Mesa (master): anv/blorp: Align vertex buffers to 64B

Jason Ekstrand jekstrand at kemper.freedesktop.org
Wed Apr 5 01:34:56 UTC 2017


Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 5d1ba2cb04f58b0c887304f0b8adda0b5623a710
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=5d1ba2cb04f58b0c887304f0b8adda0b5623a710

Author: Jason Ekstrand <jason.ekstrand at intel.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 31 15:21:04 2017 -0700

anv/blorp: Align vertex buffers to 64B

This fixes issues seen when adding support for full 48-bit addresses.
The 48-bit addresses themselves have nothing to do with it other than
that it caused the kernel to place buffers slightly differently so they
interacted differently with the caches.

Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
Cc: "13.0 17.0" <mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org>

---

 src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c b/src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c
index 1d07fd7b5e..7f22b677ea 100644
--- a/src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c
+++ b/src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c
@@ -115,8 +115,21 @@ blorp_alloc_vertex_buffer(struct blorp_batch *batch, uint32_t size,
                           struct blorp_address *addr)
 {
    struct anv_cmd_buffer *cmd_buffer = batch->driver_batch;
+
+   /* From the Skylake PRM, 3DSTATE_VERTEX_BUFFERS:
+    *
+    *    "The VF cache needs to be invalidated before binding and then using
+    *    Vertex Buffers that overlap with any previously bound Vertex Buffer
+    *    (at a 64B granularity) since the last invalidation.  A VF cache
+    *    invalidate is performed by setting the "VF Cache Invalidation Enable"
+    *    bit in PIPE_CONTROL."
+    *
+    * This restriction first appears in the Skylake PRM but the internal docs
+    * also list it as being an issue on Broadwell.  In order to avoid this
+    * problem, we align all vertex buffer allocations to 64 bytes.
+    */
    struct anv_state vb_state =
-      anv_cmd_buffer_alloc_dynamic_state(cmd_buffer, size, 16);
+      anv_cmd_buffer_alloc_dynamic_state(cmd_buffer, size, 64);
 
    *addr = (struct blorp_address) {
       .buffer = &cmd_buffer->device->dynamic_state_block_pool.bo,




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