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-rw-r--r--src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_context.c42
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_context.c b/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_context.c
index 822b5a0dfef..2996a9c1e09 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_context.c
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_context.c
@@ -256,7 +256,28 @@ static struct bifrost_framebuffer
panfrost_emit_mfbd(struct panfrost_context *ctx)
{
struct bifrost_framebuffer framebuffer = {
- .tiler_meta = 0xf00000c600,
+ /* It is not yet clear what tiler_meta means or how it's
+ * calculated, but we can tell the lower 32-bits are a
+ * (monotonically increasing?) function of tile count and
+ * geometry complexity; I suspect it defines a memory size of
+ * some kind? for the tiler. It's really unclear at the
+ * moment... but to add to the confusion, the hardware is happy
+ * enough to accept a zero in this field, so we don't even have
+ * to worry about it right now.
+ *
+ * The byte (just after the 32-bit mark) is much more
+ * interesting. The higher nibble I've only ever seen as 0xF,
+ * but the lower one I've seen as 0x0 or 0xF, and it's not
+ * obvious what the difference is. But what -is- obvious is
+ * that when the lower nibble is zero, performance is severely
+ * degraded compared to when the lower nibble is set.
+ * Evidently, that nibble enables some sort of fast path,
+ * perhaps relating to caching or tile flush? Regardless, at
+ * this point there's no clear reason not to set it, aside from
+ * substantially increased memory requirements (of the misc_0
+ * buffer) */
+
+ .tiler_meta = ((uint64_t) 0xff << 32) | 0x0,
.width1 = MALI_POSITIVE(ctx->pipe_framebuffer.width),
.height1 = MALI_POSITIVE(ctx->pipe_framebuffer.height),
@@ -271,10 +292,23 @@ panfrost_emit_mfbd(struct panfrost_context *ctx)
.unknown2 = 0x1f,
- /* Presumably corresponds to unknown_address_X of SFBD */
+ /* Corresponds to unknown_address_X of SFBD */
.scratchpad = ctx->scratchpad.gpu,
.tiler_scratch_start = ctx->misc_0.gpu,
- .tiler_scratch_middle = ctx->misc_0.gpu + /*ctx->misc_0.size*/40960, /* Size depends on the size of the framebuffer and the number of vertices */
+
+ /* The constant added here is, like the lower word of
+ * tiler_meta, (loosely) another product of framebuffer size
+ * and geometry complexity. It must be sufficiently large for
+ * the tiler_meta fast path to work; if it's too small, there
+ * will be DATA_INVALID_FAULTs. Conversely, it must be less
+ * than the total size of misc_0, or else there's no room. It's
+ * possible this constant configures a partition between two
+ * parts of misc_0? We haven't investigated the functionality,
+ * as these buffers are internally used by the hardware
+ * (presumably by the tiler) but not seemingly touched by the driver
+ */
+
+ .tiler_scratch_middle = ctx->misc_0.gpu + 0xf0000,
.tiler_heap_start = ctx->tiler_heap.gpu,
.tiler_heap_end = ctx->tiler_heap.gpu + ctx->tiler_heap.size,
@@ -2696,7 +2730,7 @@ panfrost_setup_hardware(struct panfrost_context *ctx)
screen->driver->allocate_slab(screen, &ctx->varying_mem, 16384, false, 0, 0, 0);
screen->driver->allocate_slab(screen, &ctx->shaders, 4096, true, PAN_ALLOCATE_EXECUTE, 0, 0);
screen->driver->allocate_slab(screen, &ctx->tiler_heap, 32768, false, PAN_ALLOCATE_GROWABLE, 1, 128);
- screen->driver->allocate_slab(screen, &ctx->misc_0, 128, false, PAN_ALLOCATE_GROWABLE, 1, 128);
+ screen->driver->allocate_slab(screen, &ctx->misc_0, 128*128, false, PAN_ALLOCATE_GROWABLE, 1, 128);
}