[PATCH] drm/i915: "Flush Me Harder" required on gen6+

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:37:07AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:48:42 +0200, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > The prep to remove the flushing list in
> > 
> > commit cc889e0f6ce6a63c62db17d702ecfed86d58083f
> > Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > Date:   Wed Jun 13 20:45:19 2012 +0200
> > 
> >     drm/i915: disable flushing_list/gpu_write_list
> > 
> > causes quite some decent regressions. We can fix this by setting the
> > CS_STALL bit to ensure that the following seqno write happens only
> > after the cache flush has completed. But only do that when the caller
> > actually wants the flush (and not also when we invalidate caches
> > before starting the next batch).
> > 
> > I've looked through all our ancient scrolls about gen6+ pipe control
> > workarounds, and this seems to be indeed a legal combination: We're
> > allowed to set the CS_STALL bit when we flush the render cache (which
> > we do).
> > 
> > While yelling at this code, also pass back the return value from
> > intel_emit_post_sync_nonzero_flush properly.
> > 
> > v2: Instead of emitting more pipe controls, set the CS_STALL bit on
> > the write flush as suggested by Chris Wilson. It seems to work, too.
> > 
> > Cc: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51436
> > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51429
> > Tested-by: Lu Hua <huax.lu at intel.com>
> > Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Tested-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Queued for -next, thanks for the review.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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