[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: Use unchecked writes for setting up the fences
Joonas Lahtinen
joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com
Tue Jun 4 11:55:00 UTC 2019
Quoting Chris Wilson (2019-05-31 19:11:29)
> As the fence registers are not part of the engine powerwells, we do not
> need to fiddle with forcewake in order to update a fence. Avoid using
> the heavyweight debug checking normal mmio writes as the checking
> dominates the selftest runtime and is superfluous!
>
> In the process, retire the I915_WRITE() implicit macro with the new
> intel_uncore_write interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
I think 'uncore' isn't too long to write fully. Assuming I
noticed all the code changes from the renames, this is:
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
I still can't but think of the _fw prefixed functions as something that
specifically _forcewake{_device_up}, but maybe it's just me who is
confused.
Regards, Joonas
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