[PATCH] Lower threshold for pixel doubling.

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So, what's the conclusion?


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Stuart Abercrombie <sabercrombie at google.com
> wrote:

> This is with the patch.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > >
>> >>>
>> >>> > _______________________________________________
>> >>> > Intel-gfx mailing list
>> >>> > Intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
>> >>> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Daniel Vetter
>> >>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
>> >>> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Vetter
>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
>> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
>>
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