From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Widawsky Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Remove the MI_FLUSH_ENABLE setting. Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:32:39 -0800 Message-ID: <4F1B2EF7.5000801@bwidawsk.net> References: <1326999006-15100-1-git-send-email-eric@anholt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cloud01.chad-versace.us (184-106-247-128.static.cloud-ips.com [184.106.247.128]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF939E744 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:32:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1326999006-15100-1-git-send-email-eric@anholt.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Eric Anholt , Daniel Vetter Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On 01/19/2012 10:50 AM, Eric Anholt wrote: > We have always been using the wrong bit -- it's bit 12. However, the > bit also doesn't do anything -- hardware has always accepted the > MI_FLUSH command even when it was specced not to. > > Given that there is only one MI_FLUSH emitted in all of the driver > stack on gen6+ (in i965_video.c of the 2d driver, and it should be > using other code to do its flush instead), just remove the MI_FLUSH > enable instead of trying to fix it. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 2 -- > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c > index 2df35e3..d21346b 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c > @@ -389,8 +389,6 @@ static int init_render_ring(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring) > > if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen > 3) { > int mode = VS_TIMER_DISPATCH << 16 | VS_TIMER_DISPATCH; > - if (IS_GEN6(dev) || IS_GEN7(dev)) > - mode |= MI_FLUSH_ENABLE << 16 | MI_FLUSH_ENABLE; > I915_WRITE(MI_MODE, mode); > if (IS_GEN7(dev)) > I915_WRITE(GFX_MODE_GEN7, I'd like to see a tested-by on this with old userspace before pulling this in. IFF someone does that, r-b me. Patch 2/2 I still have some gripe with as detailed in that thread. ~Ben