On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 06:44:49PM -0800, Kenneth Graunke wrote: > This is an important optimization for avoiding read-after-write (RAW) > stalls in the HiZ buffer. Certain workloads would run very slowly with > HiZ enabled, but run much faster with the "hiz=false" driconf option. > With this patch, they run at full speed even with HiZ. > > Improves performance in OglVSInstancing by 3.2x on Broadwell GT3e > (Iris Pro 6200). > > Thanks to Jesse Barnes for finding this missing bit! > Thanks to Chris Wilson for helping me find where to set it. > > Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) > > Here's an alternate patch which implements the workaround in the kernel > instead of Mesa. It's probably better to do it there, since the kernel > does it on Haswell already. > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c > index dabc1d8..23020d6 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c > @@ -796,6 +796,16 @@ static int bdw_init_workarounds(struct intel_engine_cs *ring) > HDC_DONOT_FETCH_MEM_WHEN_MASKED | > (IS_BDW_GT3(dev) ? HDC_FENCE_DEST_SLM_DISABLE : 0)); > > + /* From the Haswell PRM, Command Reference: Registers, CACHE_MODE_0: > + * "The Hierarchical Z RAW Stall Optimization allows non-overlapping > + * polygons in the same 8x4 pixel/sample area to be processed without > + * stalling waiting for the earlier ones to write to Hierarchical Z > + * buffer." > + * > + * This optimization is off by default for Broadwell; turn it on. > + */ > + WA_CLR_BIT_MASKED(CACHE_MODE_0_GEN7, HIZ_RAW_STALL_OPT_DISABLE); > + > /* Wa4x4STCOptimizationDisable:bdw */ > WA_SET_BIT_MASKED(CACHE_MODE_1, > GEN8_4x4_STC_OPTIMIZATION_DISABLE); > @@ -836,6 +846,11 @@ static int chv_init_workarounds(struct intel_engine_cs *ring) > HDC_FORCE_NON_COHERENT | > HDC_DONOT_FETCH_MEM_WHEN_MASKED); > > + /* According to the CACHE_MODE_0 default value documentation, some > + * CHV platforms disable this optimization by default. Turn it on. > + */ > + WA_CLR_BIT_MASKED(CACHE_MODE_0_GEN7, HIZ_RAW_STALL_OPT_DISABLE); > + > /* Improve HiZ throughput on CHV. */ > WA_SET_BIT_MASKED(HIZ_CHICKEN, CHV_HZ_8X8_MODE_IN_1X); > I think you should do this as two separate patches, 1 per platform. For the BSW patch (given that I had the same functionality in the kernel patch I asked you to look at ;-) and FWIW, Jordan has numbers on BSW B-step with my kernel patch which we can use for the commit): Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I haven't looked at Broadwell docs, so I'll let someone else take care of that. I don't know if I agree with Chris that we should call these in the workaround section, but whatever. init_clock_gating is equally sucky. _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
