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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Disable writeback by default on ppc
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:15:47 +1100
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To: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 11:43 -0200, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 08:29 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 18:57 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >
> >> Weird.  I wonder if there is an issue with cache snoops on PPC.  We
> >> currently use the gart in cached mode (GPU snoops CPU cache) with
> >> cached pages.  I wonder if we need to use uncached pages on PPC.
> >
> > There is no such issue and no known bugs with DMA writes on those
> > PCIe host bridges (and they do get hammered pretty bad here).
> >
> > This needs further investigation by the lab/hw guys to find out what's
> > actually happening on the bus and the host bridge.
> >
> > Thadeu, Kleber: Jerome suggested writing a test case in userspace that
> > continuously writes to a spare scratch register (thus triggering the
> > corresponding writeback DMA) and checks the memory location to compare
> > the writeback value (using a debugfs file for example, or mmap).
> >
> 
> I can look into that.

Any news ?

Ben.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kleber
> 
> > Can you guys do something like that ? Then we need the analyzer on
> > and/or the lab guys to look at the fabric trace & PHB trace.
> >
> > Ben.
> >
> >
> 
>