drm/i915/gtt: Enable full-ppgtt by default everywhere
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:57:50 +0000 (10:57 +0100)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:03:59 +0000 (17:03 +0100)
commit79556df293b2efbb3ccebb6db02120d62e348b44
treed8e10e840dee6739469d82ad0b5416b87c721d1b
parentef821e3f14e868779505bf08f96afb4eade53652
drm/i915/gtt: Enable full-ppgtt by default everywhere

We should we have all the kinks worked out and full-ppgtt now works
reliably on gen7 (Ivybridge, Valleyview/Baytrail and Haswell). If we can
let userspace have full control over their own ppgtt, it makes softpinning
far more effective, in turn making GPU dispatch far more efficient by
virtue of better mm segregation.  On the other hand, switching over to a
different GTT for every client does incur noticeable overhead, but only
for very lightweight tasks.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason.ekstrand@intel.com>
Cc: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Acked-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180717095751.1034-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c