Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] drm/i915: Amalgamate flushing of display objects

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Quoting Yaroslav Shabalin (2017-09-12 23:11:03)
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to report a problem which I believe is connected to changes
> introduced in this patch (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/
> 2017-February/120777.html). Specifically the problem is: screen freezes for 0.5
> - 5 seconds (mostly for 2-3 seconds) when PSR is enabled (i915.enable_psr=1
> kernel boot option). Freezes are more frequent with rich, dynamic screen
> content. The most reliable way to reproduce it, I discovered so far, is to
> start Gnome "Disk Usage Analyzer", analyze some catalog and move mouse pointer
> over color rectangles for a while. Usually that way I get 3-5 freezes in a
> minute. During normal PC usage freezes are happening less frequently, but still
> annoyingly. For the first time this problem appeared after update to kernel
> 4.12 and still there in recent 4.13 too.
> I've looked into it a little and seems that mentioned patch is the one that
> brought it in. Git bisect indicates it as the first bad commit. After realizing
> that I tried to partly revert changes in the patch and found that following
> change:
> 
>         /* Treat this as an end-of-frame, like intel_user_framebuffer_dirty() */
> -       if (obj->cache_dirty || obj->base.write_domain == I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU) {
> -               i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, true);
> -               intel_fb_obj_flush(obj, false, ORIGIN_DIRTYFB);
> -       }
> +       __i915_gem_object_flush_to_display(obj);
> +       intel_fb_obj_flush(obj, false, ORIGIN_DIRTYFB);
> 
> when reverted solves the problem completely. One of the main difference is that in old version intel_fb_obj_flush was called conditionally and now it is called every time. So I surrounded the call with "if" just to check and it worked:

Honestly, that doesn't seem like causation for the PSR failure.
-Chris
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