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
Space for flushing the GPU cache prior to completing the request is
preallocated and so cannot fail - the GPU caches will always be flushed
along with the completed request. This means we no longer have to track
whether the GPU cache is dirty between batches like we had to with the
outstanding_lazy_seqno.
With the removal of the duplication in the per-backend entry points for
emitting the obsolete lazy flush, we can then further unify the
engine->emit_flush.
v2: Expand a bit on the legacy of gpu_caches_dirty
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1469432687-22756-18-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470174640-18242-7-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
Now that PCU communication is reasonably fast, we do not need to defer
RC6 initialisation to a workqueue.
References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97017
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
We want to restrict waitboosting to known process contexts, where we can
track which clients are receiving waitboosts and prevent excessive power
wasting. For fence_wait() we do not have any client tracking and so that
leaves it open to abuse.
v2: Hide the IS_ERR_OR_NULL testing for special clients
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1469002875-2335-5-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
dma-buf provides a generic fence class for interoperation between
drivers. Internally we use the request structure as a fence, and so with
only a little bit of interfacing we can rebase those requests on top of
dma-buf fences. This will allow us, in the future, to pass those fences
back to userspace or between drivers.
v2: The fence_context needs to be globally unique, not just unique to
this device.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1469002875-2335-4-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In order to keep the memory allocated for requests reasonably tight, try
to reuse the oldest request (so long as it is completed and has no
external references) for the next allocation.
v2: Throw in a comment to hopefully make sure no one mistakes the
optimistic retirement of the oldest request for simply stealing it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1469002875-2335-2-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Migrate the request operations out of the main body of i915_gem.c and
into their own C file for easier expansion.
v2: Move __i915_add_request() across as well
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1469002875-2335-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
