Hi, Please also CC me to the whole set, as opposed to just one patch of the set. And so in the future. Thanks! -- Regards, Luben On 2023-09-26 16:43, Luben Tuikov wrote: > Hi, > > On 2023-09-24 18:43, Danilo Krummrich wrote: >> Currently, job flow control is implemented simply by limiting the amount >> of jobs in flight. Therefore, a scheduler is initialized with a >> submission limit that corresponds to a certain amount of jobs. > > "certain"? How about this instead: > " ... that corresponds to the number of jobs which can be sent > to the hardware."? > >> >> This implies that for each job drivers need to account for the maximum > ^, > Please add a comma after "job". > >> job size possible in order to not overflow the ring buffer. > > Well, different hardware designs would implement this differently. > Ideally, you only want pointers into the ring buffer, and then > the hardware consumes as much as it can. But this is a moot point > and it's always a good idea to have a "job size" hint from the client. > So this is a good patch. > > Ideally, you want to say that the hardware needs to be able to > accommodate the number of jobs which can fit in the hardware > queue times the largest job. This is a waste of resources > however, and it is better to give a hint as to the size of a job, > by the client. If the hardware can peek and understand dependencies, > on top of knowing the "size of the job", it can be an extremely > efficient scheduler. > >> >> However, there are drivers, such as Nouveau, where the job size has a >> rather large range. For such drivers it can easily happen that job >> submissions not even filling the ring by 1% can block subsequent >> submissions, which, in the worst case, can lead to the ring run dry. >> >> In order to overcome this issue, allow for tracking the actual job size >> instead of the amount job jobs. Therefore, add a field to track a job's > > "the amount job jobs." --> "the number of jobs." > >> submission units, which represents the amount of units a job contributes >> to the scheduler's submission limit. > > Yeah, that's a good thing. > > I suppose that drivers which don't support this, would just use "1" to achieve > the same behaviour as before. > >> >> Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> This patch is based on Matt's scheduler work [1]. >> >> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20230919050155.2647172-1-matthew.brost@xxxxxxxxx/ >> --- >> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_job.c | 2 +- >> drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem_submit.c | 2 +- >> drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c | 2 +- >> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c | 2 +- >> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c | 2 +- >> drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c | 2 +- >> .../gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler_trace.h | 2 +- >> drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c | 5 +- >> drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 81 +++++++++++++------ >> drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_gem.c | 2 +- >> include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h | 18 +++-- >> 11 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_job.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_job.c >> index 78476bc75b4e..d54daaf64bf1 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_job.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_job.c >> @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ int amdgpu_job_alloc(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_vm *vm, >> if (!entity) >> return 0; >> >> - return drm_sched_job_init(&(*job)->base, entity, owner); >> + return drm_sched_job_init(&(*job)->base, entity, 1, owner); >> } >> >> int amdgpu_job_alloc_with_ib(struct amdgpu_device *adev, >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem_submit.c >> index 45403ea38906..74a446711207 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem_submit.