblank wait out of the modeset path. Using a
> workqueue is another option, but synchronisation would need to be
> quite carefully handled.

Long time ago I posted a patch to make ips enable asynchronously from
a vblank work.

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC