I915_GEM_THROTTLE dates back to the time before contexts where there was
just a single engine, and therefore a single timeline and request list
globally. That request list was in execution/retirement order, and so
walking it to find a particular aged request made sense and could be
split per file.
That is no more. We now have many timelines with a file, as many as the
user wants to construct (essentially per-engine, per-context). Each of
those run independently and so make the single list futile. Remove the
disordered list, and iterate over all the timelines to find a request to
wait on in each to satisfy the criteria that the CPU is no more than 20ms
ahead of its oldest request.
It should go without saying that the I915_GEM_THROTTLE ioctl is no
longer used as the primary means of throttling, so it makes sense to push
the complication into the ioctl where it only impacts upon its few
irregular users, rather than the execbuf/retire where everybody has to
pay the cost. Fortunately, the few users do not create vast amount of
contexts, so the loops over contexts/engines should be concise.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200728152010.30701-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Not too long ago, we realised we had issues with a rolling back a
context so far for a preemption request we considered the resubmit not
to be a rollback but a forward roll. This means we would issue a lite
restore instead of forcing a full restore, continuing execution of the
old requests rather than causing a preemption. Add a selftest to
exercise such a far rollback, such that if we were to skip the full
restore, we would execute invalid instructions in the ring and hang.
Note that while I was able to confirm that this causes us to do a
lite-restore preemption rollback (with commit e36ba817fa ("drm/i915/gt:
Incrementally check for rewinding") disabled), it did not trick the HW
into rolling past the old RING_TAIL. Myybe on other HW.
References: e36ba817fa ("drm/i915/gt: Incrementally check for rewinding")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200616185518.11948-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reduce the smoke depth by trimming the number of contexts, repetitions
and wait times. This is in preparation for a less greedy scheduler that
tries to be fair across contexts, resulting in a great many more context
switches. A thousand context switches may be 50-100ms, causing us to
timeout as the HW is not fast enough to complete the deep smoketests.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200607222108.14401-5-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
We have a I915_REQUEST_NOPREEMPT flag that we set when we must prevent
the HW from preempting during the course of this request. We need to
honour this flag and protect the HW even if we have a heartbeat request,
or other maximum priority barrier, pending. As such, restrict the
timeslicing check to avoid preempting into the topmost priority band,
leaving the unpreemptable requests in blissful peace running
uninterrupted on the HW.
v2: Set the I915_PRIORITY_BARRIER to be less than
I915_PRIORITY_UNPREEMPTABLE so that we never submit a request
(heartbeat or barrier) that can legitimately preempt the current
non-premptable request.
Fixes: 2a98f4e65b ("drm/i915: add infrastructure to hold off preemption on a request")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200527162418.24755-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The older arches did not convert MI_STORE_DATA_IMM to using the GTT, but
left them writing to a physical address. The notes suggest that the
primary reason would be so that the writes were cache coherent, as the
CPU cache uses physical tagging. As such we did not implement the
legacy variant of MI_STORE_DATA_IMM and so left all the relocations
synchronous -- but with a small function to convert from the vma address
into the physical address, we can implement asynchronous relocs on these
older arches, fixing up a few tests that require them.
In order to be able to test the legacy paths, refactor the gpu
relocations so that we can hook them up to a selftest.
v2: Use an array of offsets not enum labels for the selftest
v3: Refactor the common igt_hexdump()
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/757
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200504140629.28240-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
We need to keep the default context state around to instantiate new
contexts (aka golden rendercontext), and we also keep it pinned while
the engine is active so that we can quickly reset a hanging context.
However, the default contexts are large enough to merit keeping in
swappable memory as opposed to kernel memory, so we store them inside
shmemfs. Currently, we use the normal GEM objects to create the default
context image, but we can throw away all but the shmemfs file.
This greatly simplifies the tricky power management code which wants to
run underneath the normal GT locking, and we definitely do not want to
use any high level objects that may appear to recurse back into the GT.
Though perhaps the primary advantage of the complex GEM object is that
we aggressively cache the mapping, but here we are recreating the
vm_area everytime time we unpark. At the worst, we add a lightweight
cache, but first find a microbenchmark that is impacted.
Having started to create some utility functions to make working with
shmemfs objects easier, we can start putting them to wider use, where
GEM objects are overkill, such as storing persistent error state.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Ramalingam C <ramalingam.c@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200429172429.6054-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Indirect ctx batchbuffers are a hw feature of which
batch can be run, by hardware, during context restoration stage.
Driver can setup a batchbuffer and also an offset into the
context image. When context image is marshalled from
memory to registers, and when the offset from the start of
context register state is equal of what driver pre-determined,
batch will run. So one can manipulate context restoration
process at cacheline granularity, given some limitations,
as you need to have rudimentaries in place before you can
run a batch.
Add selftest which will write the ring start register
to a canary spot. This will test that hardware will run a
batchbuffer for the context in question.
v2: request wait fix, naming (Chris)
v3: test order (Chris)
v4: rebase
Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200424214841.28076-3-mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com
If we find ourselves waiting on a MI_SEMAPHORE_WAIT, either within the
user batch or in our own preamble, the engine raises a
GT_WAIT_ON_SEMAPHORE interrupt. We can unmask that interrupt and so
respond to a semaphore wait by yielding the timeslice, if we have
another context to yield to!
The only real complication is that the interrupt is only generated for
the start of the semaphore wait, and is asynchronous to our
process_csb() -- that is, we may not have registered the timeslice before
we see the interrupt. To ensure we don't miss a potential semaphore
blocking forward progress (e.g. selftests/live_timeslice_preempt) we mark
the interrupt and apply it to the next timeslice regardless of whether it
was active at the time.
v2: We use semaphores in preempt-to-busy, within the timeslicing
implementation itself! Ergo, when we do insert a preemption due to an
expired timeslice, the new context may start with the missed semaphore
flagged by the retired context and be yielded, ad infinitum. To avoid
this, read the context id at the time of the semaphore interrupt and
only yield if that context is still active.
Fixes: 8ee36e048c ("drm/i915/execlists: Minimalistic timeslicing")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200407130811.17321-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
