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Commit 6d2cb5aa authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915/execlists: Read the context-status buffer from the HWSP



The engine provides a mirror of the CSB in the HWSP. If we use the
cacheable reads from the HWSP, we can shave off a few mmio reads per
context-switch interrupt (which are quite frequent!). Just removing a
couple of mmio is not enough to actually reduce any latency, but a small
reduction in overall cpu usage.

Much appreciation for Ben dropping the bombshell that the CSB was in the
HWSP and for Michel in digging out the details.

v2: Don't be lazy, add the defines for the indices.
v3: Include the HWSP in debugfs/i915_engine_info
v4: Check for GVT-g, it currently depends on intercepting CSB mmio
v5: Fixup GVT-g mmio path
v6: Disable HWSP if VT-d is active as the iommu adds unpredictable
memory latency. (Mika)
v7: Also markup the CSB read with READ_ONCE() as it may still be an mmio
read and we want to stop the compiler from issuing a later (v.slow) reload.

Suggested-by: default avatarBen Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Cc: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichel Thierry <michel.thierry@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170913133534.26927-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk


Reviewed-by: default avatarMika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
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