Re: [PATCH 12/43] drm/i915/bdw: Don't write PDP in the legacy way when using LRCs

[Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@intel.com>]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 05:04:20PM +0100, Thomas Daniel wrote:
> From: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
> 
> This is mostly for correctness so that we know we are running the LR
> context correctly (this is, the PDPs are contained inside the context
> object).
> 
> v2: Move the check to inside the enable PPGTT function. The switch
> happens in two places: the legacy context switch (that we won't hit
> when Execlists are enabled) and the PPGTT enable, which unfortunately
> we need. This would look much nicer if the ppgtt->enable was part of
> the ring init, where it logically belongs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> index 5188936..ccd70f5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c
> @@ -852,6 +852,11 @@ static int gen8_ppgtt_enable(struct i915_hw_ppgtt *ppgtt)
>  		if (USES_FULL_PPGTT(dev))
>  			continue;
>  
> +		/* In the case of Execlists, we don't want to write the PDPs
> +		 * in the legacy way (they live inside the context now) */
> +		if (i915.enable_execlists)
> +			return 0;

This looks like it should be a continue to enable PPGTT on more rings
then the render ring?

-- 
Damien