drm/i915/perf: lock powergating configuration to default when active
If some of the contexts submitting workloads to the GPU have been configured to shutdown slices/subslices, we might loose the NOA configurations written in the NOA muxes. One possible solution to this problem is to reprogram the NOA muxes when we switch to a new context. We initially tried this in the workaround batchbuffer but some concerns where raised about the cost of reprogramming at every context switch. This solution is also not without consequences from the userspace point of view. Reprogramming of the muxes can only happen once the powergating configuration has changed (which happens after context switch). This means for a window of time during the recording, counters recorded by the OA unit might be invalid. This requires userspace dealing with OA reports to discard the invalid values. Minimizing the reprogramming could be implemented by tracking of the last programmed configuration somewhere in GGTT and use MI_PREDICATE to discard some of the programming commands, but the command streamer would still have to parse all the MI_LRI instructions in the workaround batchbuffer. Another solution, which this change implements, is to simply disregard the user requested configuration for the period of time when i915/perf is active. On most platforms there are no issues with this apart from a performance penality for some media workloads that benefit from running on a partially powergated GPU. We already prevent RC6 from affecting the programming so it doesn't sound completely unreasonable to hold on powergating for the same reason. On Icelake however there would a functional problem if the slices not- containing the VME block were left enabled with a running media workload which explicitly disabled them. To avoid a GPU hang in this case, on Icelake we lock the enablement to only slices which contain VME blocks. Downside is that it means degraded GPU performance when OA is active but there is no known alternative solution for this. v2: Leave RPCS programming in intel_lrc.c (Lionel) v3: Update for s/union intel_sseu/struct intel_sseu/ (Lionel) More to_intel_context() (Tvrtko) s/dev_priv/i915/ (Tvrtko) Tvrtko Ursulin: v4: * Rebase for make_rpcs changes. v5: * Apply OA restriction from make_rpcs directly. v6: * Rebase for context image setup changes. v7: * Move stream assignment before metric enable. v8-9: * Rebase. v10: * Squashed with ICL support patch. Bspec: 21140 Co-developed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> # v9 Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190205095032.22673-2-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com
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