[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Skip clearing the GGTT on full-ppgtt systems

[Joonas Lahtinen]

On to, 2016-05-12 at 12:19 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Under full-ppgtt, access to the global GTT is carefully regulated
> through hardware functions (i.e. userspace cannot read and write to
> arbitrary locations in the GGTT via the GPU). With this restriction in
> place, we can forgo clearing stale entries from the GGTT as they will
> not be accessed.
> 
> For aliasing-ppgtt, we could almost do the same except that we do allow
> userspace access to the global-GTT via execbuf in order to workraound
> some quirks of certain instructions. (This execbuf path is filtered out
> with EINVAL on full-ppgtt.)
> 
> The most dramatic effect this will have will be during resume, as with
> full-ppgtt the GGTT is only used sparingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: David Weinehall <david.weinehall at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> index 319f3b459b3e..7eab619a3eb2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> @@ -2477,6 +2477,13 @@ static void gen6_ggtt_insert_entries(struct i915_address_space *vm,
>  	assert_rpm_atomic_end(dev_priv, rpm_atomic_seq);
>  }
>  
> +static void nop_clear_range(struct i915_address_space *vm,
> +			    uint64_t start,
> +			    uint64_t length,
> +			    bool use_scratch)
> +{
> +}
> +
>  static void gen8_ggtt_clear_range(struct i915_address_space *vm,
>  				  uint64_t start,
>  				  uint64_t length,
> @@ -3072,14 +3079,17 @@ static int gen8_gmch_probe(struct i915_ggtt *ggtt)
>  
>  	ret = ggtt_probe_common(dev, ggtt->size);
>  
> -	ggtt->base.clear_range = gen8_ggtt_clear_range;
> -	if (IS_CHERRYVIEW(dev_priv))
> -		ggtt->base.insert_entries = gen8_ggtt_insert_entries__BKL;
> -	else
> -		ggtt->base.insert_entries = gen8_ggtt_insert_entries;

This form looks better to my eyes, especially once you start adding a
couple of other if ()'s for same callback.

BAT seems to have gone crazy with this patch, too.

>  	ggtt->base.bind_vma = ggtt_bind_vma;
>  	ggtt->base.unbind_vma = ggtt_unbind_vma;
>  
> +	ggtt->base.clear_range = nop_clear_range;
> +	if (!USES_FULL_PPGTT(dev_priv))
> +		ggtt->base.clear_range = gen8_ggtt_clear_range;
> +
> +	ggtt->base.insert_entries = gen8_ggtt_insert_entries;
> +	if (IS_CHERRYVIEW(dev_priv))
> +		ggtt->base.insert_entries = gen8_ggtt_insert_entries__BKL;
> +
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation