Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915/cmdparser: Limit clflush to active cachelines

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On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 01:19:01PM +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.
> >
> > v2: Use ptr_mask_bits() to make Mika happy
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
> > index 21b1cd917d81..787980d52272 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
> > @@ -1330,8 +1330,10 @@ int intel_engine_cmd_parser(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
> >  		ret = -EINVAL;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	if (ret == 0 && needs_clflush_after)
> > -		drm_clflush_virt_range(shadow_batch_obj->mm.mapping, batch_len);
> > +	if (ret == 0 && needs_clflush_after) {
> > +		void *ptr = ptr_mask_bits(shadow_batch_obj->mm.mapping);
> > +		drm_clflush_virt_range(ptr, (void *)cmd - ptr);
> 
> Your ptr is page aligned, and the cmd is pointing to a BATCH_BUFFER_END
> right at the next cacheline boundary. Apparently in this case you would
> get flush only to the previous cacheline and not the one containg the
> BB_END?

No, I thought cmd was always after. That upsets cmd >= batch_end....
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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