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Commit a7980a64 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915: Apply a cond_resched() to the saturated signaler

If the engine is continually completing nops, we can saturate the
signaler and keep it working indefinitely. This angers the NMI watchdog!

A good example is to disable semaphores on snb and run igt/gem_exec_nop -
the parallel, multi-engine workloads are more than sufficient to hog the
CPU, preventing the system from even processing ICMP echo replies.

v2: Tvrtko dug into cond_resched() on x86 and found that it only
depended upon preempt_count and not tif_need_resched() - which means
that we would always call schedule() at that point.

Fixes: c81d4613

 ("drm/i915: Convert trace-irq to the breadcrumb waiter")
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170404120531.10737-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: default avatarTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
parent b1becb88
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