> On 17.04.2023 08:25, fei.y...@intel.com wrote:
>> From: Fei Yang <fei.y...@intel.com>
>>
>> The design is to keep Buffer Object's caching policy immutable through
>> out its life cycle. This patch ends the support for set caching ioctl
>> from MTL onward. While doing that we also set BO's to be 1-way
>> coherent at creation time because GPU is no longer automatically
>> snooping CPU cache.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fei Yang <fei.y...@intel.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c | 3 +++
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c | 9 ++++++++-
>> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
>> index d2d5a24301b2..bb3575b1479f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_domain.c
>> @@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ int i915_gem_set_caching_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev,
>> void *data,
>> if (IS_DGFX(i915))
>> return -ENODEV;
>>
>> + if (GRAPHICS_VER_FULL(i915) >= IP_VER(12, 70))
>> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>> +
>> switch (args->caching) {
>> case I915_CACHING_NONE:
>> level = I915_CACHE_NONE;
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
>> index 37d1efcd3ca6..e602c323896b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shmem.c
>> @@ -601,7 +601,14 @@ static int shmem_object_init(struct intel_memory_region
>> *mem,
>> obj->write_domain = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>> obj->read_domains = I915_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU;
>>
>> - if (HAS_LLC(i915))
>> + /*
>> + * MTL doesn't snooping CPU cache by default for GPU access (namely
>
> Sounds strange, "doesn't snoop" ?
Will update.
>> + * 1-way coherency). However some UMD's are currently depending on
>> + * that. Make 1-way coherent the default setting for MTL. A follow
>> + * up patch will extend the GEM_CREATE uAPI to allow UMD's specify
>> + * caching mode at BO creation time
>
> Shouldn't such comment be a part of patch description? or at least removed by
> follow-up patch.
Will update.
-Fei
> Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.ha...@intel.com>
>
> Regards
> Andrzej
>
>
>> + */
>> + if (HAS_LLC(i915) || (GRAPHICS_VER_FULL(i915) >= IP_VER(12, 70)))
>> /* On some devices, we can have the GPU use the LLC (the CPU
>> * cache) for about a 10% performance improvement
>> * compared to uncached. Graphics requests other than
