Dave Emett writes: > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 17:22, Dave Emett wrote: >> >> > + * The caches (L1T, slice, and L2T) will be flushed before the job >> > + * executes. The TLB writes are guaranteed to have been flushed by >> >> I would say before *each* job executes, as the caches are flushed >> before both bin and render. >> I wouldn't say "the caches" as not all of the V3D caches are flushed >> before executing a control list. In particular, the VCD cache is not >> cleared by the kernel driver (not even sure if there is a register >> interface to do this); it is expected that the control list will do >> this itself (using the CLEAR_VCD_CACHE instruction). >> On 3.3 and earlier there is a separate L2C for instructions/uniforms >> and a GCA. These do need to be flushed, and it looks like they are, so >> they should be mentioned here. > > Correction: on *3.2* and earlier there is a separate L2C for > instructions/uniforms. On 3.3 and earlier there is a GCA. > > It looks like we're currently unconditionally writing the L2C clear > registers. We should really only be doing this on 3.2 and earlier. OK, I've pushed the timeline name and tracing to drm-misc-next, and I'll resend the rest with more comments and the L2C change and outside-in invalidation once I'm far enough into this CTS run that I'm confident.