Re: [PATCH v6 00/32] PPGTT dynamic page allocations and 48b addressing

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On 2/25/2015 10:55 AM, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> writes:

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 04:22:33PM +0000, Michel Thierry wrote:
This patchset addresses comments from v5 by Mika, specially some rename changes
touched several patches.

For GEN8, it has also been extended to work in logical ring submission (lrc)
mode, as it will be the preferred mode of operation.
I also tried to update the lrc code at the same time the ppgtt refactoring
occurred, leaving only one patch that is exclusively for lrc.

I'm also now including the required patches for PPGTT with 48b addressing.
In order expand the GPU address space, a 4th level translation is added, the
Page Map Level 4 (PML4). This PML4 has 256 PML4 Entries (PML4E), PML4[0-255],
each pointing to a PDP.

For now, this feature will only be available in BDW and GEN9, in LRC submission
mode (execlists) and when i915.enable_ppgtt=3 is set.
Also note that this expanded address space is only available for full PPGTT,
aliasing PPGTT remains 32b.

This list can be seen in 3 parts:
[01-10] Add page table allocation for GEN6/GEN7
[11-20] Enable dynamic allocation in GEN8,for both legacy and
execlist submission modes.
[21-32] PML4 support in BDW and GEN9+.

Ben Widawsky (26):
   drm/i915: page table abstractions
   drm/i915: Complete page table structures
   drm/i915: Create page table allocators
   drm/i915: Track GEN6 page table usage
   drm/i915: Extract context switch skip and pd load logic
   drm/i915: Track page table reload need
   drm/i915: Initialize all contexts
   drm/i915: Finish gen6/7 dynamic page table allocation
   drm/i915/bdw: Use dynamic allocation idioms on free
   drm/i915/bdw: page directories rework allocation
   drm/i915/bdw: pagetable allocation rework
   drm/i915/bdw: Update pdp switch and point unused PDPs to scratch page
   drm/i915: num_pd_pages/num_pd_entries isn't useful
   drm/i915: Extract PPGTT param from page_directory alloc
   drm/i915/bdw: Split out mappings
   drm/i915/bdw: begin bitmap tracking
   drm/i915/bdw: Dynamic page table allocations
   drm/i915/bdw: Make pdp allocation more dynamic
   drm/i915/bdw: Abstract PDP usage
   drm/i915/bdw: Add dynamic page trace events
   drm/i915/bdw: Add ppgtt info for dynamic pages
   drm/i915/bdw: implement alloc/free for 4lvl
   drm/i915/bdw: Add 4 level switching infrastructure
   drm/i915/bdw: Generalize PTE writing for GEN8 PPGTT
   drm/i915: Plumb sg_iter through va allocation ->maps
   drm/i915: Expand error state's address width to 64b

Michel Thierry (6):
   drm/i915: Plumb drm_device through page tables operations
   drm/i915: Add dynamic page trace events
   drm/i915/bdw: Support dynamic pdp updates in lrc mode
   drm/i915/bdw: Support 64 bit PPGTT in lrc mode
   drm/i915/bdw: Add 4 level support in insert_entries and clear_range
   drm/i915/bdw: Flip the 48b switch
When just a few patches changed (which I suspect is the case here) please
don't resend the entire series, but only resend the individual patches
in-reply-to their earlier versions.

Resending the entire series too often tends to split up the discussions
between multiple threads, so should be used cautiously. My approach is
that I don't resend the entire series except when all the patches have
changed. And I only resend when the review round has reached a conclusion.
While the review is ongoing doing incremental updates of the series is imo
much better.

But when resending the entire series, please start a new thread. Otherwise
it again starts to become unclear which versions of which patches go
together.

And a quick aside if you fear that a patch causes subsequent patches to no
longer apply without a rebase: I can deal with a lot of small conflicts
quickly when merging. And if that doesn't cut it I'll just ask for a
resend when needed.

I have been asking alot of stuff that triggers a rebasing. I suggest we
should keep the 48b items in a separate series until we have most of the
dynamic page table series sorted out.

- Mika
Ok, I'll keep dynamic page allocation and 48b separated.

-Michel

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