Re: [igt PATCH] igt/pm_rps: Remove remaining assert on CUR <= MAX

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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 08:57:21AM -0700, Jeff McGee wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:55:42PM +0300, Arkadiusz Hiler wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 06:15:52PM +0300, Arkadiusz Hiler wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:54:54PM +0000, Szwichtenberg, Radoslaw wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 12:44 -0700, jeff.mcgee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > From: Jeff McGee <jeff.mcgee@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > 
> > > > > This completes the change started by:
> > > > > 
> > > > > commit 39cccab83b7c515a2b57abe679a8cb304c8933ef
> > > > > Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Date:   Fri May 19 09:41:40 2017 +0100
> > > > > 
> > > > >     igt/pm_rps: Allow CUR to be greater than MAX (overclocking)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff McGee <jeff.mcgee@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Radoslaw Szwichtenberg <radoslaw.szwichtenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Pushed. Thanks for the patch and the review.
> > > 
> > > Excerpt from CONTRIBUTING:
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Please use --subject-prefix="PATCH i-g-t" so that i-g-t patches are easily
> > > identified in the massive amount mails on intel-gfx. To ensure this is always
> > > done, autogen.sh will run:
> > > 
> > >   git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH i-g-t"
> > > 
> > > on its first invocation.
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > Lack of proper prefix breaks filtering / patchwork and makes changes
> > > harder to track, and effectilvely it takes longer to get the patch in.
> > > 
> > > The autogen.sh thing is a recent addition.
> > 
> > Hey Jeff,
> > 
> > The change has been reverted.
> > 
> > At first the it looked like a sensible folloup to previous changes and
> > it even got r-bed, but as pointed out by Michal, this constraint still
> > should hold, as it's checked in a non-boost scenario.
> > 
> > It hides bug introduced into the kernel by the commit:
> > "drm/i915: Define a separate variable and control for RPS waitboost frequency"
> > 
> > for GuC submission path, as the check below always holds true as we have
> > waiters all the time:
> >      if (client_boost || any_waiters) max = hw_max;
> > 
> > What was the point of this change?
> > Were you aware of the fail in the guc_submission scenario?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers,
> > Arek
> 
> Hi Arek. Yes, this was prompted by a regression of this subtest in Yocto
> which uses GuC submission. I root caused it to this same i915 commit
> from Chris but incorrectly thought that the new "policy" was that sysfs
> max freq could be ignored in pretty much any situation. I understand now
> that it should be ignored in only boost and real user wait situations
> (not those triggered by GuC). So I do agree with this revert.

Hey,

Thank you for the explanation. I see where to confusion issued from -
the change seemed to make sense on it's own and to be just a simple
follow up to the previous patch.

> Is there an i915 fix coming soon? Chris?

I think it's under the review on the ML already:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/163146/

-- 
Cheers,
Arek

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