Re: [PATCH 17/49] drm/i915: Implement inter-engine read-read optimisations

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On 03/30/2015 03:09 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 02:52:26PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
+static void
+__i915_gem_request_retire__upto(struct drm_i915_gem_request *rq)

It is a bit annoying (for readability) that it can be rq, req and request.

Nonsense they are all rq and struct i915_request. Or once have been and
so will again. /prophecy

rq is least spread in the codebase, and even the worst option of the three since it sounds like a queue of some sort.

+err:
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+		if (ret == 0) {
+			int ring = requests[i]->ring->id;
+			if (obj->last_read_req[ring] == requests[i])
+				i915_gem_object_retire__read(obj, ring);
+			if (obj->last_write_req == requests[i])
+				i915_gem_object_retire__write(obj);

Above four lines seem to be identical functionality to similar four
in __i915_gem_object_sync.

Yes. Extracting them ended up looking worse (imo).

It would be a single function call taking object and request, how can it be worse? Should be more readable with a good name.

Also, _retire__read will do _retire__write if there is one on the
same ring. And here by definition they are since it is the same
request, no?

No. It's subtle but here is the bug I pointed out from before. Once we
drop the lock, we no longer can make assumptions about the state of obj.

You mean request might have disappeared from last_read_req but is still on last_write_req? But how, since if it was retired that shouldn't be possible.

@@ -2698,16 +2747,13 @@ i915_gem_retire_requests_ring(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
  		if (!i915_gem_request_completed(request, true))
  			break;

-		trace_i915_gem_request_retire(request);
-
  		/* We know the GPU must have read the request to have
  		 * sent us the seqno + interrupt, so use the position
  		 * of tail of the request to update the last known position
  		 * of the GPU head.
  		 */
  		request->ringbuf->last_retired_head = request->postfix;
-
-		i915_gem_free_request(request);
+		i915_gem_request_retire(request);
  	}

This loop could also use __i915_gem_request_retire__upto if it found
the first completed request first. Not sure how much code would that
save but would maube be more readable, a little bit more self
documenting.

Actually this loop here should be pushed back to the engine (as part of
later patches). After that transformation, using i915_gem_request_retire()
is even clearer. But _retire__upto does become the main way in which we
retire requests (having killed off retire_requests_ring in favour of
explict wait/poll+retire).

That sounds good.

So far it all looks reasonable to me, but apart from the comments
above, I want to do another pass anyway.

There's a few more changes afoot as well (minor ones concerning
retire__upto and unexporting retire_requests_rig).

Ok.

Regards,

Tvrtko
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