[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 6/8] drm/i915: Fix PSF GV point mask when SAGV is not possible

[Lisovskiy, Stanislav]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 09:08:12PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 08:59:59PM +0200, Lisovskiy, Stanislav wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 06:49:46PM +0200, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> > > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Don't just mask off all the PSF GV points when SAGV gets disabled.
> > > This should in fact cause the Pcode to reject the request since
> > > at least one PSF point must remain enabled at all times.
> > 
> > Good point, however I think this is not the full fix:
> > 
> > BSpec says:
> > 
> > "At least one GV point of each type must always remain unmasked."
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > "The GV point of each type providing the highest bandwidth 
> >  for display must always remain unmasked."
> > 
> > So I guess we should then also choose thr PSF GV point with
> > the highest bandwidth as well.
> 
> The spec says PSF GV is fast enough to now stall the display data
> fetch so we don't need to restrict the PSF points here.

But why it asks to ensure that we have the PSF GV of highest bandwidth to
stay always unmasked then?

Stan

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> Ville Syrjälä
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