[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 00/14] Forcewake binary search & code shrink

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 06:48:35PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> 
> Motivation was to replace linear search comparison if-else ladders in MMIO
> accessors with a data driven approach.
> 
> These lookups are needed to determine to correct forcewake domains to take
> when reading and writing to MMIO registers.
> 
> Going data driven and keeping the tables sorted enabled binary search to be
> used. Followed by gradual extraction of commonality between existing functions,
> accompanying code reduction, and the end result is around 15KiB less code
> generated and also some saving in the source code lines.
> 
> v2:
>  * Updated cover letter given feedback.
>  * Some rework for review comments.
>  * New patch in the series (14) to inline the binary search.
> 
> Tvrtko Ursulin (14):
>   drm/i915: Remove redundant hsw_write* mmio functions
>   drm/i915: Keep track of active forcewake domains in a bitmask
>   drm/i915: Do not inline forcewake taking in mmio accessors
>   drm/i915: Data driven register to forcewake domains lookup
>   drm/i915: Sort forcewake mapping tables
>   drm/i915: Use binary search when looking up forcewake domains
>   drm/i915: Eliminate Gen9 special case
>   drm/i915: Store the active forcewake range table pointer
>   drm/i915: Remove identical macros
>   drm/i915: Remove identical mmio read functions
>   drm/i915: Remove identical write mmmio functions
>   drm/i915: Sort the shadow register table
>   drm/i915: Use binary search when looking for shadowed registers
>   drm/i915: Inline binary search

Minor comments notwithstanding,
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre