On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 03:35:24PM +0530, akash.goel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Akash Goel <akash.goel@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> When the object is moved out of CPU read domain, the cachelines
> are not invalidated immediately. The invalidation is deferred till
> next time the object is brought back into CPU read domain.
> But the invalidation is done unconditionally, i.e. even for the case
> where the cachelines were flushed previously, when the object moved out
> of CPU write domain. This is avoidable and would lead to some optimization.
> Though this is not a hypothetical case, but is unlikely to occur often.
> The aim is to detect changes to the backing storage whilst the
> data is potentially in the CPU cache, and only clflush in those case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 1 +
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index df9316f..fedb71d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -2098,6 +2098,7 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_object {
> unsigned long gt_ro:1;
> unsigned int cache_level:3;
> unsigned int cache_dirty:1;
> + unsigned int cache_clean:1;
So now we have cache_dirty and cache_clean which seems redundant,
except somehow cache_dirty != !cache_clean?
>
> unsigned int frontbuffer_bits:INTEL_FRONTBUFFER_BITS;
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index 19c282b..a13ffd4 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -3552,6 +3552,7 @@ i915_gem_clflush_object(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
> trace_i915_gem_object_clflush(obj);
> drm_clflush_sg(obj->pages);
> obj->cache_dirty = false;
> + obj->cache_clean = true;
>
> return true;
> }
> @@ -3982,7 +3983,13 @@ i915_gem_object_set_to_cpu_domain(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj, bool write)
>
> /* Flush the CPU cache if it's still invalid. */
> if ((obj->base.read_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU) == 0) {
> - i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, false);
> + /* Invalidation not needed as there should not be any data in
> + * CPU cache lines for this object, since clflush would have
> + * happened when the object last moved out of CPU write domain.
> + */
> + if (!obj->cache_clean)
> + i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, false);
> + obj->cache_clean = false;
>
> obj->base.read_domains |= I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
> }
> --
> 1.9.2
>
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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC
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