Re: [PATCH 08/17] drm/i915: Don't look at pg_dirty_rings for aliasing ppgtt

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 04:49:18PM +0300, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
> Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 06:53:41PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 07:11:25PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:06:36PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >> > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:35:18PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >> > > > We load the ppgtt ptes once per gpu reset/driver load/resume and
> >> > > > that's all that's needed. Note that this only blows up when we're
> >> > > > using the allocate_va_range funcs and not the special-purpose ones
> >> > > > used. With this change we can get rid of that duplication.
> >> > > 
> >> > > Honestly, I would prefer the test to be rewritten so that the
> >> > > information on which vm was being used was passed along and not that
> >> > > magic sprinkled in the middle of nowhere. e.g. execbuffer knows exactly
> >> > > what vm it bound the objects into, and yet towards the end we decide to
> >> > > guess again. Also, I would rather the execbuffer test be moved to
> >> > > i915_gem_context since it is scattering internal knowledge about.
> >> > 
> >> > Yeah I agree that there's more room for cleanup. I've done this minimal
> >> > patch purely to shut up the bogus WARN_ONs when I tried to unify the
> >> > gen6/7 pt alloc code in the next patch. Since it's bogus.
> >> 
> >> How about:
> >
> > Yeah, but imo there's also more. I tried to understand the gen8 legacy ctx
> > switch logic and failed, and I wasn't fully convinced that the gen7 one
> > won't WARN if we actually enable full ppgtt. Given all that I decided to
> > go with the most minimal patch and just removed the offending bogus WARN.
> > But Mika/Michel promised to hang around for eventual cleanups?
> 
> Yes. There is more to come after this series.
> I can include Chris's suggestion.

Looking at this WARN that fires continually on gen6/gen7, (it's nice to
have such a blatant WARN to explain the perf decrease), don't we need


diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
index a1a9f5dad541..006d4a2610f7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
@@ -1562,6 +1562,8 @@ int i915_ppgtt_init_hw(struct drm_device *dev)
                        ret = ppgtt->switch_mm(ppgtt, ring);
                        if (ret != 0)
                                return ret;
+
+                       ppgtt->pd_dirty_rings &= ~(1 << i);
                }
        }
 
?
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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