[linux-yocto] [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915/bxt: Fix inadvertent CPU snooping due to incorrect MOCS config

[Tuomas Katila]

From: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>

Cherry-picked from drm-intel tree

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 at intel.com>
CC: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao at intel.com>
CC: Valtteri Rantala <valtteri.rantala at intel.com>
CC: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen at intel.com>
CC: Michael T Frederick <michael.t.frederick at intel.com>
CC: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
CC: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
Acked-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao at intel.com>
Tested-by: Rong R Yang <rong.r.yang at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1467380406-11954-3-git-send-email-imre.deak@intel.com
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_mocs.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_mocs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_mocs.c
index f391ad6..c047d68 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_mocs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_mocs.c
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ static const struct drm_i915_mocs_entry broxton_mocs_table[] = {
 	  .l3cc_value =    L3_ESC(0) | L3_SCC(0) | L3_CACHEABILITY(L3_WB),
 	},
 	{
-	  /* 0x0000003b */
-	  .control_value = LE_CACHEABILITY(LE_WB) |
+	  /* 0x00000039 */
+	  .control_value = LE_CACHEABILITY(LE_UC) |
 			   LE_TGT_CACHE(LE_TC_LLC_ELLC) |
 			   LE_LRUM(3) | LE_AOM(0) | LE_RSC(0) | LE_SCC(0) |
 			   LE_PFM(0) | LE_SCF(0),
-- 
2.7.4

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