[PATCH] Lower threshold for pixel doubling.

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On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Stuart Abercrombie
<sabercrombie at google.com> wrote:
> Maybe I missed something, but I didn't see a response to this.  Can we get
> this fix in?

Sorry for the delay, I've lost track of this. Can you please boot with
drm.debug=0xe and attach the full dmesg (with or without your patch)?
-Daniel

>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Stuart Abercrombie
> <sabercrombie at google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Without this change I saw PIPE_FIFO_UNDERRUN_STATUS set in PIPEASTAT,
>> which I took to indicate an underrun problem.
>>
>> Here's what I found with other modes on this monitor:
>>
>> 1920x1200 works with pixel doubling enabled. Pixel clock 193.2 MHz.
>> 2048x1152 works with pixel doubling enabled. Pixel clock 198.0 MHz.
>> 1600x1200 works with pixel doubling disabled. Pixel clock 162.0 MHz.
>> 2048x1280 fails with pixel doubling disabled. PIxel clock 174.2 MHz..
>>
>> Based on this, it seems the threshold needs to be be between 162.0MHz and
>> 174.2MHz, whereas currently it's at 180MHz.  The change puts it at 170MHz.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:39:07AM -0700, Stuart Abercrombie wrote:
>>> > Any comments?
>>> >
>>> > Without this, plugging one of the older Chromebook models into a Dell
>>> > U3011
>>> > monitor produces a garbled display at the default 2048x1280 resolution.
>>> >
>>> > The original threshold was apparently fairly arbitrary:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~anholt/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=8fcf9a81179ee8577ddab5e904c58fbfd14cf59c
>>>
>>> Do you see any pipe underruns without this patch? There are some not-yet
>>> implemented tricks we should be pulling around re-splitting DSP_ARB fifo
>>> entries, which tend to totally kill high-res modes.
>>> -Daniel
>>>
>>> > .
>>> >
>>> > Stuart
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Stuart Abercrombie <
>>> > sabercrombie at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > 90% of core speed (=180MHz dot clock) is too high for 2048x1280 to
>>> > > get
>>> > > pixel doubling on Pineview, which it needs to avoid underruns, so
>>> > > lower this to 85%.
>>> > >
>>> > > Signed-off-by: Stuart Abercrombie <sabercrombie at chromium.org>
>>> > > ---
>>> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 4 ++--
>>> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>> > >
>>> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
>>> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
>>> > > index efe8299..9c924e9 100644
>>> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
>>> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
>>> > > @@ -4564,14 +4564,14 @@ static void i9xx_set_pipeconf(struct
>>> > > intel_crtc
>>> > > *intel_crtc)
>>> > >         pipeconf = I915_READ(PIPECONF(intel_crtc->pipe));
>>> > >
>>> > >         if (intel_crtc->pipe == 0 && INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen < 4) {
>>> > > -               /* Enable pixel doubling when the dot clock is > 90%
>>> > > of
>>> > > the (display)
>>> > > +               /* Enable pixel doubling when the dot clock is > 85%
>>> > > of
>>> > > the (display)
>>> > >                  * core speed.
>>> > >                  *
>>> > >                  * XXX: No double-wide on 915GM pipe B. Is that the
>>> > > only
>>> > > reason for the
>>> > >                  * pipe == 0 check?
>>> > >                  */
>>> > >                 if (intel_crtc->config.requested_mode.clock >
>>> > > -                   dev_priv->display.get_display_clock_speed(dev) *
>>> > > 9 /
>>> > > 10)
>>> > > +                   dev_priv->display.get_display_clock_speed(dev) *
>>> > > 17 /
>>> > > 20)
>>> > >                         pipeconf |= PIPECONF_DOUBLE_WIDE;
>>> > >                 else
>>> > >                         pipeconf &= ~PIPECONF_DOUBLE_WIDE;
>>> > > --
>>> > > 1.8.2.1
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel Vetter
>>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
>>> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
>>
>>
>



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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch


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