AMDGPU Driver Gets Patches Enabling Two More Interrupt Rings On Vega 10

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDGPU Driver Gets Patches Enabling Two More Interrupt Rings On Vega 10

While AMD's open-source Linux driver developers have been busy on bringing up Vega 20 support as well as Picasso APUs, they aren't done yet optimizing their Vega 10 support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-More-IH-Rings

[tomtomme]

I knew it. First the hd7950, then kaveri , now Vega. All underperformed severely on Linux until they found they just forgot to fire up some parts of the chip.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I personally thought removing the requirement of Atomic Operations on Vega 20 and all the fixes landed today were more important.

[Chewi]

As the owner of a Vega 10 laptop, thank you AMD!

[Brutalix]

Aren't people jumping the gun here now... This might give performance improvements. If it's a tangible increase it's very nice but if not, people might be disappointed. A tad of common sence and not jumping the gun seems in order. Though 4.20 looks promising for AMD owners.

Kind regards
B.

[juno]

As the owner of a Vega 10 laptop, thank you AMD!

I don't think so. But TBH AMD is complicating things.

Vega10 is the codename of the (currently) biggest GPU AMD is building. It's being sold as Vega 56 and Vega 64. I don't think it has been built into any Laptop and likely won't be.
Vega 10 is also the name of a configuration of the integrated graphics in a Raven Ridge (Zen CPU + Vega GPU) APU - the Ryzen 7 2700U.

I liked the times where they had real codenames; Cayman, Tahiti, Hawaii, Bonaire, Cape Verde, Ellesmere, Fiji, Tonga, ... Now those are just the name of the generation and an arbitrary to-digit number. Polaris10, Polaris11, Polaris12, 20, 21, 22, 30, Vega10, Vega20, Navi10. How creative.

[AsuMagic]

I don't think so. But TBH AMD is complicating things.

Vega10 is the codename of the (currently) biggest GPU AMD is building. It's being sold as Vega 56 and Vega 64. I don't think it has been built into any Laptop and likely won't be.
Vega 10 is also the name of a configuration of the integrated graphics in a Raven Ridge (Zen CPU + Vega GPU) APU - the Ryzen 7 2700U.

I liked the times where they had real codenames; Cayman, Tahiti, Hawaii, Bonaire, Cape Verde, Ellesmere, Fiji, Tonga, ... Now those are just the name of the generation and an arbitrary to-digit number. Polaris10, Polaris11, Polaris12, 20, 21, 22, 30, Vega10, Vega20, Navi10. How creative.

Still less retarded than intel naming, with K, HQ, H, U, +, etc. and now no more HT on i7...

[bridgman]

I liked the times where they had real codenames; Cayman, Tahiti, Hawaii, Bonaire, Cape Verde, Ellesmere, Fiji, Tonga, ... Now those are just the name of the generation and an arbitrary to-digit number. Polaris10, Polaris11, Polaris12, 20, 21, 22, 30, Vega10, Vega20, Navi10. How creative.

We are going back to real codenames where possible (ie where it's not already too late to change), and trying to keep the old "the name vaguely suggests HW generation so it will be easier to remember in the future" model. The first new code name should be Arcturus.

EDIT - just to be clear, these code names are per CHIP not per GENERATION and are what we will use when pushing open source code to public repos. The internal project names may be different (and there's a good chance that they will continue the current naming pattern) but by using code names for public releases we should be able to avoid the overlap between chip names in the open source driver code and marketing names.

[dungeon]

Still less retarded than intel naming, with K, HQ, H, U, +, etc. and now no more HT on i7...

He, he, AMD uses various such power suffixes also , this might help to someone:



There was everything from these combinations, but still not T or S Low power Desktops

[Deathsimple]

Interesting that this got a news, but my VM work which has much more potential for performance improvements didn't

Anyway to explain things this is for recoverable page faults which is a prerequisite of HMM.

Regards,
Christian.