From: Christoph Hellwig
> Sent: 04 May 2020 17:03
>
> On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 09:20:19PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > Err, why does i915 implements its own uncached memcpy instead of relying
> > > on core functionality to start with?
> >
> > What is this core functionality that provides
On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 09:20:19PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Err, why does i915 implements its own uncached memcpy instead of relying
> > on core functionality to start with?
>
> What is this core functionality that provides movntqda?
A sensible name might be memcpy_uncached or
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:30 PM Chris Wilson wrote:
>
> Quoting Jason A. Donenfeld (2020-04-30 23:10:16)
> > Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which
> > have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the
> > pattern is to check for may_use_simd()
Quoting Jason A. Donenfeld (2020-04-30 23:10:16)
> Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which
> have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the
> pattern is to check for may_use_simd() and then fallback to using
> something slower in the unlikely
Quoting Christoph Hellwig (2020-05-01 19:07:31)
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 04:10:16PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which
> > have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the
> > pattern is to check for
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 12:07 PM Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 04:10:16PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which
> > have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the
> > pattern is to
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 4:42 AM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
wrote:
>Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Thanks.
>
> May I ask how large the memcpy can be? I'm asking in case it is large
> and an explicit rescheduling point might be needed.
Yea I was worried about that too. I'm not an i915
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 04:10:16PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which
> have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the
> pattern is to check for may_use_simd() and then fallback to using
> something
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
> Sent: 01 May 2020 11:42
> On 2020-04-30 16:10:16 [-0600], Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which
> > have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the
> > pattern is to check for
On 2020-04-30 16:10:16 [-0600], Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which
> have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the
> pattern is to check for may_use_simd() and then fallback to using
> something slower in the
Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which
have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the
pattern is to check for may_use_simd() and then fallback to using
something slower in the unlikely case SIMD registers aren't available.
So, this patch
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