On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 12:02:01PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:55:44PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Since we are not concerned with userspace racing itself with set-tiling
> > (the order is indeterminant even if we take a lock), then we can safely
> > read back the single obj->tiling_mode and do the static lookup of
> > swizzle mode without having to take a lock.
> > 
> > get-tiling is reasonably frequent due to the back-channel passing around
> > of tiling parameters in DRI2/DRI3.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c | 8 ++------
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c
> > index 326de7eae101..d6acd0a27c06 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_tiling.c
> > @@ -302,10 +302,8 @@ i915_gem_get_tiling(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
> >     if (!obj)
> >             return -ENOENT;
> >  
> > -   mutex_lock(&dev->struct_mutex);
> > -
> >     args->tiling_mode = obj->tiling_mode;
> 
> READ_ONCE here. With that Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch>

obj->tiling_mode is still a bitfield. Not yet convinced of extracting
it, but avoiding the lock for get_tiling is useful.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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