[Intel-gfx] [RFC] Hack to avoid C-state reduction during graphics activity.

2010-11-01 Thread Eric Anholt
This is a series I came up with as a result of KS discussions. The plan was to pin the CPU C state to keep the GPU going as fast as possible while it was active, since there's some relation between the two (we don't know for sure yet, per chipset, whether it's due to latency of DMA writes having

Re: [Intel-gfx] [RFC] Hack to avoid C-state reduction during graphics activity.

2010-11-01 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
Out of curiousity, what happened to ACPI_BM_BREAK_EN here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30364 On my box, that register is (according to setpci) 0x00, but I'm testing on an ICH9M and I don't seem to be affected anyway. --Andy On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Eric Anholt

Re: [Intel-gfx] [RFC] Hack to avoid C-state reduction during graphics activity.

2010-11-01 Thread Eric Anholt
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 17:00:46 -0400, Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu wrote: Out of curiousity, what happened to ACPI_BM_BREAK_EN here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30364 On my box, that register is (according to setpci) 0x00, but I'm testing on an ICH9M and I don't seem to be