Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use RCS flips on Ivybridge+

2013-08-23 Thread Stéphane Marchesin
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: > RCS flips do work on Iybridge+ so long as we can unmask the messages > through DERRMR. However, there are quite a few workarounds mentioned > regarding unmasking more than one event or triggering more than one > message through DERRMR. Those w

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use RCS flips on Ivybridge+

2013-08-20 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Chris Wilson wrote: >> The DERRMR is overwritten by each before use. I thought that was >> self-explanatory. > > The not-so-self-explanatory part is that there is a implicit > synchronisation point in userspace between switching between flips and > scanlines. I wa

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use RCS flips on Ivybridge+

2013-08-20 Thread Chris Wilson
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 01:39:02PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:31:03PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Chris Wilson > > wrote: > > > RCS flips do work on Iybridge+ so long as we can unmask the messages > > > through DERRMR. However, th

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use RCS flips on Ivybridge+

2013-08-20 Thread Chris Wilson
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:31:03PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Chris Wilson > wrote: > > RCS flips do work on Iybridge+ so long as we can unmask the messages > > through DERRMR. However, there are quite a few workarounds mentioned > > regarding unmasking more t

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use RCS flips on Ivybridge+

2013-08-20 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: > RCS flips do work on Iybridge+ so long as we can unmask the messages > through DERRMR. However, there are quite a few workarounds mentioned > regarding unmasking more than one event or triggering more than one > message through DERRMR. Those

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use RCS flips on Ivybridge+

2013-08-20 Thread Chris Wilson
RCS flips do work on Iybridge+ so long as we can unmask the messages through DERRMR. However, there are quite a few workarounds mentioned regarding unmasking more than one event or triggering more than one message through DERRMR. Those workarounds in principle prevent us from performing pipelined f