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Commit 6b567085 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915: Remove the spin-request during execbuf await_request



Originally we would enable and disable the breadcrumb interrupt
immediately on demand. This was slow enough to have a large impact
(>30%) on tasks that hopped between engines. However, by using a shadow
to keep the irq alive for an extra interrupt (see commit 67b807a8
("drm/i915: Delay disabling the user interrupt for breadcrumbs")) and
by recently reducing the cost in adding ourselves to the signal tree, we
no longer need to spin-request during await_request to avoid delays in
throughput tests. Without the earlier patches to stop the wakeup when
signaling if the irq was already active, we saw no improvement in
execbuf overhead (and corresponding contention in other clients) despite
the removal of the spinner in a simple test like glxgears. This means
there will be scenarios where now we spend longer enabling the interrupt
than we would have spent spinning, but these are not likely to have as
noticeable an impact as the high frequency test cases (where there
should not be any regression).

Ulterior motive: generalising the engine->sync_to to handle different
types of semaphores and non-semaphores.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJoonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170608111405.16466-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
parent 735e0eb6
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