Re: [PATCH 4/5] Align YS tile base address to 64KB

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 06:57:07PM +0100, Damien Lespiau wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:49:22AM -0700, Anuj Phogat wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Damien Lespiau
> > <damien.lespiau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 02:00:07PM -0700, Anuj Phogat wrote:
> > >> Signed-off-by: Anuj Phogat <anuj.phogat@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >>  intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c | 7 ++++++-
> > >>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c b/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c
> > >> index 7c50e26..775a9f9 100644
> > >> --- a/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c
> > >> +++ b/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c
> > >> @@ -289,8 +289,13 @@ drm_intel_gem_bo_tile_size(drm_intel_bufmgr_gem *bufmgr_gem, unsigned long size,
> > >>       if (*tiling_mode == I915_TILING_NONE)
> > >>               return size;
> > >>
> > >> +     /* Tiled surface base addresses must be tile aligned (64KB aligned
> > >> +      * for TileYS, 4KB aligned for all other tile modes).
> > >> +      */
> > >> +     if (*tiling_mode == I915_TILING_YS)
> > >> +             return ROUND_UP_TO(size, 64 * 1024);
> > >>       /* 965+ just need multiples of page size for tiling */
> > >> -     if (bufmgr_gem->gen >= 4)
> > >> +     else if (bufmgr_gem->gen >= 4)
> > >>               return ROUND_UP_TO(size, 4096);
> > >
> > > I'm confused. You're saying you want to align the address of those
> > > buffers to 64k, but here we're talking about the object size. At the
> > > moment, the kernel places buffers in the address space and it was chosen
> > > that the kernel didn't need to know about those tiling formats. So we
> > > need something else if that constraint is indeed true (could you tell
> > > us the source for this assertion? privately if needed).
> > >
> > This comment is invalid here. It was meant for surface state in Mesa.
> > I'll remove it.
> 
> Don't you have the exact same problem? how does the kernel know about
> this alignment constraint when resolving the relocation?

struct drm_i915_gem_exec_object2.alignment goes back to some gen2/3 design
ideas that (afaik at least) have never been used really but survived until
now. Fancy how we can reuse that 7 generations later ;-)

And at least on a quick readthrough the code is all still functional too.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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