Re: [PATCH 7/8] drm/i915: Defer enabling rc6 til after we submit the first batch/context

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 04:56:50PM +0300, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
> Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Some hardware requires a valid render context before it can initiate
> > rc6 power gating of the GPU; the default state of the GPU is not
> > sufficient and may lead to undefined behaviour. The first execution of
> > any batch will load the "golden render state", at which point it is safe
> > to enable rc6. As we do not forcibly load the kernel context at resume,
> > we have to hook into the batch submission to be sure that the render
> > state is setup before enabling rc6.
> >
> > However, since we don't enable powersaving until that first batch, we
> > queued a delayed task in order to guarantee that the batch is indeed
> > submitted.
> >
> > v2: Rearrange intel_disable_gt_powersave() to match.
> > v3: Apply user specified cur_freq (or idle_freq if not set).
> > v4: Give in, and supply a delayed work to autoenable rc6
> > v5: Mika suggested a couple of better names for delayed_resume_work
> > v6: Rebalance rpm_put around the autoenable task
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ta for splitting stuff out from this patch(set) to smaller
> bits.

It was only in the other because I was waiting for you to come back from
holiday! (And trying to progress the other means sending all patches up
to that point so that CI has a hope of sanity checking them.)
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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