On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 03:35:24PM +0530, akash.g...@intel.com wrote:
> From: Akash Goel <akash.g...@intel.com>
> 
> When the object is moved out of CPU read domain, the cachelines
> are not invalidated immediately. The invalidation is deferred till
> next time the object is brought back into CPU read domain.
> But the invalidation is done unconditionally, i.e. even for the case
> where the cachelines were flushed previously, when the object moved out
> of CPU write domain. This is avoidable and would lead to some optimization.
> Though this is not a hypothetical case, but is unlikely to occur often.
> The aim is to detect changes to the backing storage whilst the
> data is potentially in the CPU cache, and only clflush in those case.
 
Testcase: igt/gem_concurrent_blit 
Testcase: igt/benchmarks/gem_set_domain
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.g...@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index df9316f..fedb71d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -2098,6 +2098,7 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_object {
>       unsigned long gt_ro:1;
>       unsigned int cache_level:3;
>       unsigned int cache_dirty:1;
> +     unsigned int cache_clean:1;
>  
>       unsigned int frontbuffer_bits:INTEL_FRONTBUFFER_BITS;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index 19c282b..a13ffd4 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -3552,6 +3552,7 @@ i915_gem_clflush_object(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
>       trace_i915_gem_object_clflush(obj);
>       drm_clflush_sg(obj->pages);
>       obj->cache_dirty = false;
> +     obj->cache_clean = true;
>  
>       return true;
>  }
> @@ -3982,7 +3983,13 @@ i915_gem_object_set_to_cpu_domain(struct 
> drm_i915_gem_object *obj, bool write)
>  
>       /* Flush the CPU cache if it's still invalid. */
>       if ((obj->base.read_domains & I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU) == 0) {
> -             i915_gem_clflush_object(obj, false);
> +             /* Invalidation not needed as there should not be any data in
> +              * CPU cache lines for this object, since clflush would have
> +              * happened when the object last moved out of CPU write domain.
> +              */

/* If an object is moved out of the CPU domain following a CPU write
 * and before a GPU or GTT write, we will clflush it out of the CPU cache,
 * and mark the cache as clean. As the object has not been accessed on the CPU
 * since (i.e. the CPU cache is still clean and it is out of the CPU domain),
 * we know that no CPU cache line contains stale data and so we can skip
 * invalidating the CPU cache in preparing to read from the object.
 */

Marginally more verbose in stating the sequence of events for which we
can ignore the clflush invalidate.

Please Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com> as I trust his
criticisms here.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
_______________________________________________
Intel-gfx mailing list
Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx

Reply via email to