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    drm/i915/gtt: drop the page table optimisation · 0abb33bf
    Matthew Auld authored
    We skip filling out the pt with scratch entries if the va range covers
    the entire pt, since we later have to fill it with the PTEs for the
    object pages anyway. However this might leave open a small window where
    the PTEs don't point to anything valid for the HW to consume.
    
    When for example using 2M GTT pages this fill_px() showed up as being
    quite significant in perf measurements, and ends up being completely
    wasted since we ignore the pt and just use the pde directly.
    
    Anyway, currently we have our PTE construction split between alloc and
    insert, which is probably slightly iffy nowadays, since the alloc
    doesn't actually allocate anything anymore, instead it just sets up the
    page directories and points the PTEs at the scratch page. Later when we
    do the insert step we re-program the PTEs again. Better might be to
    squash the alloc and insert into a single step, then bringing back this
    optimisation(along with some others) should be possible.
    
    Fixes: 14826673
    
     ("drm/i915: Only initialize partially filled pagetables")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
    Cc: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com>
    Cc: Chris Wilson <chris.p.wilson@intel.com>
    Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.15+
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210713130431.2392740-1-matthew.auld@intel.com
    (cherry picked from commit 8f88ca76
    
    )
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
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