James Bottomley reported [1] a massive power regression, due to the enabling of semaphores by default in 3.5. A workaround for him is to again disable semaphores. And indeed, his system has a very hard time to entre rc6 with semaphores enabled.
Ben Widawsky run around with a kill-a-watt a lot and noticed: - There are indeed a few rare systems that seem to have a hard time entering rc6 when desktop-idle. - One machine, The Indestructible Toshiba regressed in this behaviour between 3.5 and 3.6 in a merge commit! So rc6 behaviour with the current setting seems to be highly timing dependent and not robust at all. - The behaviour James reported wrt semaphores seems to be a freak timing thing that only happens on his specific machine, confirming that enabling semaphores shouldn't reduce rc6 residency. Now furthermore the Google ChromeOS guys reported [2] a while ago that at least on some machines a simply a blinking cursor can keep the gpu turbo at the highest frequency. This is because the current rps limits used on snb/ivb are highly asymmetric. On the theory that gpu turbo and rc6 tuning values are related, we've tried whether the much saner looking (since much less asymmetric) rps tuning values used for hsw would also help entering rc6 more robustly. And it seems to work. v2: Testing on James Bottemly's funky machine indicates that the Haswell values are not aggressive enough. And testing from the Google ChromeOS team indicates that we actually want symmetric values for the most power savings. So let's try that. Reference[1]: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-July/025675.html Reference[2]: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2012-July/018692.html Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53393 Tested-by: Ben Widawsky <b...@bwidawsk.net> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 15 ++++----------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c index 58c07cd..314da5c 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c @@ -2441,17 +2441,10 @@ static void gen6_enable_rps(struct drm_device *dev) dev_priv->max_delay << 24 | dev_priv->min_delay << 16); - if (IS_HASWELL(dev)) { - I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_UP_THRESHOLD, 59400); - I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_DOWN_THRESHOLD, 245000); - I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_UP_EI, 66000); - I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_DOWN_EI, 350000); - } else { - I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_UP_THRESHOLD, 10000); - I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_DOWN_THRESHOLD, 1000000); - I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_UP_EI, 100000); - I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_DOWN_EI, 5000000); - } + I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_UP_THRESHOLD, 59400); + I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_DOWN_THRESHOLD, 59400); + I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_UP_EI, 66000); + I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_DOWN_EI, 350000); I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_IDLE_HYSTERSIS, 10); I915_WRITE(GEN6_RP_CONTROL, -- 1.7.10.4 _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
