[Intel-gfx] Guc parameter Handling

[Arkadiusz Hiler]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:36:40PM +0000, Srivatsa, Anusha wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if we intend to keep -1 and 2 for the
> enable_guc_submission parameter. Since now we are gating guc loads if
> either guc_submission or enable_huc parameter is set, why have a
> -1(platform default) and 2(forcefully load) option? We anyway do not
> have any special default set per platform. For now the default is 0 on
> all platforms. Moving forward if GuC gets more stable and we want to
> set a default to a certain platform, we can add -1 then.
> 
> Also, why have a 2? We can use enable_guc_submission=1 in order to
> make sure the guc is loaded and guc_submission is enabled and set
> enable_guc_submission=0 to make sure guc submission is not used.

I've asked around on IRC yesterday for the exact same thing, and it
seems that no one realy does remembery why the "2" was introduced in the
first place.

We not simplifying it, if we do not have real use case for having 1 and
2 separate?

> Any thought on this?

> Cheers,
> Anusha

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Cheers,
Arek