From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Widawsky Subject: [PATCH 1/5] drm/i915: Use topdown allocation for PPGTT PDEs on gen6/7 Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 10:55:58 -0700 Message-ID: <1399139762-20728-2-git-send-email-benjamin.widawsky@intel.com> References: <1399139762-20728-1-git-send-email-benjamin.widawsky@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.bwidawsk.net (bwidawsk.net [166.78.191.112]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2306E6A6 for ; Sat, 3 May 2014 10:56:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1399139762-20728-1-git-send-email-benjamin.widawsky@intel.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "Intel-gfx" To: Intel GFX Cc: Ben Widawsky , Ben Widawsky List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org It was always the intention to do the topdown allocation for context objects (Chris' idea originally). Unfortunately, I never managed to land the patch, but someone else did, so now we can use it. As a reminder, hardware contexts never need to be in the precious GTT aperture space - which is what is what happens with the normal bottom up allocation we do today. Doing a top down allocation increases the odds that the HW contexts can get out of the way, especially with per FD contexts as is done in full PPGTT Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c index 9e19735..4083eab 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c @@ -1849,8 +1849,7 @@ alloc: &ppgtt->node, GEN6_PD_SIZE, GEN6_PD_ALIGN, 0, 0, dev_priv->gtt.base.total, - DRM_MM_SEARCH_DEFAULT, - DRM_MM_CREATE_DEFAULT); + DRM_MM_TOPDOWN); if (ret == -ENOSPC && !retried) { ret = i915_gem_evict_something(dev, &dev_priv->gtt.base, GEN6_PD_SIZE, GEN6_PD_ALIGN, -- 1.9.2