[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Allow set context SSEU on platforms after gen 11

[Summers, Stuart]

On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 22:29 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Summers, Stuart (2019-09-20 22:09:46)
> > On Thu, 2019-09-19 at 08:00 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > > On 18/09/2019 18:31, Stuart Summers wrote:
> > > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110559
> > > 
> > > Unless there was some discussion I missed we can't just turn it
> > > on
> > > to 
> > > work around a SKIP in IGT. Feature was deliberately limited to
> > > Icelake 
> > > and even there just to a sub-set of possible configurations.
> > 
> > No conversation was missed, or at least none I was a part of. Is
> > there
> > a reason we don't allow this on future platforms?
> > 
> > We do claim powergate support on TGL, so I assumed it would be good
> > to
> > take this path on that platform. Maybe I'm misunderstanding
> > something
> > here though.
> 
> The current interface is purely to work around a silicon issue on
> icl.
> It was not developed into a fully reconfigurable sseu interface
> mostly
> due to a lack of demonstrable need and a lack of appreciation of the
> tradeoffs between different system users (along with the claim that
> this
> is all meant to be handled by instructions in the command stream...).
> Another team did try to autoadjust sseu but also did not produce the
> rationale nor attempt to integrate with the existing code.

Ok that makes sense then and thanks for the explanations here. Please
consider my patch dropped :)

-Stuart

> -Chris
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