[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/4] drm/i915: Finish the ack+handler split for irq handler

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 04:55:25PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Ville Syrjala (2019-04-15 16:49:00)
> > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > I never finished the irq ack+handler split for ilk+. Let's try to do
> > that now since people seem keen on cleaning up stuff in there. One
> > thing I didn't dare touch is gen11_gt_irq_handler() as that thing
> > looks a bit nuts.
> > 
> > A bit of a downside:
> > Total: Before=39303, After=40393, chg +2.77%
> > 
> > If we changed all _ack()s to raw_reg_{read,write} we'd get:
> > Total: Before=39303, After=39258, chg -0.11%
> > but that ignores the "hang when accessing registers in the
> > same cacheline" fail. So would need a bit more thought.
> 
> Otoh, all irq registers should be guarded by either the
> dev_priv->irq_lock spinlock or be single threaded by the nature of
> interrupt dispatch (handwavy). So we might be able to argue that for the
> limited set of registers accessed here, we should be safe.

Hmm. Yes, I suppose you are correct. The only thing that might bite us
is some unguarded READ_FW()s etc. I guess we can hope those don't exist.
At least I can't immediately spot anything that looks dangerous.

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel