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| author | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2018-12-28 14:07:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2018-12-28 14:43:27 +0000 |
| commit | 6faf5916e6beb0dedb0fcbbafbaa152adeaea758 (patch) | |
| tree | 060167be32a7b4951e5ed05054d6e93ed877916d /drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | |
| parent | 167bc759e8236f93d501253ec1a75431fedb5b3f (diff) | |
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drm/i915: Remove HW semaphores for gen7 inter-engine synchronisation
The writing is on the wall for the existence of a single execution queue
along each engine, and as a consequence we will not be able to track
dependencies along the HW queue itself, i.e. we will not be able to use
HW semaphores on gen7 as they use a global set of registers (and unlike
gen8+ we can not effectively target memory to keep per-context seqno and
dependencies).
On the positive side, when we implement request reordering for gen7 we
also can not presume a simple execution queue and would also require
removing the current semaphore generation code. So this bring us another
step closer to request reordering for ringbuffer submission!
The negative side is that using interrupts to drive inter-engine
synchronisation is much slower (4us -> 15us to do a nop on each of the 3
engines on ivb). This is much better than it was at the time of introducing
the HW semaphores and equally important userspace weaned itself off
intermixing dependent BLT/RENDER operations (the prime culprit was glyph
rendering in UXA). So while we regress the microbenchmarks, it should not
impact the user.
References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108888
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181228140736.32606-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h index 936ec09c9490..287f06b9e95a 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h @@ -1948,7 +1948,6 @@ struct drm_i915_private { struct list_head active_rings; struct list_head closed_vma; u32 active_requests; - u32 request_serial; /** * Is the GPU currently considered idle, or busy executing @@ -2396,8 +2395,6 @@ intel_info(const struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv) #define HAS_BLT(dev_priv) HAS_ENGINE(dev_priv, BCS) #define HAS_VEBOX(dev_priv) HAS_ENGINE(dev_priv, VECS) -#define HAS_LEGACY_SEMAPHORES(dev_priv) IS_GEN(dev_priv, 7) - #define HAS_LLC(dev_priv) ((dev_priv)->info.has_llc) #define HAS_SNOOP(dev_priv) ((dev_priv)->info.has_snoop) #define HAS_EDRAM(dev_priv) (!!((dev_priv)->edram_cap & EDRAM_ENABLED)) |