Commit cbb83bb7 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drm/i915: Use MLC (l3$) for context objects



commit 4615d4c9 upstream.

Enabling context support increases SwapBuffers latency by about 20%
(measured on an i7-3720qm). We can offset that loss slightly by enabling
faster caching for the contexts. As they are not backed by any
particular cache (such as the sampler or render caches) our only option
is to select the generic mid-level cache. This reduces the latency of
the swap by about 5%.

Oddly this effect can be observed running smokin-guns on IVB at
1280x1024:
Using BLT copies for swaps: 151.67 fps
Using Render copies for swaps (unpatched):  141.70 fps
With contexts disabled: 150.23 fps
With contexts in L3$: 150.77 fps

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent b578b3a8
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