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| -rw-r--r-- | src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_bufmgr.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_bufmgr.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_bufmgr.c index e9e4d3b9884..82b9ae032aa 100644 --- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_bufmgr.c +++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_bufmgr.c @@ -813,6 +813,28 @@ brw_bo_map_wc(struct brw_context *brw, struct brw_bo *bo, unsigned flags) return bo->map_wc; } +/** + * Perform an uncached mapping via the GTT. + * + * Write access through the GTT is not quite fully coherent. On low power + * systems especially, like modern Atoms, we can observe reads from RAM before + * the write via GTT has landed. A write memory barrier that flushes the Write + * Combining Buffer (i.e. sfence/mfence) is not sufficient to order the later + * read after the write as the GTT write suffers a small delay through the GTT + * indirection. The kernel uses an uncached mmio read to ensure the GTT write + * is ordered with reads (either by the GPU, WB or WC) and unconditionally + * flushes prior to execbuf submission. However, if we are not informing the + * kernel about our GTT writes, it will not flush before earlier access, such + * as when using the cmdparser. Similarly, we need to be careful if we should + * ever issue a CPU read immediately following a GTT write. + * + * Telling the kernel about write access also has one more important + * side-effect. Upon receiving notification about the write, it cancels any + * scanout buffering for FBC/PSR and friends. Later FBC/PSR is then flushed by + * either SW_FINISH or DIRTYFB. The presumption is that we never write to the + * actual scanout via a mmaping, only to a backbuffer and so all the FBC/PSR + * tracking is handled on the buffer exchange instead. + */ static void * brw_bo_map_gtt(struct brw_context *brw, struct brw_bo *bo, unsigned flags) { |