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agp/intel: Use a write-combining map for updating PTEs
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:57:47 +0000 (11:57 +0100)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:23:07 +0000 (14:23 +0200)
commit028b9dc911d9965d87becef5a36ea0def7032535
tree75e463e8ffee14669477a56ce366280fc76d16e4
parent80c8714449037c81fb147ad74b69f7968f042db0
agp/intel: Use a write-combining map for updating PTEs

Rewriting the PTE entries using an WC mapping is roughly an order of
magnitude faster than through the uncached mapping. This makes an
observable difference on workloads that cycle through large numbers of
buffers, for example Chromium using ShmPixmaps where virtually all the
CPU time is currently spent rebinding the userptr.

v2: Limit the WC mapping to older generations as we have observed that
the TLB invalidation on SandyBridge+ is unreliable with WC updates.
See i-g-t/tests/gem_gtt_cpu_tlb

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
drivers/char/agp/intel-gtt.c