We need to move to a more flexible timeline that doesn't assume one
fence context per engine, and so allow for a single timeline to be used
across a combination of engines. This means that preallocating a fence
context per engine is now a hindrance, and so we want to introduce the
singular timeline. From the code perspective, this has the notable
advantage of clearing up a lot of mirky semantics and some clumsy
pointer chasing.
By splitting the timeline up into a single entity rather than an array
of per-engine timelines, we can realise the goal of the previous patch
of tracking the timeline alongside the ring.
v2: Tweak wait_for_idle to stop the compiling thinking that ret may be
uninitialised.
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/20180502163839.3248-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In the future, we want to move a request between engines. To achieve
this, we first realise that we have two timelines in effect here. The
first runs through the GTT is required for ordering vma access, which is
tracked currently by engine. The second is implied by sequential
execution of commands inside the ringbuffer. This timeline is one that
maps to userspace's expectations when submitting requests (i.e. given the
same context, batch A is executed before batch B). As the rings's
timelines map to userspace and the GTT timeline an implementation
detail, move the timeline from the GTT into the ring itself (per-context
in logical-ring-contexts/execlists, or a global per-engine timeline for
the shared ringbuffers in legacy submission.
The two timelines are still assumed to be equivalent at the moment (no
migrating requests between engines yet) and so we can simply move from
one to the other without adding extra ordering.
v2: Reinforce that one isn't allowed to mix the engine execution
timeline with the client timeline from userspace (on the ring).
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/20180502163839.3248-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In the next patch, rings are the central timeline as requests may jump
between engines. Therefore in the future as we retire in order along the
engine timeline, we may retire out-of-order within a ring (as the ring now
occurs along multiple engines), leading to much hilarity in miscomputing
the position of ring->head.
As an added bonus, retiring along the ring reduces the penalty of having
one execlists client do cleanup for another (old legacy submission
shares a ring between all clients). The downside is that slow and
irregular (off the critical path) process of cleaning up stale requests
after userspace becomes a modicum less efficient.
In the long run, it will become apparent that the ordered
ring->request_list matches the ring->timeline, a fun challenge for the
future will be unifying the two lists to avoid duplication!
v2: We need both engine-order and ring-order processing to maintain our
knowledge of where individual rings have completed upto as well as
knowing what was last executing on any engine. And finally by decoupling
retiring the contexts on the engine and the timelines along the rings,
we do have to keep a reference to the context on each request
(previously it was guaranteed by the context being pinned).
v3: Not just a reference to the context, but we need to keep it pinned
as we manipulate the rings; i.e. we need a pin for both the manipulation
of the engine state during its retirements, and a separate pin for the
manipulation of the ring state.
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/20180430131503.5375-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
We don't actually emit any commands into the ringbuffer, so we set it
very small. However, an upcoming change centralises the wait-for-space
into i915_gem_request_alloc() and that imposes a minimum size upon all
ringbuffers (mock or real) of MIN_SPACE_FOR_ADD_REQUEST. Grow the
mock ringbuffer such that we allocate a single page for the struct+buffer,
satisfying the new condition without wasting too much space.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171115151204.8105-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In the original selftest, we didn't care what the engine->id was, just
that it could uniquely identify it. Later though, we started tracking
the mock engines in the fixed size arrays around the drm_i915_private and
so we now require their indices to be correct. This becomes an issue when
using the standalone harness which runs all available tests at module load,
and so we quickly assign an out-of-bounds index to an engine as we
reallocate the mock GEM device between tests. It doesn't show up in
igt/drv_selftest as that runs each subtest individually.
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102045
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170809163930.26470-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Since unifying ringbuffer/execlist submission to use
engine->pin_context, we ensure that the intel_ring is available before
we start constructing the request. We can therefore move the assignment
of the request->ring to the central i915_gem_request_alloc() and not
require it in every engine->request_alloc() callback. Another small step
towards simplification (of the core, but at a cost of handling error
pointers in less important callers of engine->pin_context).
v2: Rearrange a few branches to reduce impact of PTR_ERR() on gcc's code
generation.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170504093308.4137-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Or rather it is used only by intel_ring_pin() to extract the
drm_i915_private which we can easily pass in. As this is a relatively
rare operation, save the space in the struct, and as such it is even
break even in the extra code for passing around the parameter:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/3 up/down: 15/-15 (0)
function old new delta
intel_init_ring_buffer 906 918 +12
execlists_context_pin 1308 1311 +3
mock_engine 407 403 -4
intel_engine_create_ring 367 363 -4
intel_ring_pin 326 319 -7
Total: Before=1261794, After=1261794, chg +0.00%
v2: Reorder intel_init_ring_buffer to keep the ring setup together:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/3 up/down: 9/-15 (-6)
function old new delta
intel_init_ring_buffer 906 912 +6
execlists_context_pin 1308 1311 +3
mock_engine 407 403 -4
intel_engine_create_ring 367 363 -4
intel_ring_pin 326 319 -7
Total: Before=1261794, After=1261788, chg -0.00%
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/20170403113426.25707-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
