Re: GART write flush error on SI w/ amdgpu

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On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 at 00:03, Marek Olšák <maraeo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Christian König
> <deathsimple@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am 20.06.2017 um 12:34 schrieb Marek Olšák:
> >>
> >> BTW, I noticed the flush sequence in the kernel is wrong. The correct
> >> flush sequence should be:
> >>
> >> 1) EVENT_WRITE_EOP - CACHE_FLUSH_AND_INV_TS - write a dword to memory,
> >> but no fence/interrupt.
> >> 2) WAIT_REG_MEM on the dword to wait for idle before SURFACE_SYNC.
> >> 3) SURFACE_SYNC (TC, K$, I$)
> >> 4) Write CP_COHER_CNTL2.
> >> 5) EVENT_WRITE_EOP - BOTTOM_OF_PIPE_TS - write the fence with the
> >> interrupt.
> >>
> >> WAIT_REG_MEM wouldn't be needed if we were able to merge
> >> CACHE_FLUSH_AND_INV, SURFACE_SYNC, and CP_COHER_CNTL2 into one EOP
> >> event.
> >>
> >> The main issue with the current flush sequence in radeon and amdgpu is
> >> that it doesn't wait for idle before writing CP_COHER_CNTL2 and
> >> SURFACE_SYNC. So far we've been able to avoid the bug by waiting for
> >> idle in userspace IBs.
> >
> >
> > Well not waiting for idle between IBs is an explicit requirement, because it
> > is rather bad for performance to do so.
> >
> > David Zhou, Monk and I worked quite a lot on this to avoid both possible
> > hazard and performance drop.
>
> I guess the requirement was ignored for SI. If you don't do the TC
> flush as part the EOP event, you have to wait for idle before
> SURFACE_SYNC, because SURFACE_SYNC doesn't wait for idle. It's kinda
> useless to flush TC when shaders are still in flight.

I've been chasing Verde wierdness, did this issue ever get resolved?

Dave.
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