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Chris Wilson 79e6770cb1 drm/i915: Remove obsolete ringbuffer emission for gen8+
Since removing the module parameter to force selection of ringbuffer
emission for gen8, the code is defunct. Remove it.

To put the difference into perspective, a couple of microbenchmarks
(bdw i7-5557u, 20170324):
                                        ring          execlists
exec continuous nops on all rings:   1.491us            2.223us
exec sequential nops on each ring:  12.508us           53.682us
single nop + sync:                   9.272us           30.291us

vblank_mode=0 glxgears:            ~11000fps           ~9000fps

Since the earlier submission, gen8 ringbuffer submission has fallen
further and further behind in features. So while ringbuffer may hold the
throughput crown, in terms of interactive latency, execlists is much
better. Alas, we have no convenient metrics for such, other than
demonstrating things we can do with execlists but can not using
legacy ringbuffer submission.

We have made a few improvements to lowlevel execlists throughput,
and ringbuffer currently panics on boot! (bdw i7-5557u, 20171026):

                                        ring          execlists
exec continuous nops on all rings:       n/a            1.921us
exec sequential nops on each ring:       n/a           44.621us
single nop + sync:                       n/a           21.953us

vblank_mode=0 glxgears:                  n/a          ~18500fps

References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87725
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Once-upon-a-time-Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171120205504.21892-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
2017-11-20 21:54:58 +00:00
arch Merge airlied/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued 2017-11-14 07:43:00 -08:00
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Documentation drm/i915/guc: Rename i915_guc_submission.c|h to intel_guc_submission.c|h 2017-11-16 15:06:18 +00:00
drivers drm/i915: Remove obsolete ringbuffer emission for gen8+ 2017-11-20 21:54:58 +00:00
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fs Various SMB3 fixes for 4.14 and stable 2017-10-28 08:39:35 -07:00
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sound Merge branch 'linus-4.14-rc4-acp-prereq' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2017-11-14 05:53:39 +10:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update gvt-linux.git new repo place 2017-11-16 11:48:33 +08:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc7 2017-10-29 13:58:38 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.