[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/3] PSR lag fixes

[Pandiyan, Dhinakaran]

On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 09:25 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 12-02-18 18:42, Pandiyan, Dhinakaran wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-02-12 at 09:45 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 12-02-18 07:08, Dhinakaran Pandiyan wrote:
> >>> PSR currently when enabled results in semi-permanent freezes or noticeable
> >>> cursor lags.
> >>>
> >>> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/37598/ will fix long freezes due
> >>> to frame counter resets.
> >>>
> >>> This series has three more fixes -
> >>> Patch 1 eliminates PSR exit for flips and makes us rely on the HW to do it.
> >>> Patch 2 fixes cusor move lag by relying on HW to exit PSR.
> >>> Patch 3 fixes temporary freeze seen with fbdev.
> >>>
> >>> With both the series applied, PSR on my SKL ThinkPad feels pretty good.
> >>
> >> Thank you for your great work on this.
> >>
> >> Are there any more PSR fixes in the pipeline?
> > 
> > Yeah, there are a few more fixes that I hope will appear on the list in
> > the next two weeks or so.
> 
> Ok, can you send a mail when you're done (in sofar any software is ever
> "done") and you would like me to ask all people who have been kind enough
> to test PSR to retest ?
> 

Hi Hans,

Thanks for your patience and help. I believe the current drm-tip is in a
decent shape to retest PSR. Booting with i915.enable_psr = 1 is still
needed. The fixes have been mostly developed/tested on gen-9 hardware
but they apply to other platforms too.

-DK

> >> If not I think I should do
> >> a custom Fedora kernel build based on 4.15 + recent fixes and ask all my
> >> testers to retest with that.
> >>
> >> I do have some questions before I do this:
> >>
> >> 1) I believe that only testers with skylake (normal or LP) or newer should
> >> re-test, correct?
> > 
> > These fixes do apply for HSW/BDW, so essentially all the big cores
> > supporting PSR. But, HSW/BDW need fixes for AUX channel-PSR interaction
> > also. I haven't looked into CHV/VLV.
> > 
> >>
> >> 2) I know there are 2 series (including this one), can someone provide a link
> >> to the latest patchwork version of those 2 series, or even better a git
> >> branch with 4.15 + those patches? Any patches I'm missing if I pick up these
> >> 2 series?
> > 
> > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/37598/
> > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/38067/
> > 
> > 
> >> 3) I'm thinking 4.15 atm, but I could also do a 4.16-rc1 test kernel instead
> >> if that would be better, would that be better ?
> > 
> > I can't think of any diff that would affect PSR, but the latest is
> > better I suppose.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
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