[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/icl, tgl: whitelist COMMON_SLICE_CHICKEN3 register

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Feb 5 13:33:47 UTC 2021


Quoting Sagar Ghuge (2021-02-05 00:33:10)
> Adding this register to whitelist will allow UMD to toggle State Cache
> Perf fix disable chicken bit.
> 
>    "If this bit is enabled, RCC uses BTP+BTI as address tag in its state
>    cache instead of BTI only"
> 
> which will lead to dropping unnecessary render target flushes and stall
> on scoreboard.

The rest of the register looks safe to expose, and it passes our sanity
checks that the register is local to the context and should not affect
others.

> Bspec: 11333
> Bspec: 45829
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sagar Ghuge <sagar.ghuge at intel.com>

Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

The only missing piece of the puzzle that Joonas will require is a
Link: to a reviewed userspace patch/MR to confirm the uABI.
-Chris


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