drm/i915: Increase GuC log buffer size to reduce flush interrupts
authorAkash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:24:38 +0000 (21:54 +0530)
committerTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:34:23 +0000 (09:34 +0100)
commit72c0bc66ca57d1f88df1d330a84c3e362be53af3
tree4b7c2b44bbd90664d6d7c5125f0741773cb4c538
parent6941f3c9ce4a86fdcc25a9af924e32c4b77cae96
drm/i915: Increase GuC log buffer size to reduce flush interrupts

In cases where GuC generate logs at a very high rate, correspondingly
the rate of flush interrupts is also very high.
So far total 8 pages were allocated for storing both ISR & DPC logs.
As per the half-full draining protocol followed by GuC, by doubling
the number of pages, the frequency of flush interrupts can be cut down
to almost half, which then helps in reducing the logging overhead.
So now allocating 8 pages apiece for ISR & DPC logs.
This also helps in reducing the output log file size, apart from
reducing the flush interrupt count. With the original settings,
44 KB was needed for one snapshot. With modified settings, 76 KB is
needed for a snapshot which will be equivalent to 2 snapshots of the
original setting. So 12KB saving, every 88 KB, over the original setting.

Suggested-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_fwif.h