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From: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: intel-gfx <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/hsw: Disable L3 caching of atomic memory operations.
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:31:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131002223147.GA6580@bwidawsk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uErnpuPgvw3smAtbpH6TvH_K8VjqS59c0rtQ+yW1yxwFw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:20:43AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net> wrote:
> > +       case I915_PARAM_HAS_ATOMICS:
> > +               value = 1;
> > +               break;
> 
> Generally when we do kernel fixes for gpu hangs like that we don't add
> parameters (would drown in them otherwise) but simply queue it up to
> -fixes and slap a cc: stable on it. Gpu hang fixes are critical enough
> imo for that treatment, even when it's for brand new userspace code.
> 
> Any specific reason why we shouldn't follow this approach here? I'd
> make the patch simpler and we could dump a bit of userspace code, too.
> -Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

They haven't yet enabled this feature in mesa, so it's not exactly
fixing a hang. It is preventing one from ever occurring. Mesa versions
built against an older libdrm will not use atomics.

-- 
Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-02 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-02 22:03 [PATCH] drm/i915/hsw: Disable L3 caching of atomic memory operations Francisco Jerez
2013-10-02 22:16 ` Ben Widawsky
2013-10-02 22:20 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-10-02 22:31   ` Francisco Jerez
2013-10-02 22:31   ` Ben Widawsky [this message]
2013-10-02 22:53   ` Francisco Jerez
2013-10-03  7:35     ` Daniel Vetter
2013-10-03  1:36   ` Eric Anholt

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