Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/cmdparser: Limit clflush to active cachelines

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Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:04:16AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:58:44AM +0200, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
>> > Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > 
>> > > We only need to clflush those cachelines that we have validated to be
>> > > read by the GPU. Userspace typically fills the batch length in
>> > > correctly, the exceptions tend to be explicit tests within igt.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > ---
>> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c | 3 ++-
>> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> > >
>> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
>> > > index 21b1cd917d81..b9ce9a6881ea 100644
>> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
>> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
>> > > @@ -1331,7 +1331,8 @@ int intel_engine_cmd_parser(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
>> > >  	}
>> > >  
>> > >  	if (ret == 0 && needs_clflush_after)
>> > > -		drm_clflush_virt_range(shadow_batch_obj->mm.mapping, batch_len);
>> > > +		drm_clflush_virt_range(shadow_batch_obj->mm.mapping,
>> > > +				       (void *)cmd - shadow_batch_obj->mm.mapping);
>> > 
>> > (void *)cmd - ptr_mask_bit(shadow_batch_obj->mm.mapping)
>> > 
>> > We get away as the wb mapping being zero but for correctness.
>> 
>> The low bits of mm.mapping cannot change the cacheline and so doesn't
>> affect the clflush. Same as before.
>
> Although, not quite the same as before as before we didn't use a fixed
> end-point and so it could overshoot by a cacheline, even across a page
> boundary.

And there could be PAGE_MASK worth of lowbits.
-Mika

> -Chris
>
> -- 
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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