[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] drm/i915: Improve HiZ throughput on Cherryview.

Kenneth Graunke kenneth at whitecape.org
Sat Jan 10 18:02:22 PST 2015


Found by reading the HIZ_CHICKEN documentation.

Improves performance in a HiZ microbenchmark by around 50%.
Improves performance in OglZBuffer by around 18%.

Thanks to Chris Wilson for helping me figure out where to put this.

Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h         | 3 +++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
index 0f32fd1a..a39bb03 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
@@ -5202,6 +5202,9 @@ enum punit_power_well {
 #define COMMON_SLICE_CHICKEN2			0x7014
 # define GEN8_CSC2_SBE_VUE_CACHE_CONSERVATIVE	(1<<0)
 
+#define HIZ_CHICKEN				0x7018
+# define CHV_HZ_8X8_MODE_IN_1X			(1<<15)
+
 #define GEN7_L3SQCREG1				0xB010
 #define  VLV_B0_WA_L3SQCREG1_VALUE		0x00D30000
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 12a36f0..dabc1d8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -836,6 +836,9 @@ static int chv_init_workarounds(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
 			  HDC_FORCE_NON_COHERENT |
 			  HDC_DONOT_FETCH_MEM_WHEN_MASKED);
 
+	/* Improve HiZ throughput on CHV. */
+	WA_SET_BIT_MASKED(HIZ_CHICKEN, CHV_HZ_8X8_MODE_IN_1X);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.2.1



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