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> Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
