drm/radeon/kms: remove IB flushing trick.
authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:29:13 +0000 (18:29 +1000)
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:13:04 +0000 (17:13 +1000)
If there is a problem then this is hiding it, we shouldn't
ever need to flush the IB. Either the buffers are:

WB - caching just works.
WC - no need to do explicit flush, the MB + readback will do it

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ring.c

index a853261..60d1593 100644 (file)
@@ -126,32 +126,19 @@ static void radeon_ib_align(struct radeon_device *rdev, struct radeon_ib *ib)
        }
 }
 
-static void radeon_ib_cpu_flush(struct radeon_device *rdev,
-                               struct radeon_ib *ib)
-{
-       unsigned long tmp;
-       unsigned i;
-
-       /* To force CPU cache flush ugly but seems reliable */
-       for (i = 0; i < ib->length_dw; i += (rdev->cp.align_mask + 1)) {
-               tmp = readl(&ib->ptr[i]);
-       }
-}
-
 int radeon_ib_schedule(struct radeon_device *rdev, struct radeon_ib *ib)
 {
        int r = 0;
 
        mutex_lock(&rdev->ib_pool.mutex);
        radeon_ib_align(rdev, ib);
-       radeon_ib_cpu_flush(rdev, ib);
        if (!ib->length_dw || !rdev->cp.ready) {
                /* TODO: Nothings in the ib we should report. */
                mutex_unlock(&rdev->ib_pool.mutex);
                DRM_ERROR("radeon: couldn't schedule IB(%lu).\n", ib->idx);
                return -EINVAL;
        }
-       /* 64 dwords should be enought for fence too */
+       /* 64 dwords should be enough for fence too */
        r = radeon_ring_lock(rdev, 64);
        if (r) {
                DRM_ERROR("radeon: scheduling IB failled (%d).\n", r);