On to, 2016-04-28 at 17:24 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> At the start of request emission, we flush some space for the request,
> estimating the typical size for the request body. The common tail is now
> much larger than the typical body, so we can shrink the flush
> substantially.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I assume this was an educated guess to some extent not to cause huge
regressions in performance.
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
> index 4c832f90fe49..4735460be1a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
> @@ -228,6 +228,9 @@ enum {
> #define GEN8_CTX_RCS_INDIRECT_CTX_OFFSET_DEFAULT 0x17
> #define GEN9_CTX_RCS_INDIRECT_CTX_OFFSET_DEFAULT 0x26
>
> +/* Typical size of the average request (2 pipecontrols and a MI_BB) */
> +#define EXECLISTS_REQUEST_SIZE 64 /* bytes */
> +
> static int execlists_context_deferred_alloc(struct intel_context *ctx,
> struct intel_engine_cs *engine);
> static int intel_lr_context_pin(struct intel_context *ctx,
> @@ -679,7 +682,7 @@ int intel_logical_ring_alloc_request_extras(struct drm_i915_gem_request *request
> * we start building the request - in which case we will just
> * have to repeat work.
> */
> - request->reserved_space += MIN_SPACE_FOR_ADD_REQUEST;
> + request->reserved_space += EXECLISTS_REQUEST_SIZE;
>
> if (request->ctx->engine[engine->id].state == NULL) {
> ret = execlists_context_deferred_alloc(request->ctx, engine);
> @@ -725,7 +728,7 @@ int intel_logical_ring_alloc_request_extras(struct drm_i915_gem_request *request
> * to cancel/unwind this request now.
> */
>
> - request->reserved_space -= MIN_SPACE_FOR_ADD_REQUEST;
> + request->reserved_space -= EXECLISTS_REQUEST_SIZE;
> return 0;
>
> err_unpin:
--
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation
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