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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com, Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: i915.ko WC writes are slow after ea8596bb2d8d379
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:36:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5435AE71.60304@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141008194955.GF12897@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>

On 10/08/2014 12:49 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> 
> Indeed, this appears to be the explanation. (And here I thought PAT
> superseded mtrrs - i915.ko stopped trying to use assign an mtrr for its
> GTT quite a while ago.)
> 
> Replacing the stop_machine there with on_each_cpu does the trick:
> 

It should, but there seem to be quite a few drivers which still muck
with MTRRs.  However, i915 is not one of them, it calls
io_mapping_create_wc() followed by arch_phys_wc_add(), so I'm wondering
what the heck is going on here.

> Naively I would say that we lost the wc on our ioremap.
> /sys/kernel/debug/x86/pat_memtype_list remained the same across repeated
> runs.

Could you tell me what the above looks like?

	-hpa





  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-08 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-08  9:03 i915.ko WC writes are slow after ea8596bb2d8d379 Chris Wilson
2014-10-08 10:10 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-08 19:49   ` Chris Wilson
2014-10-08 21:36     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-10-09  6:53       ` Chris Wilson
2014-10-09 12:44         ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-09 13:00           ` Chris Wilson
2014-10-09 14:46             ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-09 15:14               ` Chris Wilson
2015-11-18 14:48   ` Chris Wilson
2015-11-18 15:57     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-19  8:14       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-11-19 10:03         ` [PATCH] kernel: Remove stop_machine() Kconfig dependency Chris Wilson
2015-11-19  8:16     ` i915.ko WC writes are slow after ea8596bb2d8d379 Ingo Molnar
2014-10-08 17:47 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-09  1:45   ` Masami Hiramatsu

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