[PATCH] drm/i915: Limit the watermark to at least 8 entries on gen2/3

ville.syrjala
2014-09-05T18:54:17Z

From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>

830 is very unhappy of the watermark value is too low (indicating a very
high watermark in fact, ie. memory fetch will occur with an almost full
FIFO). Limit the watermark value to at least 8 cache lines.

That also matches the burst size we use on most platforms. BSpec seems
to indicate we should limit the watermark to 'burst size + 1'. But on
gen4 we already use a hardcoded 8 as the watermark value (as the spec
says we should), so just use 8 as the limit on gen2/3 as well.

Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
index 45f71e6..5b683e8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
@@ -1070,6 +1070,17 @@ static unsigned long intel_calculate_wm(unsigned long clock_in_khz,
wm_size = wm->max_wm;
if (wm_size <= 0)
wm_size = wm->default_wm;
+
+ /*
+ * Bspec seems to indicate that the value shouldn't be lower than
+ * 'burst size + 1'. Certainly 830 is quite unhappy with low values.
+ * Lets go for 8 which is the burst size since certain platforms
+ * already use a hardcoded 8 (which is what the spec says should be
+ * done).
+ */
+ if (wm_size <= 8)
+ wm_size = 8;
+
return wm_size;
}

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