Re: [PATCH 5/8] drm/i915/mtl: end support for set caching ioctl

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On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 04:00:55PM -0700, fei.yang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Fei Yang <fei.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The design is to keep Buffer Object's caching policy immutable through
> out its life cycle. This patch ends the support for set caching ioctl
> from MTL onward. While doing that we also set BO's to be 1-way coherent
> at creation time because GPU is no longer automatically snooping CPU
> cache. For UMD's need to fine tune the caching policy for BO's, a follow
> up patch will extend the GEM_CREATE uAPI to allow UMD's specify caching
> mode at BO creation time.

Nitpick:  I don't think "UMD" is a term that anyone really uses outside
of Intel.  It's probably better to just say "userspace" instead of
"UMD" since that's more accurate anyway.


Matt

> 
> Signed-off-by: Fei Yang <fei.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c | 3 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c  | 9 ++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> index d2d5a24301b2..bb3575b1479f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
> @@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ int i915_gem_set_caching_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
>  	if (IS_DGFX(i915))
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
> +	if (GRAPHICS_VER_FULL(i915) >= IP_VER(12, 70))
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +
>  	switch (args->caching) {
>  	case I915_CACHING_NONE:
>  		level = I915_CACHE_NONE;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
> index 37d1efcd3ca6..cad4a6017f4b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
> @@ -601,7 +601,14 @@ static int shmem_object_init(struct intel_memory_region *mem,
>  	obj->write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>  	obj->read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>  
> -	if (HAS_LLC(i915))
> +	/*
> +	 * MTL doesn't snoop CPU cache by default for GPU access (namely
> +	 * 1-way coherency). However some UMD's are currently depending on
> +	 * that. Make 1-way coherent the default setting for MTL. A follow
> +	 * up patch will extend the GEM_CREATE uAPI to allow UMD's specify
> +	 * caching mode at BO creation time
> +	 */
> +	if (HAS_LLC(i915) || (GRAPHICS_VER_FULL(i915) >= IP_VER(12, 70)))
>  		/* On some devices, we can have the GPU use the LLC (the CPU
>  		 * cache) for about a 10% performance improvement
>  		 * compared to uncached.  Graphics requests other than
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

-- 
Matt Roper
Graphics Software Engineer
Linux GPU Platform Enablement
Intel Corporation



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