Re: [PATCH 5/7] drm/i915: handle interrupts from the OA unit

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On 16/01/2019 15:52, Chris Wilson wrote:
Quoting Lionel Landwerlin (2019-01-16 15:36:20)
@@ -1877,6 +1883,21 @@ struct drm_i915_private {
                         wait_queue_head_t poll_wq;
                         bool pollin;
+ /**
+                        * Atomic counter incremented by the interrupt
+                        * handling code for each OA half full interrupt
+                        * received.
+                        */
+                       atomic64_t half_full_count;
+
+                       /**
+                        * Copy of the atomic half_full_count that was last
+                        * processed in the i915-perf driver. If both counters
+                        * differ, there is data available to read in the OA
+                        * buffer.
+                        */
+                       u64 half_full_count_last;
Eh? But why a relatively expensive atomic64. You only need one bit, and
reading the tail pointer from WB memory should just be cheap. You should
be able to sample the perf ringbuffer pointers very cheaply... What am I
missing?
-Chris

Fair comment.

The thing is with this series there are 2 mechanism that notify the poll_wq.

One is the hrtimer that kicks in at regular interval and polls the register with the workaround.

The other is the interrupt which doesn't read the registers and workaround.


Maybe a better way to do it would be to have 2 wait queues, one triggers a workqueue for the oa_buffer_check after the interrupt, the other notifies the existing poll_wq.


-

Lionel

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