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Setting a write-back cache policy in the MOCS entry definition also implies snooping, which has a considerable overhead. This is unexpected for a few reasons: - From user-space's point of view since it didn't want a coherent surface (it didn't set the buffer as such via the set caching IOCTL). - There is a separate MOCS entry field for snooping (which we never set). - This MOCS table is about caching in (e)LLC and there is no (e)LLC on BXT. There is a separate table for L3 cache control. Considering the above the current behavior of snooping looks like an unintentional side-effect of the WB setting. Changing it to be LLC-UC gets rid of the snooping without any ill-effects. For a coherent surface the application would use a separate MOCS entry at index 1 and call the set caching IOCTL to setup the PTE entries for the corresponding buffer to be snooped. In the future we could also add a new MOCS entry for coherent surfaces. This resulted in 70% improvement in synthetic texturing benchmarks. Kudos to Valtteri Rantala, Eero Tamminen and Michael T Frederick and Ville who helped to narrow the source of problem to the kernel and to the snooping behaviour in particular. With a follow-up change to adjust the 3rd entry value igt/gem_mocs_settings is passing after this change. v2: - Rebase on v2 of patch 1/2. v3: - Set the entry as LLC uncached instead of PTE-passthrough. This way we also keep snooping disabled, but we also make the cacheability/ coherency setting indepent of the PTE which is managed by the kernel. (Chris) CC: Rong R Yang <rong.r.yang@intel.com> CC: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com> CC: Valtteri Rantala <valtteri.rantala@intel.com> CC: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen@intel.com> CC: Michael T Frederick <michael.t.frederick@intel.com> CC: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> CC: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Acked-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com> Tested-by: Rong R Yang <rong.r.yang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1467380406-11954-3-git-send-email-imre.deak@intel.com |
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