TTM placement & caching issue/questions

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Thu Sep 4 17:59:58 EST 2014


On 04.09.2014 16:59, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 04.09.2014 16:54, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 16:19 +0900, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>>> +#else /* CONFIG_X86 */
>>>> +int ttm_tt_set_placement_caching(struct ttm_tt *ttm, uint32_t
>>> *placement)
>>>> +{
>>>> +     if (*placement & (TTM_PL_TT | TTM_PL_FLAG_SYSTEM)) {
>>>> +             ttm->caching_state = tt_cached;
>>>> +             *placement &= ~TTM_PL_MASK_CACHING;
>>>> +             *placement |= TTM_PL_FLAG_CACHED;
>>>
>>> NAK, this will break AGP on PowerMacs.
>>
>>   ... which doesn't work reliably anyway with DRI2 :-)
>
> Define 'not reliably'. I have uptimes of weeks, and I'm pretty sure I'm
> not alone, at least with AGP 1x it seems to work quite well for most
> people. So I don't see the justification for intentionally breaking it
> completely for all of us.

Even more so because PCI GART is unusably slow in general.


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