tree 65f1aad33967bf222f5d62f2ff28f766e7f7562c
parent 0fc9f5996340a637665ccb4faa69aab498dc4067
author Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@intel.com> 1381176948 -0300
committer Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> 1381402024 +0200

drm/i915: Use the real cpu max frequency for ring scaling

The policy's max frequency is not equal to the CPU's max frequency. The
ring frequency is derived from the CPU frequency, and not the policy
frequency.

One example of how this may differ through sysfs. If the sysfs max
frequency is modified, that will be used for the max ring frequency
calculation.
(/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq). As far as I
know, no current governor uses anything but max as the default, but in
theory, they could. Similarly distributions might set policy as part of
their init process.

It's ideal to use the real frequency because when we're currently scaled
up on the GPU. In this case we likely want to race to idle, and using a
less than max ring frequency is non-optimal for this situation.

AFAIK, this patch should have no impact on a majority of people.

This behavior hasn't been changed since it was first introduced:
commit 23b2f8bb92feb83127679c53633def32d3108e70
Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date:   Tue Jun 28 13:04:16 2011 -0700

    drm/i915: load a ring frequency scaling table v3

CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>