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

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I'm planning to make use of it and pass alignment value for Yf/Ys
from Mesa. Thanks.

> -Daniel
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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