[Nouveau] [PATCH] nv50: only over-allocate by a page for code
Ilia Mirkin
imirkin at alum.mit.edu
Mon Feb 3 23:32:09 PST 2014
The pre-fetching doesn't go too far. Tested with over-allocating by only
a page, and didn't see any errors in dmesg. Saves ~512KB of VRAM.
Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
Cc: 10.1 <mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org>
---
src/gallium/drivers/nouveau/nv50/nv50_screen.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/nouveau/nv50/nv50_screen.c b/src/gallium/drivers/nouveau/nv50/nv50_screen.c
index bdfb931..b02b6f8 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/nouveau/nv50/nv50_screen.c
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/nouveau/nv50/nv50_screen.c
@@ -747,12 +747,13 @@ nv50_screen_create(struct nouveau_device *dev)
goto fail;
}
- /* This over-allocates by a whole code BO. The GP, which would execute at
- * the end of the last page, would trigger faults. The going theory is that
- * it prefetches up to a certain amount. This avoids dmesg spam.
+ /* This over-allocates by a page. The GP, which would execute at the end of
+ * the last page, would trigger faults. The going theory is that it
+ * prefetches up to a certain amount. This avoids dmesg spam.
*/
ret = nouveau_bo_new(dev, NOUVEAU_BO_VRAM, 1 << 16,
- 4 << NV50_CODE_BO_SIZE_LOG2, NULL, &screen->code);
+ (3 << NV50_CODE_BO_SIZE_LOG2) + 0x1000,
+ NULL, &screen->code);
if (ret) {
NOUVEAU_ERR("Failed to allocate code bo: %d\n", ret);
goto fail;
--
1.8.3.2
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