Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915/gt: Flush xcs before tgl breadcrumbs

[Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>]

Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> writes:

> In a simple test case that writes to scratch and then busy-waits for the
> batch to be signaled, we observe that the signal is before the write is
> posted. That is bad news.
>
> Splitting the flush + write_dword into two separate flush_dw prevents
> the issue from being reproduced, we can presume the post-sync op is not
> so post-sync.
>

Only thing that is mildly surpricing is that first one doesnt
need postop write.

> Testcase: igt/gem_exec_fence/parallel
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> index d0be98b67138..a437140a987d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> @@ -5047,7 +5047,8 @@ gen12_emit_fini_breadcrumb_tail(struct i915_request *request, u32 *cs)
>  
>  static u32 *gen12_emit_fini_breadcrumb(struct i915_request *rq, u32 *cs)
>  {
> -	return gen12_emit_fini_breadcrumb_tail(rq, emit_xcs_breadcrumb(rq, cs));
> +	cs = emit_xcs_breadcrumb(rq, __gen8_emit_flush_dw(cs, 0, 0, 0));
> +	return gen12_emit_fini_breadcrumb_tail(rq, cs);
>  }
>  
>  static u32 *
> -- 
> 2.20.1