[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i965: Simplify MOCS mashing in genX_state_upload.c.

Lionel Landwerlin lionel.g.landwerlin at intel.com
Thu Aug 24 15:22:01 UTC 2017


On 24/08/17 16:15, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> On Thursday, August 24, 2017 4:04:26 AM PDT Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
>> Looks good, but it looks like you could replace an additional one in
>> upload_push_constant_packets().
> That one is a bit weird - it uses 0 on Gen8+.  I've wondered about that,
> actually - the docs claim that you must use 0 - but at least on Skylake,
> 0 is an entry in the table that means uncached.  So is the requirement
> that the bits be 0, or the requirement that you bypass caching?
>
> Things we'll never know I guess.  I'm not sure if it matters, though,
> since it's just pulling the data into a segment of the L3 anyway...so
> it's only read one time...
>
> At any rate, I left it open coded because it's different than the others.
>
>> Also why not name it GEN_MOCS ? (so it's a bit more consistent with
>> other macros defined per gen).
>>
>> Thanks!
> I like this.  Changed locally.


Reviewed-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin at intel.com>



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