[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: Use WC copies on !llc platforms for the command parser

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Oct 1 04:57:12 PDT 2015


Since we blow the TLB caches by using kmap/kunmap, we may as well go the
whole hog and see if declaring our destination page as WC is faster than
keeping it as WB and using clflush. It should be!

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
index 0e826bec7942..f4d4c3132932 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
@@ -984,9 +984,10 @@ int i915_parse_cmds(struct intel_engine_cs *ring,
 	const struct drm_i915_cmd_descriptor *desc = &default_desc;
 	u32 last_cmd_header = 0;
 	unsigned dst_iter, src_iter;
-	int needs_clflush = 0;
 	struct get_page rewind;
 	void *src, *dst;
+	int src_needs_clflush = 0;
+	bool dst_needs_clflush;
 	unsigned in, out;
 	u32 *buf, partial = 0, length = 1;
 	bool oacontrol_set = false; /* OACONTROL tracking. See check_cmd() */
@@ -999,13 +1000,19 @@ int i915_parse_cmds(struct intel_engine_cs *ring,
 	if (WARN_ON(shadow_batch_obj->pages_pin_count == 0))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	ret = i915_gem_obj_prepare_shmem_read(batch_obj, &needs_clflush);
+	ret = i915_gem_obj_prepare_shmem_read(batch_obj, &src_needs_clflush);
 	if (ret) {
 		DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("CMD: failed to prepare shadow batch\n");
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	ret = i915_gem_object_set_to_cpu_domain(shadow_batch_obj, true);
+	dst_needs_clflush =
+		shadow_batch_obj->base.write_domain != I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU &&
+		!INTEL_INFO(shadow_batch_obj->base.dev)->has_llc;
+	if (dst_needs_clflush)
+		ret = i915_gem_object_set_to_gtt_domain(shadow_batch_obj, true);
+	else
+		ret = i915_gem_object_set_to_cpu_domain(shadow_batch_obj, true);
 	if (ret) {
 		DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("CMD: Failed to set shadow batch to CPU\n");
 		goto unpin;
@@ -1035,7 +1042,7 @@ int i915_parse_cmds(struct intel_engine_cs *ring,
 			this = PAGE_SIZE - in;
 
 		src = kmap_atomic(i915_gem_object_get_page(batch_obj, src_iter));
-		if (needs_clflush)
+		if (src_needs_clflush)
 			drm_clflush_virt_range(src + in, this);
 
 		i = this;
@@ -1054,10 +1061,17 @@ int i915_parse_cmds(struct intel_engine_cs *ring,
 			k = i;
 			if (k > PAGE_SIZE - out)
 				k = PAGE_SIZE - out;
-			if (k == PAGE_SIZE)
+			if (k == PAGE_SIZE) {
 				copy_page(dst, src);
-			else
+			} else {
+				/* Partial cache lines need clflushing */
+				if (dst_needs_clflush &&
+				    (out | k) & (boot_cpu_data.x86_clflush_size - 1))
+					drm_clflush_virt_range(dst + out, k);
 				memcpy(dst + out, src + j, k);
+			}
+			if (dst_needs_clflush)
+				drm_clflush_virt_range(dst + out, k);
 
 			out += k;
 			j += k;
-- 
2.6.0



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