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem_submit.c >> @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ int etnaviv_ioctl_gem_submit(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, >> >> ret = drm_sched_job_init(&submit->sched_job, >> &ctx->sched_entity[args->pipe], >> - submit->ctx); >> + 1, submit->ctx); >> if (ret) >> goto err_submit_put; >> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c >> index 50c2075228aa..5dc6678e1eb9 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_sched.c >> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ int lima_sched_task_init(struct lima_sched_task *task, >> for (i = 0; i < num_bos; i++) >> drm_gem_object_get(&bos[i]->base.base); >> >> - err = drm_sched_job_init(&task->base, &context->base, vm); >> + err = drm_sched_job_init(&task->base, &context->base, 1, vm); >> if (err) { >> kfree(task->bos); >> return err; >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c >> index 3f1aa4de3b87..6d230c38e4f5 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c >> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static struct msm_gem_submit *submit_create(struct drm_device *dev, >> return ERR_PTR(ret); >> } >> >> - ret = drm_sched_job_init(&submit->base, queue->entity, queue); >> + ret = drm_sched_job_init(&submit->base, queue->entity, 1, queue); >> if (ret) { >> kfree(submit->hw_fence); >> kfree(submit); >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c >> index f26a814a9920..e991426d86e4 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c >> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ nouveau_job_init(struct nouveau_job *job, >> >> } >> >> - ret = drm_sched_job_init(&job->base, &entity->base, NULL); >> + ret = drm_sched_job_init(&job->base, &entity->base, 1, NULL); >> if (ret) >> goto err_free_chains; >> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c >> index a2ab99698ca8..d5e777deee5c 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c >> @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static int panfrost_ioctl_submit(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, >> >> ret = drm_sched_job_init(&job->base, >> &file_priv->sched_entity[slot], >> - NULL); >> + 1, NULL); >> if (ret) >> goto out_put_job; >> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler_trace.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler_trace.h >> index 3143ecaaff86..2e4ffdecc5dc 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler_trace.h >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/gpu_scheduler_trace.h >> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(drm_sched_job, >> __assign_str(name, sched_job->sched->name); >> __entry->job_count = spsc_queue_count(&entity->job_queue); >> __entry->hw_job_count = atomic_read( >> - &sched_job->sched->hw_rq_count); >> + &sched_job->sched->submission_count); >> ), >> TP_printk("entity=%p, id=%llu, fence=%p, ring=%s, job count:%u, hw job count:%d", >> __entry->entity, __entry->id, >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c >> index 437c50867c99..6395090d5784 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c >> @@ -401,7 +401,8 @@ static void drm_sched_entity_wakeup(struct dma_fence *f, >> container_of(cb, struct drm_sched_entity, cb); >> >> drm_sched_entity_clear_dep(f, cb); >> - drm_sched_wakeup_if_can_queue(drm_sched_entity_to_scheduler(entity)); >> + drm_sched_wakeup_if_can_queue(drm_sched_entity_to_scheduler(entity), >> + entity); >> } >> >> /** >> @@ -645,7 +646,7 @@ void drm_sched_entity_push_job(struct drm_sched_job *sched_job) >> if (fifo) >> drm_sched_rq_update_fifo(entity, submit_ts); >> >> - drm_sched_wakeup_if_can_queue(sched); >> + drm_sched_wakeup_if_can_queue(sched, entity); >> } >> } >> EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_entity_push_job); >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c >> index 88ef8be2d3c7..857622dd842e 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c >> @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ int drm_sched_policy_default = DRM_SCHED_POLICY_FIFO; >> MODULE_PARM_DESC(sched_policy, "Specify the scheduling policy for entities on a run-queue, " __stringify(DRM_SCHED_POLICY_RR) " = Round Robin, " __stringify(DRM_SCHED_POLICY_FIFO) " = FIFO (default)."); >> module_param_named(sched_policy, drm_sched_policy_default, int, 0444); >> >> +static bool drm_sched_can_queue(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, >> + struct drm_sched_entity *entity); >> + >> static __always_inline bool drm_sched_entity_compare_before(struct rb_node *a, >> const struct rb_node *b) >> { >> @@ -212,13 +215,15 @@ void drm_sched_rq_remove_entity(struct drm_sched_rq *rq, >> /** >> * drm_sched_rq_select_entity_rr - Select an entity which could provide a job to run >> * >> + * @sched: the gpu scheduler >> * @rq: scheduler run queue to check. >> * @dequeue: dequeue selected entity >> * >> * Try to find a ready entity, returns NULL if none found. >> */ >> static struct drm_sched_entity * >> -drm_sched_rq_select_entity_rr(struct drm_sched_rq *rq, bool dequeue) >> +drm_sched_rq_select_entity_rr(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, >> + struct