On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:19:17PM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> With the ring mask we now have an easy way to know the number of rings
> in the system, and therefore can accurately predict the number of dwords
> to emit for semaphore signalling. This was not possible (easily)
> previously.
>
> There should be no functional impact, simply fewer instructions emitted.
>
> While we're here, simply do the round up to 2 instead of the fancier
> rounding we did before, which rounding up per mbox, ie 4. This also
> allows us to drop the unnecessary MI_NOOP, so not really 4, 3.
>
> v2: Use 3 dwords instead of 4 (Ville)
> Do the proper calculation to get the number of dwords to emit (Ville)
> Conditionally set .sync_to when semaphores are enabled (Ville)
>
> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 119 +++++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> index 06d849a..bf061dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> @@ -637,24 +637,19 @@ static void render_ring_cleanup(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring)
> static int gen6_signal(struct intel_ring_buffer *signaller,
> unsigned int num_dwords)
> {
> +#define MBOX_UPDATE_DWORDS 3
> struct drm_device *dev = signaller->dev;
> struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
> struct intel_ring_buffer *useless;
> - int i, ret;
> + int i, ret, num_rings;
>
> - /* NB: In order to be able to do semaphore MBOX updates for varying
> - * number of rings, it's easiest if we round up each individual update
> - * to a multiple of 2 (since ring updates must always be a multiple of
> - * 2) even though the actual update only requires 3 dwords.
> - */
> -#define MBOX_UPDATE_DWORDS 4
> - if (i915_semaphore_is_enabled(dev))
> - num_dwords += ((I915_NUM_RINGS-1) * MBOX_UPDATE_DWORDS);
> + num_rings = hweight_long(INTEL_INFO(dev)->ring_mask);
hweight32() would be enough.
<snip>
--
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC
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