We keep a global seed for the legacy BSD round-robin selector, but in
our testing of multiple simultaneous client workloads, a random seed
spreads the load more evenly. (As even as an initial round-robin selector
can be!) Removing the global is one less variable we have to find a home
for!
We can simulate multi-client (both same and mixed workloads) using
igt/gem_wsim to work out optimal strategies and then compare our
simulation with the actual transcoder on multi-engine machines. This
fixed round-robin turns out to be one of the worst methods.
No user is advised to use this method; the current suggestion is to use
a virtual engine for agnostic batches, randomised submission or using
the busyness tracking to select the most idle engine at the time of
dispatch. At the present time, intel-media is explicit, but libva still
seems to use it, with the exception of batches that must execute on vcs0.
Oh well.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 3 +--
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 3 ---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 2 --
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index 566e8a4844cf..7fdb2ec94aff 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -2114,8 +2114,7 @@ gen8_dispatch_bsd_engine(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
/* Check whether the file_priv has already selected one ring. */
if ((int)file_priv->bsd_engine < 0)
- file_priv->bsd_engine = atomic_fetch_xor(1,
- &dev_priv->mm.bsd_engine_dispatch_index);
+ file_priv->bsd_engine = get_random_int() & 1;
return file_priv->bsd_engine;
}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 0d1949a78c44..38892481c9a7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -785,9 +785,6 @@ struct i915_gem_mm {
u64 unordered_timeline;
- /* the indicator for dispatch video commands on two BSD rings */
- atomic_t bsd_engine_dispatch_index;
-
/** Bit 6 swizzling required for X tiling */
u32 bit_6_swizzle_x;
/** Bit 6 swizzling required for Y tiling */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 67a0bc4db9cd..6ff01a404346 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -1653,8 +1653,6 @@ int i915_gem_init_early(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
i915_gem_init__mm(dev_priv);
i915_gem_init__pm(dev_priv);
- atomic_set(&dev_priv->mm.bsd_engine_dispatch_index, 0);
-
spin_lock_init(&dev_priv->fb_tracking.lock);
err = i915_gemfs_init(dev_priv);
--
2.23.0.rc1
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