Don't pre-emptively retire the oldest request in our ring's list if it is the only request. We keep various bits of state alive using the active reference from the request and would rather transfer that state over to a new request rather than the more involved process of retiring and reacquiring it. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c index 63bb61089be5..d68739b94dac 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c @@ -695,9 +695,9 @@ i915_request_alloc(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, struct i915_gem_context *ctx) goto err_unreserve; /* Move our oldest request to the slab-cache (if not in use!) */ - rq = list_first_entry_or_null(&ring->request_list, - typeof(*rq), ring_link); - if (rq && i915_request_completed(rq)) + rq = list_first_entry(&ring->request_list, typeof(*rq), ring_link); + if (!list_is_last(&rq->ring_link, &ring->request_list) && + i915_request_completed(rq)) i915_request_retire(rq); /* -- 2.17.0 _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx