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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Relinquish any fence when changing cache levels
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:46:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110413204646.GL3660@viiv.ffwll.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302717671-1914-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 07:01:11PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> This is vital to maintain our contract with the hw for not using fences
> on snooped memory for older chipsets. It should have no impact
> other than clearing the fence register (and updating the fence
> bookkeeping) as any future IO access (page faults or pwrite/pread) will
> be linear and go through the cached CPU domain.

set_cache_level is rather unused on pre-snb. Can't we just hold off with
such complexity before we actually use it in e.g. the vmap code? Maybe add
a WARN_ON(gen < 6) instead?

-Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-13 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-13 12:25 [PATCH] drm/i915: Relinquish any fence when changing cache levels Chris Wilson
2011-04-13 16:36 ` Eric Anholt
2011-04-13 16:59   ` Chris Wilson
2011-04-13 18:01   ` Chris Wilson
2011-04-13 20:46     ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2011-04-13 21:42       ` Chris Wilson

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