Bug 104100

Summary: Nearly 10% performance drop in SynMark CSCloth from "i965: Emit CS stall before MEDIA_VFE_STATE"
Product: Mesa Reporter: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen>
Component: Drivers/DRI/i965Assignee: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Intel 3D Bugs Mailing List <intel-3d-bugs>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium Keywords: bisected, regression
Version: git   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Eero Tamminen 2017-12-05 10:56:25 UTC 
Following commit drops performance in SynMark CSCloth test, as expected:
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commit 55a97db52347f62111a24715078c6035380d3e19
Author:     Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Oct 31 09:57:54 2017 -0700
Commit:     Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
CommitDate: Mon Dec 4 10:02:46 2017 -0800

    i965: Emit CS stall before MEDIA_VFE_STATE.
    
    This fixes hangs on GFXBench 5's Aztec Ruins benchmark.
    
    Unfortunately, it regresses OglCSCloth performance by about 10%. There
    are some ideas for fixing that.
    
    The Vulkan driver already emits this stall.
    
    Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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The drop is:
* 8-9% on SKL GT4e
* 5-6% on KBL GT3e
* 3-4% on SKL & KBL GT2
* within (largish) variance on BDW GT2 & GT3

On HSW GT it would seem to actually improve perf marginally.

Latter is interesting because Kenneth's trial fix for the performance regression (verified to fix it):
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~kwg/mesa/commit/?h=vfe-stall-3&id=ab9bff0ac43f0d878106ba124e84edca9b359c8a

Is according to Kenneth causing problems on HSW.  Maybe it could be applied only on newer GENs?
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