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Chris Wilson authored
If we quickly switch from writing through the GTT to a read of the physical page directly with the CPU (e.g. performing relocations through the GTT and then running the command parser), we can observe that the writes are not visible to the CPU. It is not a coherency problem, as extensive investigations with clflush have demonstrated, but a mere timing issue - we have to wait for the GTT to complete it's write before we start our read from the CPU. The issue can be illustrated in userspace with: gtt = gem_mmap__gtt(fd, handle, 0, OBJECT_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE); cpu = gem_mmap__cpu(fd, handle, 0, OBJECT_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE); gem_set_domain(fd, handle, I915_GEM_DOMAIN_GTT, I915_GEM_DOMAIN_GTT); for (i = 0; i < OBJECT_SIZE / 64; i++) { int x = 16*i + (i%16); gtt[x] = i; clflush(&cpu[x], sizeof(cpu[x])); assert(cpu[x] == i); } Experimenting with that shows that this behaviour is indeed limited to recent Atom-class hardware. Testcase: igt/gem_exec_flush/basic-batch-default-cmd #byt Signed-off-by:
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by:
Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20160818161718.27187-10-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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