On 2/25/2015 10:55 AM, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
> Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 04:22:33PM +0000, Michel Thierry wrote:
>>> This patchset addresses comments from v5 by Mika, specially some rename changes
>>> touched several patches.
>>>
>>> For GEN8, it has also been extended to work in logical ring submission (lrc)
>>> mode, as it will be the preferred mode of operation.
>>> I also tried to update the lrc code at the same time the ppgtt refactoring
>>> occurred, leaving only one patch that is exclusively for lrc.
>>>
>>> I'm also now including the required patches for PPGTT with 48b addressing.
>>> In order expand the GPU address space, a 4th level translation is added, the
>>> Page Map Level 4 (PML4). This PML4 has 256 PML4 Entries (PML4E), PML4[0-255],
>>> each pointing to a PDP.
>>>
>>> For now, this feature will only be available in BDW and GEN9, in LRC submission
>>> mode (execlists) and when i915.enable_ppgtt=3 is set.
>>> Also note that this expanded address space is only available for full PPGTT,
>>> aliasing PPGTT remains 32b.
>>>
>>> This list can be seen in 3 parts:
>>> [01-10] Add page table allocation for GEN6/GEN7
>>> [11-20] Enable dynamic allocation in GEN8,for both legacy and
>>> execlist submission modes.
>>> [21-32] PML4 support in BDW and GEN9+.
>>>
>>> Ben Widawsky (26):
>>>    drm/i915: page table abstractions
>>>    drm/i915: Complete page table structures
>>>    drm/i915: Create page table allocators
>>>    drm/i915: Track GEN6 page table usage
>>>    drm/i915: Extract context switch skip and pd load logic
>>>    drm/i915: Track page table reload need
>>>    drm/i915: Initialize all contexts
>>>    drm/i915: Finish gen6/7 dynamic page table allocation
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Use dynamic allocation idioms on free
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: page directories rework allocation
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: pagetable allocation rework
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Update pdp switch and point unused PDPs to scratch page
>>>    drm/i915: num_pd_pages/num_pd_entries isn't useful
>>>    drm/i915: Extract PPGTT param from page_directory alloc
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Split out mappings
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: begin bitmap tracking
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Dynamic page table allocations
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Make pdp allocation more dynamic
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Abstract PDP usage
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Add dynamic page trace events
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Add ppgtt info for dynamic pages
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: implement alloc/free for 4lvl
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Add 4 level switching infrastructure
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Generalize PTE writing for GEN8 PPGTT
>>>    drm/i915: Plumb sg_iter through va allocation ->maps
>>>    drm/i915: Expand error state's address width to 64b
>>>
>>> Michel Thierry (6):
>>>    drm/i915: Plumb drm_device through page tables operations
>>>    drm/i915: Add dynamic page trace events
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Support dynamic pdp updates in lrc mode
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Support 64 bit PPGTT in lrc mode
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Add 4 level support in insert_entries and clear_range
>>>    drm/i915/bdw: Flip the 48b switch
>> When just a few patches changed (which I suspect is the case here) please
>> don't resend the entire series, but only resend the individual patches
>> in-reply-to their earlier versions.
>>
>> Resending the entire series too often tends to split up the discussions
>> between multiple threads, so should be used cautiously. My approach is
>> that I don't resend the entire series except when all the patches have
>> changed. And I only resend when the review round has reached a conclusion.
>> While the review is ongoing doing incremental updates of the series is imo
>> much better.
>>
>> But when resending the entire series, please start a new thread. Otherwise
>> it again starts to become unclear which versions of which patches go
>> together.
>>
>> And a quick aside if you fear that a patch causes subsequent patches to no
>> longer apply without a rebase: I can deal with a lot of small conflicts
>> quickly when merging. And if that doesn't cut it I'll just ask for a
>> resend when needed.
>>
> I have been asking alot of stuff that triggers a rebasing. I suggest we
> should keep the 48b items in a separate series until we have most of the
> dynamic page table series sorted out.
>
> - Mika
Ok, I'll keep dynamic page allocation and 48b separated.

-Michel