[PATCH 4/5] drm/i915: Use eLLC/LLC by default when available

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I don't have a strong opinion on iris x crw and you know that I like
to split different things in different functions, however in this case
I think either iris or crw are still hsw
so if it is possible to get  dev_priv->ellc_size inside hsw_pte_encode
somehow I in favor of not creating another function for iris...
otherwise, fell free to use:
Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 08:17:09PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:02:06AM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
>> > DRI clients really should be using MOCS to get fine grained streaming
>> > cache controls. With that note, I *hope* that this patch doesn't improve
>> > performance overwhelmingly, because if it does - it means there is a
>> > problem elsewhere.
>> >
>> > In any case, the kernel, and old userspace should get some benefit from
>> > this, so let's do it. eLLC is always a good default, and really not
>> > using it is the special case for MOCS.
>> >
>> > References: http://www.intel.com/newsroom/kits/restricted/ha$well!/pdfs/4th_Gen_Intel_Core_PressBriefing_5-29.pdf (page 57)
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net>
>>
>> Iris is the marketing name and likely to stick around for a bit (like HD
>> Graphics), I'd vote to use the codename for this thing here, i.e. crw.
>> -Daniel
>>
> I think we've agreed on IRC to leave this as is?
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