On 07/05/2020 16:00, Chris Wilson wrote:
Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2020-05-07 15:53:08)
On 07/05/2020 09:21, Chris Wilson wrote:
We recorded the dependencies for WAIT_FOR_SUBMIT in order that we could
correctly perform priority inheritance from the parallel branches to the
common trunk. However, for the purpose of timeslicing and reset
handling, the dependency is weak -- as we the pair of requests are
allowed to run in parallel and not in strict succession. So for example
we do need to suspend one if the other hangs.
The real significance though is that this allows us to rearrange
groups of WAIT_FOR_SUBMIT linked requests along the single engine, and
so can resolve user level inter-batch scheduling dependencies from user
semaphores.
Fixes: c81471f5e95c ("drm/i915: Copy across scheduler behaviour flags across submit fences")
Testcase: igt/gem_exec_fence/submit
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.6+
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c | 9 +++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 8 ++++++--
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c | 6 +++---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h | 3 ++-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h | 1 +
5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
index dc3f2ee7136d..10109f661bcb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
@@ -1880,6 +1880,9 @@ static void defer_request(struct i915_request *rq, struct list_head * const pl)
struct i915_request *w =
container_of(p->waiter, typeof(*w), sched);
+ if (p->flags & I915_DEPENDENCY_WEAK)
+ continue;
+
I did not quite get it - submit fence dependency would mean different
engines, so the below check (w->engine != rq->engine) would effectively
have the same effect. What am I missing?
That submit fences can be between different contexts on the same engine.
The example (from mesa) is where we have two interdependent clients
which are using their own userlevel scheduling inside each batch, i.e.
waiting on semaphores.
But if submit fence was used that means the waiter should never be
submitted ahead of the signaler. And with this change it could get ahead
in the priolist, no?
Regards,
Tvrtko
