From 6e672074dd1f3c105396a9d7a9bc35ea785569c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Marek=20Ol=C5=A1=C3=A1k?= Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 08:20:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] st/mesa: add environment variable pin_app_thread for faster glthread on AMD Zen Acked-by: Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer Tested-by: Marge Bot Part-of: --- src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c index 5e5eeedbf45..31b7d533952 100644 --- a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c +++ b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c @@ -192,6 +192,16 @@ util_pin_driver_threads_to_random_L3(struct pipe_context *ctx, /* Do the same for the upper level thread if there is any (e.g. glthread) */ if (upper_thread) util_pin_thread_to_L3(*upper_thread, cache, util_cpu_caps.cores_per_L3); + + /* Optionally pin the application thread to the same L3 to get maximum + * performance with glthread on AMD Zen. (this function is only called + * with glthread) This is used to estimate and remove the overhead of + * Infinity Fabric between L3 caches. + */ +#if defined(HAVE_PTHREAD) + if (debug_get_bool_option("pin_app_thread", false)) + util_pin_thread_to_L3(pthread_self(), cache, util_cpu_caps.cores_per_L3); +#endif } /* This is a helper for hardware bring-up. Don't remove. */ -- 2.30.2