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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 16-03-18 01:16, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 04:35:55PM -0700, Pandiyan, Dhinakaran wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 23:09 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 14-03-18 21:49, Pandiyan, Dhinakaran wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Cool, thank you. Current drm-tip will all be merged into 4.17-rc1, right?
> 
> Unfortunately no. All changes current in dinq and not on drm-intel-next are only
> going to 4.18-rc1.

Bummer.

Pandiyan, can you make a list of commits or patch-work series links
which contain the PSR related fixes? Then I will try to backport those
to 4.16 (when I find time for this).

Regards,

Hans





> 
>>
>> Rodrigo,
>>
>> Can you help me answer that?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Then I think I will just wait for that, most distros already provide rc builds
>>> for testing, so that way it will be easy for people to test.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Hans
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> -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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