Re: [PATCH 1/4] drm/i915/bdw: Implement non-coherent ctx w/a

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On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 02:33:48PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 07:59:10PM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > Implements a required workaround whose implications aren't entirely clear to me
> > from the description. In particular I do not know if this effects legacy
> > contexts, execlists, or both.
> > 
> > I couldn't find a real workaround name, so I made up:
> > WaHdcCtxNonCoherent
> 
> I don't think we want to make up w/a names. Might cause someone to
> conclude that the w/a is no longer needed if they can't find the
> name in the w/a database or bspec. So maybe just add a small quote from
> bspec, or leave it without explanation forcing people to check bspec
> if they want to find out why it's there.
> 
> I suppose one option would be to add a private namespace for our made
> up w/a names. But I don't really see a point in making up w/a names
> if we don't have a some documentation telling people what those names
> actually mean.
> 
> So with the made up w/a name removed:
> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If you want to believe my version, it's called WaForceContextSaveRestoreNonCoherent

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2015-January/059086.html

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Damien
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