Re: [PATCH v3] drm/i915: Emit to ringbuffer directly

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On 12/09/16 10:44, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>

This removes the usage of intel_ring_emit in favour of
directly writing to the ring buffer.

intel_ring_emit was preventing the compiler for optimising
fetch and increment of the current ring buffer pointer and
therefore generating very verbose code for every write.

It had no useful purpose since all ringbuffer operations
are started and ended with intel_ring_begin and
intel_ring_advance respectively, with no bail out in the
middle possible, so it is fine to increment the tail in
intel_ring_begin and let the code manage the pointer
itself.

Useless instruction removal amounts to approximately
two and half kilobytes of saved text on my build.

Not sure if this has any measurable performance
implications but executing a ton of useless instructions
on fast paths cannot be good.

Patch is not fully polished, but it compiles and runs
on Gen9 at least.

v2:
 * Change return from intel_ring_begin to error pointer by
   popular demand.
 * Move tail increment to intel_ring_advance to enable some
   error checking.

v3:
 * Move tail advance back into intel_ring_begin.

Downside of this is that you now have no check that _advance() is ever called, let alone called once per begin. If we want to strictly enforce the begin-advance pairing, _advance() has to do something, either something that is necessary for the next _begin(), or at least reset some state flag that tracks whether we're between a begin and an advance, or an advance and a begin (when writing to the ring is not allowed!).

.Dave.

 * Rebase and tidy.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c    |  75 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c |  37 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c        |  70 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c       | 132 +++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c           | 245 ++++++-----
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_mocs.c          |  53 ++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_overlay.c       |  88 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c    | 638 ++++++++++++++---------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h    |  24 +-
 9 files changed, 655 insertions(+), 707 deletions(-)

[snip]

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
index 7f64d611159b..53dcd7b9a72d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
@@ -456,30 +456,12 @@ void intel_legacy_submission_resume(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv);

 int intel_ring_alloc_request_extras(struct drm_i915_gem_request *request);

-int __must_check intel_ring_begin(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req, int n);
+u32 __must_check *intel_ring_begin(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req, int n);
 int __must_check intel_ring_cacheline_align(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req);

-static inline void intel_ring_emit(struct intel_ring *ring, u32 data)
+static inline void intel_ring_advance(struct intel_ring *ring, u32 *rbuf)
 {
-	*(uint32_t *)(ring->vaddr + ring->tail) = data;
-	ring->tail += 4;
-}
-
-static inline void intel_ring_emit_reg(struct intel_ring *ring, i915_reg_t reg)
-{
-	intel_ring_emit(ring, i915_mmio_reg_offset(reg));
-}
-
-static inline void intel_ring_advance(struct intel_ring *ring)
-{
-	/* Dummy function.
-	 *
-	 * This serves as a placeholder in the code so that the reader
-	 * can compare against the preceding intel_ring_begin() and
-	 * check that the number of dwords emitted matches the space
-	 * reserved for the command packet (i.e. the value passed to
-	 * intel_ring_begin()).
-	 */
+	GEM_BUG_ON((ring->vaddr + ring->tail) != rbuf);
 }

 static inline u32 intel_ring_offset(struct intel_ring *ring, u32 value)


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