[PATCH] drm/i915: Avoid using mappable space for relocation processing through the CPU

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:12:40PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> We try to avoid writing the relocations through the uncached GTT, if the
> buffer is currently in the CPU write domain and so will be flushed out to
> main memory afterwards anyway. Also on SandyBridge we can safely write
> to the pages in cacheable memory, so long as the buffer is LLC mapped.
> In either of these caches, we therefore do not need to force the
> reallocation of the buffer into the mappable region of the GTT, reducing
> the aperture pressure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

With the improved error_state capture code this is
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
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