Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: Force the CS stall for invalidate flushes

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On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:20:49AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:09:15AM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:17:00AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > In order to act as a full command barrier by itself, we need to tell the
> > > pipecontrol to actually stall the command streamer while the flush runs.
> > > We require the full command barrier before operations like
> > > MI_SET_CONTEXT, which currently rely on a prior invalidate flush.
> > > 
> > > References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83677
> > > Cc: Simon Farnsworth <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> > > index 282279b83ca4..02fb478a2867 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
> > > @@ -380,6 +380,8 @@ gen7_render_ring_flush(struct intel_engine_cs *ring,
> > >  		flags |= PIPE_CONTROL_QW_WRITE;
> > >  		flags |= PIPE_CONTROL_GLOBAL_GTT_IVB;
> > >  
> > > +		flags |= PIPE_CONTROL_STALL_AT_SCOREBOARD;
> > > +
> > 
> > Hmm. BSpec says that the render cache won't be flushed when this bit
> > is set. Is that going to cause problems for the gpu_cache_dirty cases
> > where seem to do invalidate+flush with a single PIPE_CONTROL?
> 
> I thought it was DEPTH_STALL that disabled the write flush. It is
> redundant in the case where the write flush is taking place though and
> you can do:

My bspec here concures that only the depth stall affects flushes.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
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