drm_sched_rq *rq, bool dequeue) >> { >> struct drm_sched_entity *entity; >> >> @@ -227,7 +232,8 @@ drm_sched_rq_select_entity_rr(struct drm_sched_rq *rq, bool dequeue) >> entity = rq->current_entity; >> if (entity) { >> list_for_each_entry_continue(entity, &rq->entities, list) { >> - if (drm_sched_entity_is_ready(entity)) { >> + if (drm_sched_entity_is_ready(entity) && >> + drm_sched_can_queue(sched, entity)) { >> if (dequeue) { >> rq->current_entity = entity; >> reinit_completion(&entity->entity_idle); >> @@ -240,7 +246,8 @@ drm_sched_rq_select_entity_rr(struct drm_sched_rq *rq, bool dequeue) >> >> list_for_each_entry(entity, &rq->entities, list) { >> >> - if (drm_sched_entity_is_ready(entity)) { >> + if (drm_sched_entity_is_ready(entity) && >> + drm_sched_can_queue(sched, entity)) { >> if (dequeue) { >> rq->current_entity = entity; >> reinit_completion(&entity->entity_idle); >> @@ -261,13 +268,15 @@ drm_sched_rq_select_entity_rr(struct drm_sched_rq *rq, bool dequeue) >> /** >> * drm_sched_rq_select_entity_fifo - Select an entity which provides a job to run >> * >> + * @sched: the gpu scheduler >> * @rq: scheduler run queue to check. >> * @dequeue: dequeue selected entity >> * >> * Find oldest waiting ready entity, returns NULL if none found. >> */ >> static struct drm_sched_entity * >> -drm_sched_rq_select_entity_fifo(struct drm_sched_rq *rq, bool dequeue) >> +drm_sched_rq_select_entity_fifo(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, >> + struct drm_sched_rq *rq, bool dequeue) >> { >> struct rb_node *rb; >> >> @@ -276,7 +285,8 @@ drm_sched_rq_select_entity_fifo(struct drm_sched_rq *rq, bool dequeue) >> struct drm_sched_entity *entity; >> >> entity = rb_entry(rb, struct drm_sched_entity, rb_tree_node); >> - if (drm_sched_entity_is_ready(entity)) { >> + if (drm_sched_entity_is_ready(entity) && >> + drm_sched_can_queue(sched, entity)) { >> if (dequeue) { >> rq->current_entity = entity; >> reinit_completion(&entity->entity_idle); >> @@ -300,15 +310,27 @@ static void drm_sched_run_job_queue(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched) >> } >> >> /** >> - * drm_sched_can_queue -- Can we queue more to the hardware? >> + * drm_sched_can_queue - can we queue more jobs? > > This change doesn't seem necessary. "can we queue more jobs?" is, > while very puritan, very vague and unclear. Where are the jobs > queue to? What are they being queued for? Please leave this one > alone, or if you're determined to change this, say something like: > > Can we queue more jobs for execution? > > Also do NOT remove capitalization--leave it a proper sentence. > > (Yes, they may be going to a firmware scheduler running in the hardware, > but from our point of view, they cross over the PCIe horizon to a different > domain, and we call that which lies beyond the PCIe horizon, "hardware".) > > >> * @sched: scheduler instance >> + * @entity: the scheduler entity >> * >> - * Return true if we can push more jobs to the hw, otherwise false. >> + * Return true if we can push at least one more job from @entity, false >> + * otherwise. >> */ >> -static bool drm_sched_can_queue(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched) >> +static bool drm_sched_can_queue(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, >> + struct drm_sched_entity *entity) >> { >> - return atomic_read(&sched->hw_rq_count) < >> - sched->hw_submission_limit; >> + struct drm_sched_job *s_job; >> + >> + s_job = to_drm_sched_job(spsc_queue_peek(&entity->job_queue)); >> + if (!s_job) >> + return false; >> + >> + WARN_ON(s_job->submission_units > sched->submission_limit); >> + >> + return (sched->submission_limit - >> + atomic_read(&sched->submission_count)) >= >> + s_job->submission_units; >> } >> >> /** >> @@ -325,12 +347,10 @@ drm_sched_select_entity(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, bool dequeue) >> struct drm_sched_entity *entity; >> int i; >> >> - if (!drm_sched_can_queue(sched)) >> - return NULL; >> - >> if (sched->single_entity) { >> if (!READ_ONCE(sched->single_entity->stopped) && >> - drm_sched_entity_is_ready(sched->single_entity)) >> + drm_sched_entity_is_ready(sched->single_entity) && >> + drm_sched_can_queue(sched, sched->single_entity)) >> return sched->single_entity; > > I believe the fact that we're running on a work queue protects the scheduler > count, right? That's good. > >> >> return NULL; >> @@ -339,9 +359,11 @@ drm_sched_select_entity(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, bool dequeue) >> /* Kernel run queue has higher priority than normal run queue*/ >> for (i = DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_COUNT - 1; i >= DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_MIN; i--) { >> entity = sched->sched_policy == DRM_SCHED_POLICY_FIFO ? >> - drm_sched_rq_select_entity_fifo(&sched->sched_rq[i], >> + drm_sched_rq_select_entity_fifo(sched, >> + &sched->sched_rq[i], >> dequeue) : >> - drm_sched_rq_select_entity_rr(&sched->sched_rq[i], >> + drm_sched_rq_select_entity_rr(sched, >> + &sched->sched_rq[i], >> dequeue); >> if (entity) >> break; >> @@ -399,7 +421,7 @@ static void drm_sched_job_done(struct drm_sched_job *s_job, int result) >> struct drm_sched_fence *s_fence = s_job->s_fence; >> struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched = s_fence->sched; >> >> - atomic_dec(&sched->hw_rq_count); >> + atomic_sub(s_job->submission_units, &sched->submission_count); >> atomic_dec(sched->score); >> >> trace_drm_sched_process_job(s_fence); >> @@ -622,7 +644,8 @@ void drm_sched_stop(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, struct drm_sched_job *bad) >> &s_job->cb)) { >> dma_fence_put(s_job->s_fence->parent); >> s_job->s_fence->parent = NULL; >> - atomic_dec(&sched->hw_rq_count); >> + atomic_sub(s_job->submission_units, >> + &sched->submission_count); >> } else { >> /* >> * remove job from pending_list. >> @@ -683,7 +706,7 @@ void drm_sched_start(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, bool full_recovery) >> list_for_each_entry_safe(s_job, tmp, &sched->pending_list, list) { >> struct dma_fence *fence = s_job->s_fence->parent; >> >> - atomic_inc(&sched->hw_rq_count); >> + atomic_add(s_job->submission_units, &sched->submission_count); >> >> if (!full_recovery) >> continue; >> @@ -764,6 +787,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_resubmit_jobs); >> * drm_sched_job_init - init a scheduler job >> * @job: scheduler job to init >> * @entity: scheduler entity to use >> + * @submission_units: the amount of units this job contributes to the schdulers >> + * submission limit > > > "amount" is for uncountable entities, like milk, or water. Please use "number", > also fix "schedulers", e.g., > > * @submission_units: the number of units this job contributes to the schedulers' > * submission limit > >> * @owner: job owner for debugging >> * >> * Refer to drm_sched_entity_push_job() documentation >> @@ -781,6 +806,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_resubmit_jobs); >> */ >> int drm_sched_job_init(struct drm_sched_job *job, >> struct drm_sched_entity *entity, >> + u32 submission_units, >> void *owner) >> { >> if (!entity->rq && !entity->single_sched) >> @@ -792,6 +818,7 @@ int drm_sched_job_init(struct drm_sched_job *job, >> return -ENOMEM; >> >> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&job->list); >> + job->submission_units = submission_units ? submission_units : 1; >> >> xa_init_flags(&job->dependencies, XA_FLAGS_ALLOC); >> >> @@ -1004,12 +1031,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_job_cleanup); >> /** >> * drm_sched_wakeup_if_can_queue - Wake up the scheduler >> * @sched: scheduler instance >> + * @entity: the scheduler entity >> * >> * Wake up the scheduler if we can queue jobs. >> */ >> -void drm_sched_wakeup_if_can_queue(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched) >> +void drm_sched_wakeup_if_can_queue(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, >> + struct drm_sched_entity *entity) >> { >> - if (drm_sched_can_queue(sched)) >> + if (drm_sched_can_queue(sched, entity)) >> drm_sched_run_job_queue(sched); >> } >> >> @@ -1147,7 +1176,7 @@ static void drm_sched_run_job_work(struct work_struct *w) >> >> s_fence = sched_job->s_fence; >> >> - atomic_inc(&sched->hw_rq_count); >> + atomic_add(sched_job->submission_units, &sched->submission_count); >> drm_sched_job_begin(sched_job); >> >> trace_drm_run_job(sched_job, entity); >> @@ -1183,7 +1212,7 @@ static void drm_sched_run_job_work(struct work_struct *w) >> * @ops: backend operations for this scheduler >> * @submit_wq: workqueue to use for submission. If NULL, an ordered wq is >> * allocated and used >> - * @hw_submission: number of hw submissions that can be in flight >> + * @max_submission_units: number of submission units that can be in flight >> * @hang_limit: number of times to allow a job to hang before dropping it >> * @timeout: timeout value in jiffies for the scheduler >> * @timeout_wq: workqueue to use for timeout work. If NULL, the system_wq is >> @@ -1198,7 +1227,7 @@ static void drm_sched_run_job_work(struct work_struct *w) >> int drm_sched_init(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, >> const struct