drm/i915: Update rules for reading cache lines through the LLC
The LLC is a fun device. The cache is a distinct functional block within the SA that arbitrates access from both the CPU and GPU cores. As such all writes to memory land first in the LLC before further action is taken. For example, an uncached write from either the CPU or GPU will then proceed to memory and evict the cacheline from the LLC. This means that a read from the LLC always returns the correct information even if the PTE bit in the GPU differs from the PAT bit in the CPU. For the older snooping architecture on non-LLC, the fundamental principle still holds except that some coordination is required between the CPU and GPU to explicitly perform the snooping (which is handled by our request tracking). The upshot of this is that we know that we can issue a read from either LLC devices or snoopable memory and trust the contents of the cache - i.e. we can forgo a clflush before a read in these circumstances. Writing to memory from the CPU is a little more tricky as we have to consider that the scanout does not read from the CPU cache at all, but from main memory. So we have to currently treat all requests to write to uncached memory as having to be flushed to main memory for coherency with all consumers. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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