This reimplements the denial-of-service protection against igt from
commit 227f782e46 ("drm/i915: Retire requests before creating a new
one") and transfers the stall from before each batch into get_pages().
The issue is that the stall is increasing latency between batches which
is detrimental in some cases (especially coupled with execlists) to
keeping the GPU well fed. Also we have made the observation that retiring
requests can of itself free objects (and requests) and therefore makes
a good first step when shrinking.
v2: Recycle objects prior to i915_gem_object_get_pages()
v3: Remove the reference to the ring from i915_gem_requests_ring() as it
operates on an intel_engine_cs.
v4: Since commit 9b5f4e5ed6 ("drm/i915: Retire oldest completed request
before allocating next") we no longer need the safeguard to retire
requests before get_pages(). We no longer see the huge latencies when
hitting the shrinker between allocations.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-4-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
With the introduction of requests, we amplified the number of atomic
refcounted objects we use and update every execbuffer; from none to
several references, and a set of references that need to be changed. We
also introduced interesting side-effects in the order of retiring
requests and objects.
Instead of independently tracking the last request for an object, track
the active objects for each request. The object will reside in the
buffer list of its most recent active request and so we reduce the kref
interchange to a list_move. Now retirements are entirely driven by the
request, dramatically simplifying activity tracking on the object
themselves, and removing the ambiguity between retiring objects and
retiring requests.
Furthermore with the consolidation of managing the activity tracking
centrally, we can look forward to using RCU to enable lockless lookup of
the current active requests for an object. In the future, we will be
able to query the status or wait upon rendering to an object without
even touching the struct_mutex BKL.
All told, less code, simpler and faster, and more extensible.
v2: Add a typedef for the function pointer for convenience later.
v3: Make the noop retirement callback explicit. Allow passing NULL to
the init_request_active() which is expanded to a common noop function.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470293567-10811-16-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Rather than passing a complete set of GPU cache domains for either
invalidation or for flushing, or even both, just pass a single parameter
to the engine->emit_flush to determine the required operations.
engine->emit_flush(GPU, 0) -> engine->emit_flush(EMIT_INVALIDATE)
engine->emit_flush(0, GPU) -> engine->emit_flush(EMIT_FLUSH)
engine->emit_flush(GPU, GPU) -> engine->emit_flush(EMIT_FLUSH | EMIT_INVALIDATE)
This allows us to extend the behaviour easily in future, for example if
we want just a command barrier without the overhead of flushing.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470174640-18242-8-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The state stored in this struct is not only the information about the
buffer object, but the ring used to communicate with the hardware. Using
buffer here is overly specific and, for me at least, conflates with the
notion of buffer objects themselves.
s/struct intel_ringbuffer/struct intel_ring/
s/enum intel_ring_hangcheck/enum intel_engine_hangcheck/
s/describe_ctx_ringbuf()/describe_ctx_ring()/
s/intel_ring_get_active_head()/intel_engine_get_active_head()/
s/intel_ring_sync_index()/intel_engine_sync_index()/
s/intel_ring_init_seqno()/intel_engine_init_seqno()/
s/ring_stuck()/engine_stuck()/
s/intel_cleanup_engine()/intel_engine_cleanup()/
s/intel_stop_engine()/intel_engine_stop()/
s/intel_pin_and_map_ringbuffer_obj()/intel_pin_and_map_ring()/
s/intel_unpin_ringbuffer()/intel_unpin_ring()/
s/intel_engine_create_ringbuffer()/intel_engine_create_ring()/
s/intel_ring_flush_all_caches()/intel_engine_flush_all_caches()/
s/intel_ring_invalidate_all_caches()/intel_engine_invalidate_all_caches()/
s/intel_ringbuffer_free()/intel_ring_free()/
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1469432687-22756-15-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470174640-18242-4-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
