Re: [PATCH 7/7] drm/i915: Mark the GT as busy before idling the previous request

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On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 09:52 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> In a synchronous setup, we may retire the last request before we
> complete allocating the next request. As the last request is retired, we
> queue a timer to mark the device as idle, and promptly have to execute
> ad cancel that timer once we complete allocating the request and need to
> keep the device awake. If we rearrange the mark_busy() to occur before
> we retire the previous request, we can skip this ping-pong.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

<SNIP>

> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
> @@ -265,6 +265,13 @@ static int reserve_seqno(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
>  
>  static void unreserve_seqno(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
>  {
> +	if (!--engine->i915->gt.active_requests) {
> +		GEM_BUG_ON(!engine->i915->gt.awake);
> +		mod_delayed_work(engine->i915->wq,
> +				 &engine->i915->gt.idle_work,
> +				 msecs_to_jiffies(100));
> +	}

This function could use a better name, now it seems to tightly tie to
seqno only, and idle work is very unexpected. How about just
unreserve_engine vs. reserve_engine?

Regards, Joonas
-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation
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