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Chris Wilson c9c7047154 drm/i915: Track number of pending freed objects
During igt, we frequently call into the driver to reset both HW and
driver state (idling the device, waiting for it to become idle and
freeing off old objects) to ensure that we start each test/subtest/pass
from known state. This process incurs an RCU barrier or two to ensure
that any such pending frees are indeed flushed before we return.
However, unconditionally waiting on the RCU barrier adds needless delay
to many callers, which adds up to several seconds when repeated thousands
of times. We can skip the rcu_barrier() if by tracking how many outstanding
frees we have, we know there are none.

The same path is used along suspend, where we may be able to save the
unconditional RCU barrier.

To put it into perspective with a completely meaningless
microbenchmark, igt/gem_sync/idle is improved from 50ms to 30us on bdw.

v2: Remove the extra synchronize_rcu() inside i915_drop_caches_set()

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180219220631.25001-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
2018-02-20 09:10:41 +00:00
arch Linux 4.15-rc8 2018-01-18 09:32:15 +10:00
block block: drain queue before waiting for q_usage_counter becoming zero 2018-01-05 09:09:48 -07:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-01-12 09:47:58 -08:00
Documentation Linux 4.15-rc8 2018-01-18 09:32:15 +10:00
drivers drm/i915: Track number of pending freed objects 2018-02-20 09:10:41 +00:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-06 17:13:21 -08:00
include drm: move read_domains and write_domain into i915 2018-02-16 14:12:48 +00:00
init Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-12 10:23:59 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-01-13 11:07:55 -08:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2018-01-10 11:17:21 -05:00
mm kmemleak: allow to coexist with fault injection 2018-01-13 10:42:48 -08:00
net Char/Misc fixes for 4.15-rc8 2018-01-13 14:01:59 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.15 2018-01-13 13:24:56 -08:00
security Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-14 09:51:25 -08:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Allow aborting mutex lock at OSS read/write loops 2018-01-08 16:40:26 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-14 09:51:25 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.15, Round 2 2017-12-18 12:57:43 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Mark Yao's email address 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Linux 4.15-rc8 2018-01-18 09:32:15 +10:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc8 2018-01-14 15:32:30 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.