Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: set IDICOS to medium uncore resources

[Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>]

On Fri, 4 May 2012 13:40:27 -0700
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:

> On Fri,  4 May 2012 18:58:59 -0700
> Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm seeing about a 5% FPS improvement across various benchmarks on my
> > IVB i3. Rumor has it that the higher end parts show even more benefit.
> > 
> > This derives from a patch originally given to me by Bernard. The docs
> > are  confusing about the definition names (ie. medium really seems
> > like max), but it would seem it gives more cache to the GT at the
> > expense of uncore. This configuration makes the split most in favor
> > of the GT. I've not tried the other IDICOS values.
> 
> Bringing the IRC discussion here.  I think this is really at the
> expense (though not really) of the CPU, since it allows the GPU to use
> more of the shared CPU/GPU cache in the uncore.
> 
> You can fix up the #define names if you want; the MEDIUM etc may be
> from an old, incorrect doc.  They were added awhile back.
> 
> Jesse

The names match current docs. Presumably they mean something to someone.
I don't feel the need to modify them as such.

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Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center