On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:50:03AM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:12:43PM -0700, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> > Haswell significantly improved the performance of sampler_c messages,
> > but the optimization appears to be off by default.  Later platforms
> > remove this bit, and apparently always enable the optimization.
> > 
> > Improves performance in "Counter Strike: Global Offensive" by 18%
> > at default settings on Iris Pro.  No Piglit regressions.
> 
> Nice. We need more bits like this ;)
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenn...@whitecape.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h | 1 +
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> > index 77fce96..340821a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
> > @@ -5952,6 +5952,7 @@ enum punit_power_well {
> >  #define  HSW_ROW_CHICKEN3_L3_GLOBAL_ATOMICS_DISABLE    (1 << 6)
> >  
> >  #define HALF_SLICE_CHICKEN3                0xe184
> > +#define   HSW_SAMPLE_C_PERFORMANCE (1<<9)
> >  #define   GEN8_CENTROID_PIXEL_OPT_DIS      (1<<8)
> >  #define   GEN8_SAMPLER_POWER_BYPASS_DIS    (1<<1)
> >  
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> > index 7a69eba..50c72a7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c
> > @@ -5736,6 +5736,10 @@ static void haswell_init_clock_gating(struct 
> > drm_device *dev)
> >     I915_WRITE(GEN7_GT_MODE,
> >                GEN6_WIZ_HASHING_MASK | GEN6_WIZ_HASHING_16x4);
> >  
> > +   /* Make sample_c messages faster. */
> 
> I found a name for it in the w/a database.
> 
> WaSampleCChickenBitEnable:hsw
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com>

Oh actually it says palette won't work when this bit is on. I'm assuming
that's the texture palette. Do we have any use of that anywhere?

> 
> > +   I915_WRITE(HALF_SLICE_CHICKEN3,
> > +              _MASKED_BIT_ENABLE(HSW_SAMPLE_C_PERFORMANCE));
> > +
> >     /* WaSwitchSolVfFArbitrationPriority:hsw */
> >     I915_WRITE(GAM_ECOCHK, I915_READ(GAM_ECOCHK) | HSW_ECOCHK_ARB_PRIO_SOL);
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.1.2
> > 
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> -- 
> Ville Syrjälä
> Intel OTC

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC
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