Re: [PATCH 1/7] drm/i915: Flush submission tasklet after bumping priority

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Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> When called from process context tasklet_schedule() defers itself to
> ksoftirqd. From experience this may cause unacceptable latencies of over
> 200ms in executing the submission tasklet, our goal is to reprioritise
> the HW execution queue and trigger preemption immediately, so convert

I would add 'execlists preemption' even tho the context points to it,
as we are also quite intimately entangled here with kernel preemption
too.

> the rcu protection over to include a kick of the tasklet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index 5ece6ae4bdff..03cd30001b5d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -578,10 +578,10 @@ static void __fence_set_priority(struct dma_fence *fence,
>  	rq = to_request(fence);
>  	engine = rq->engine;
>  
> -	rcu_read_lock();
> +	local_bh_disable(); /* RCU serialisation for set-wedged protection */
>  	if (engine->schedule)
>  		engine->schedule(rq, attr);
> -	rcu_read_unlock();
> +	local_bh_enable(); /* kick the tasklets if queues were reprioritised */

Do we end up calling the tasklet->func() explicitly on the end of
engine->schedule()?

Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  }
>  
>  static void fence_set_priority(struct dma_fence *fence,
> -- 
> 2.17.0
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