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The discovery with trying to enable full-ppgtt was that we were completely failing to the load both the mm and context following the reset. Although we were performing mmio to set the PP_DIR (per-process GTT) and CCID (context), these were taking no effect (the assumption was that this would trigger reload of the context and restore the page tables). It was not until we performed the LRI + MI_SET_CONTEXT in a following context switch would anything occur. Since we are then required to reset the context image and PP_DIR using CS commands, we place those commands into every batch. The hardware should recognise the no-ops and eliminate the expensive context loads, but we still have to pay the cost of using cross-powerwell register writes. In practice, this has no effect on actual context switch times, and only adds a few hundred nanoseconds to no-op switches. We can improve the latter by eliminating the w/a around known no-op switches, but there is an ulterior motive to keeping them. Always emitting the context switch at the beginning of the request (and relying on HW to skip unneeded switches) does have one key advantage. Should we implement request reordering on Haswell, we will not know in advance what the previous executing context was on the GPU and so we would not be able to elide the MI_SET_CONTEXT commands ourselves and always have to emit them. Having our hand forced now actually prepares us for later. Now since that context and mm follow the request, we no longer (and not for a long time since requests took over!) require a trace point to tell when we write the switch into the ring, since it is always. (This is even more important when you remember that simply writing into the ring bears no relation to the current mm.) v2: Sandybridge has to agree to use LRI as well. Testcase: igt/drv_selftests/live_hangcheck Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180611110845.31890-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk |
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Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.