On 05.11.2017 19:43, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
On 05.11.2017 14:01, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
In the traditional channel allocation model, a single hardware channel
was allocated for each client. This is simple from an implementation
perspective but prevents use of hardware scheduling.
This patch implements a channel allocation model where when a user
submits a job for a context, a hardware channel is allocated for
that context. The same channel is kept for as long as there are
incomplete jobs for that context. This way we can use hardware
scheduling and channel isolation between userspace processes, but
also prevent idling contexts from taking up hardware resources.
The dynamic channels resources (pushbuf) allocation is very expensive,
neglecting all benefits that this model should bring at least in non-IOMMU case.
We could have statically preallocated channels resources or defer resources freeing.
This is true. I'll try to figure out a nice way to keep the pushbuf
allocations.
For now, this patch only adapts VIC to the new model.
I think VIC's conversion should be a distinct patch.
Sure.
Cheers,
Mikko
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