drm/i915: Allow normal clients to always preempt idle priority clients
When first enabling preemption, we hesitated from making it a free-for-all where every higher priority client would force a preempt-to-idle cycle and take over from all lower priority clients. We hesitated because we were uncertain just how well preemption would work in practice, whether the preemption latency itself would detract from the latency gains for higher priority tasks and whether it would work at all. Since introducing preemption, we have been enabling it for more common tasks, even giving normal clients a small preemptive boost when they first start (to aide fairness and improve interactivity). Now lets take one step further and give permission for all normal (priority:0) clients to preempt any idle (priority:<0) task so that users running long compute jobs do not overly impact other jobs (i.e. their desktop) and the system remains responsive under such idle loads. References: f6322edd ("drm/i915/preemption: Allow preemption between submission ports") References: b16c7651 ("drm/i915: Priority boost for new clients") Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Cc: Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com> Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com> Cc: "Bloomfield, Jon" <jon.bloomfield@intel.com> Cc: "Stead, Alan" <alan.stead@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190204084116.3013-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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