Re: Write GFX_FLSH_CNT after updating GGTT entries

Tian, Kevin
2015-11-20T09:23:15Z

> From: Ville Syrjälä [mailto:ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 6:35 PM
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 06:20:23PM +0800, Zhi Wang wrote:
> > Hi Gurus:
> > I'm curious about the register GFX_FLSH_CNT(0x101008) in
> > i915_gem_gtt.c. Does these register exist in recently generations? After
> > digging into b-spec, it looks only BXT and CHV has this register. Does
> > the desktop platform also have this register which needs to be written
> > after updating GGTT MMIOs?
> >
> > BTW: Looks windows driver haven't used this MMIO... So whose behavior is
> > the right behavior?
>
> As I understand it that register flushes the CPU GTT TLBs, and we need
> to do it because of the WC mapping we have for the GTT PTEs. If we used
> UC mapping we wouldn't need it since there's supposedly an automagic
> TLB flush that happens on PTE writes.
>
> BSpec is bad at finding some registers via bxml. Using dtsearch and
> looking for both 0x<offset> and <offset>h is the method I use to track
> such things down.
>

Curious how much gain is observed by using WC vs. using UC on GTT
entries?

Thanks
Kevin