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drm/i915/display: Drop unnecessary frontbuffer flushes
authorJosé Roberto de Souza <jose.souza@intel.com>
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:14:03 +0000 (17:14 -0700)
committerJosé Roberto de Souza <jose.souza@intel.com>
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 22:04:44 +0000 (15:04 -0700)
commitc933573a39aa553001539f6fdc88201da6fdfe0a
treeb093c81ce6ac681b0793501e1bf60beb6fb6c3b1
parentd4a4e89ab8a93a8952da2ec366a82bace9ef39a7
drm/i915/display: Drop unnecessary frontbuffer flushes

This unnecessary flushes are hurting power-savings are it causes
features like PSR, FBC and DRRS to disable it self to handle
frontbuffer rendering, below some explanation of why each removed
call is not necessary.

The flush in intel_prepare_plane_fb() is not required as framebuffer
will be flipped and power-saving features do the proper flip handling
in hardware.

intel_find_initial_plane_obj() flush is not required because it is
only executed during driver load and at this point the power-saving
features are not even enabled.

And the last one intelfb_create(), is also not required as at this
point the fbdev was just allocated, userspace will draw on
it what will trigger frontbuffer invalidates and flushes later on.

Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Gwan-gyeong Mun <gwan-gyeong.mun@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210930001409.254817-3-jose.souza@intel.com
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c