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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: Avoid using mappable space for relocation processing through the CPU
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:34:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111129153441.GC5667@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322579560-15548-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:12:40PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> We try to avoid writing the relocations through the uncached GTT, if the
> buffer is currently in the CPU write domain and so will be flushed out to
> main memory afterwards anyway. Also on SandyBridge we can safely write
> to the pages in cacheable memory, so long as the buffer is LLC mapped.
> In either of these caches, we therefore do not need to force the
> reallocation of the buffer into the mappable region of the GTT, reducing
> the aperture pressure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

The error_state capture currently relies on us pinning buffers as mappable
when they contain relocations (and userspace always submitting a
batchbuffers containing relocations). You break that guarantee without
fixing up the error capture code. Otherwise I like this.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-29 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-29 15:12 [PATCH] drm/i915: Avoid using mappable space for relocation processing through the CPU Chris Wilson
2011-11-29 15:34 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2011-11-29 16:48   ` Chris Wilson
2011-11-29 17:03     ` Daniel Vetter
2011-11-29 17:15       ` Chris Wilson
2011-11-29 17:17       ` Daniel Vetter
2011-11-29 17:21         ` Daniel Vetter
2011-11-29 19:22 ` Daniel Vetter
2011-11-29 21:32 ` Ben Widawsky
     [not found] <id:1322579560-15548-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
2011-12-04 12:26 ` Chris Wilson
2011-12-05 10:41   ` Daniel Vetter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-26  8:10 Daniel Vetter
2012-03-26  8:32 ` Chris Wilson
2012-03-27 11:17   ` Daniel Vetter

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