drm_sched_backend_ops *ops, >> struct workqueue_struct *submit_wq, >> - unsigned hw_submission, unsigned hang_limit, >> + unsigned max_submission_units, unsigned hang_limit, >> long timeout, struct workqueue_struct *timeout_wq, >> atomic_t *score, const char *name, >> enum drm_sched_policy sched_policy, >> @@ -1211,7 +1240,7 @@ int drm_sched_init(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, >> >> sched->ops = ops; >> sched->single_entity = NULL; >> - sched->hw_submission_limit = hw_submission; >> + sched->submission_limit = max_submission_units; >> sched->name = name; >> if (!submit_wq) { >> sched->submit_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue(name, 0); >> @@ -1238,7 +1267,7 @@ int drm_sched_init(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, >> init_waitqueue_head(&sched->job_scheduled); >> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sched->pending_list); >> spin_lock_init(&sched->job_list_lock); >> - atomic_set(&sched->hw_rq_count, 0); >> + atomic_set(&sched->submission_count, 0); >> INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&sched->work_tdr, drm_sched_job_timedout); >> INIT_WORK(&sched->work_run_job, drm_sched_run_job_work); >> INIT_WORK(&sched->work_free_job, drm_sched_free_job_work); >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_gem.c >> index 2e94ce788c71..8479e5302f7b 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_gem.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_gem.c >> @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ v3d_job_init(struct v3d_dev *v3d, struct drm_file *file_priv, >> job->free = free; >> >> ret = drm_sched_job_init(&job->base, &v3d_priv->sched_entity[queue], >> - v3d_priv); >> + 1, v3d_priv); >> if (ret) >> goto fail; >> >> diff --git a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h >> index 27f5778bbd6d..89b0aecd02e3 100644 >> --- a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h >> +++ b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h >> @@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ struct drm_sched_fence *to_drm_sched_fence(struct dma_fence *f); >> * @sched: the scheduler instance on which this job is scheduled. >> * @s_fence: contains the fences for the scheduling of job. >> * @finish_cb: the callback for the finished fence. >> + * @submission_units: the amount of submission units this job contributes to >> + * the scheduler > > "The _number_ of submission units ..." > > "The amount of milk and sugar necessary to make a 3 lbs cake is ..." > >> * @work: Helper to reschdeule job kill to different context. >> * @id: a unique id assigned to each job scheduled on the scheduler. >> * @karma: increment on every hang caused by this job. If this exceeds the hang >> @@ -348,6 +350,8 @@ struct drm_sched_job { >> struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched; >> struct drm_sched_fence *s_fence; >> >> + u32 submission_units; >> + >> /* >> * work is used only after finish_cb has been used and will not be >> * accessed anymore. >> @@ -478,14 +482,14 @@ struct drm_sched_backend_ops { >> * >> * @ops: backend operations provided by the driver. >> * @single_entity: Single entity for the scheduler >> - * @hw_submission_limit: the max size of the hardware queue. >> + * @submission_limit: the maximim amount of submission units > > "the maximum number of submission units" > >> + * @submission_count: the number current amount of submission units in flight > > "the number current amount of" --> "the number of submission units in flight", > you don't need "current" as it is implied by the English language--it's redundant. > > >> * @timeout: the time after which a job is removed from the scheduler. >> * @name: name of the ring for which this scheduler is being used. >> * @sched_rq: priority wise array of run queues. >> * @job_scheduled: once @drm_sched_entity_do_release is called the scheduler >> * waits on this wait queue until all the scheduled jobs are >> * finished. >> - * @hw_rq_count: the number of jobs currently in the hardware queue. >> * @job_id_count: used to assign unique id to the each job. >> * @submit_wq: workqueue used to queue @work_run_job and @work_free_job >> * @timeout_wq: workqueue used to queue @work_tdr >> @@ -511,12 +515,12 @@ struct drm_sched_backend_ops { >> struct drm_gpu_scheduler { >> const struct drm_sched_backend_ops *ops; >> struct drm_sched_entity *single_entity; >> - uint32_t hw_submission_limit; >> + u32 submission_limit; >> + atomic_t submission_count; > > That's good. > > So, this is a good patch. Please fix the annotated above, and repost it > for an R-B. Thanks! :-)