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From: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/bdw: Use timeout mode for RC6 on bdw
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:56:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140412055616.GA14982@bwidawsk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140411090038.GY9262@phenom.ffwll.local>

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:00:38AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:29:55PM +0000, O'Rourke, Tom wrote:
> > >> > Higher RC6 residency is observed using timeout mode instead of EI
> > >> > mode.  This applies to Broadwell only.
> > >> > The difference is particularly noticeable with video playback.
> > >> >
> > >> > Issue: VIZ-3778
> > >> > Change-Id: I62bb12e21caf19651034826b45cde7f73a80938d
> > >> > Signed-off-by: Tom O'Rourke <Tom.O'Rourke@intel.com>
> > >>
> > >> How recent a nightly branch have you used to obtain these results?
> > >> Chris just fixed some serious bugs in the gpu booster logic which
> > >> would have affected all intermediate workloads.
> > >> -Daniel
> > >
> > >He must not be using nightly if he has any BDW RC6 residency at all.
> > >
> > [TOR:] Ben is correct.  I was testing mostly with a kernel for Android.
> > I also tested with Ben's broadwell branch and saw similar improvement.
> 
> Ok I think it'd be good to have this when we actually merge/enable the
> final pieces of the bdw rc6 code. Can you please work together with Ben to
> make sure this patch isn't lost?
> 
> Or who is shepherding bdw rc6 nowadays?
> -Daniel

Locally, people are still using my RC6 "workaround." We're waiting on
Mika at the moment. I am going to merge this patch to my
bdw-rc6/broadwell branches.

I think it would be great to get a little more detail under what
circumstances this improves residency. We can discuss that internally.

-- 
Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-12  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-09 18:44 [PATCH] drm/i915/bdw: Use timeout mode for RC6 on bdw Tom O'Rourke
2014-04-09 20:02 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-04-09 22:36   ` Ben Widawsky
2014-04-10 20:29     ` O'Rourke, Tom
2014-04-11  9:00       ` Daniel Vetter
2014-04-12  5:56         ` Ben Widawsky [this message]
2014-04-30  5:31 ` Ben Widawsky
2014-04-30 20:34   ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2014-04-30 20:41     ` Ben Widawsky
2014-04-30 21:03       ` Imre Deak
2014-04-30 21:14         ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2014-05-01 22:35           ` Ben Widawsky
2014-05-30 23:30             ` O'Rourke, Tom
2014-06-02  8:26               ` Daniel Vetter
2014-06-02 21:51                 ` O'Rourke, Tom
2014-06-03  7:38                   ` Daniel Vetter
2014-06-09 20:50                     ` O'Rourke, Tom
2014-06-20 16:42 ` Ben Widawsky
2014-06-20 19:01   ` O'Rourke, Tom
2014-07-01  1:19     ` O'Rourke, Tom
2014-07-02 11:06       ` Jani Nikula

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