Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk> writes: > Quoting Chris Wilson (2018-05-11 13:11:47) >> The original switch to use CSB from the HWSP was plagued by the effort >> of read ordering on VT-d; we would read the WRITE pointer from the HWSP >> before it had completed writing the CSB contents. The mystery comes down >> to the lack of rmb() for correct ordering with respect to the writes >> from HW, and with that resolved we can remove the VT-d special casing. > > Mika's been able to reproduce the VT-d issue and is soak testing this > fix, so I'll leave that until he's had a chance to confirm it survives. > In the meantime, I think we are reasonably happy this is the right fix > for Cannonlake and beyond, so I've pushed the first two patches. >
My kbl was quite sensitive to this, sometimes failing to even boot without the vtd backoff. Now after weekend of gem_ctx_switch and gem_exec_whisper I am confident for, Tested-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuopp...@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuopp...@linux.intel.com> _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
