Re: [PATCH v8 03/10] drm/i915/ttm: only trust snooping for dgfx when deciding default cache_level

[Thomas Hellström]

On 6/21/22 22:00, Robert Beckett wrote:
> By default i915_ttm_cache_level() decides I915_CACHE_LLC if HAS_SNOOP.
> This is divergent from existing backends code which only considers
> HAS_LLC.
> Testing shows that trusting snooping on gen5- is unreliable and bsw via
> ggtt mappings, so limit DGFX for now and maintain previous behaviour.
Yeah, IIRC Matthew mentioned that HAS_SNOOP() can be overridden in 
various ways, but not on DGFX, (at least not for DG1). So this looks 
correct to me.
> Signed-off-by: Robert Beckett <bob.beckett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c
> index 4c1de0b4a10f..40249fa28a7a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_ttm_move.c
> @@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ static enum i915_cache_level
>   i915_ttm_cache_level(struct drm_i915_private *i915, struct ttm_resource *res,
>   		     struct ttm_tt *ttm)
>   {
> -	return ((HAS_LLC(i915) || HAS_SNOOP(i915)) &&
> +	bool can_snoop = HAS_SNOOP(i915) && IS_DGFX(i915);
> +
> +	return ((HAS_LLC(i915) || can_snoop) &&
>   		!i915_ttm_gtt_binds_lmem(res) &&
>   		ttm->caching == ttm_cached) ? I915_CACHE_LLC :
>   		I915_CACHE_NONE;