[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/13] Forcewake binary search & code shrink

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 04:35:43PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> 
> A bunch of cleaned up patches from one of my old branches. Just an idea I had
> been toying about and probably more a RFC at this point. But it amazingly
> passed trybot on (almost) the first try so I got tempted to post it.
> 
> Basically main motivation was to replace linear search comparison ladders in
> all mmio accessors with something smarter - a binary search in this case.
> 
> Main enabler is moving the comparison ladders from the code into the data
> tables. Then gradually, patch by patch, I was able to reduce the code and
> end up with a total saving of approximately 14KiB for the series.
> 
> That is kind of nice, but whether the churn is worth it I leave open for
> dicussion. It is slightly less code so perhaps more maintainable. Although
> tastes will probably differ.

More declarative approach, yes please. Looks really nice.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre