[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/13] RadeonSI cache flushing improvements for CIK

[Marek Olšák]

Hi,

The motivation for this patch series is to reduce the number of TC L2 cache flushes.

The result is that TC L2 is only flushed at IB boundary and when the framebuffer is changed. This is achieved by switching all clients to use the cache, so that all data is coherent between clients. In this case, only CP DMA needs to be switched. Shaders and WRITE_DATA already use it. Index buffers can't use the cache, so they are handled as a special case in the code. That is for CIK.

As far as SI is concerned, CP DMA can't use TC L2. Only WRITE_DATA can and it does use the cache at the moment, which could produce corrupted resource descriptors in theory. (mixing uncached CP DMA and cached WRITE_DATA without flushes in between for updating descriptors is certainly unsafe) This is fixed in this series too as well as other things I discovered.

Please review.

Marek