On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:27:36PM +0300, Mika Kuoppala wrote: > Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Instead of flushing the outstanding enabling, remember the requested > > frequency to apply when the powersave work runs. > > > > As all the query side values will get initialized only after the first > rc6 initialization is done, you will introduce a window of ~1second > where userspace will get uninitliazed values from sysfs reads. > > The debugfs side with i915_frequency_info and i915_ring_freq_table > are fine as it is a boon that they will not force a flush and > show the current hardware/driver state. > > The 'why' part of the commit message is on the thin side, so > I don't know if these will nullify your goals but: > consider leaving the flushing still in place for sysfs query > side or split out the rps freq value initialization from rps > enabling. The why part is that sysfs currently modifies the state it is observing upon, and so does not faithfully report the correct values. The goal is correct programming of user values and not fudging them. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
