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From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: "Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] dma-buf: fix busy wait for new shared fences
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 19:57:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <156511785146.6198.12664699085110516720@skylake-alporthouse-com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806150134.104222-1-christian.koenig@amd.com>

Quoting Christian König (2019-08-06 16:01:27)
> When reservation_object_add_shared_fence is replacing an old fence with a new
> one we should not drop the old one before the new one is in place.
> 
> Otherwise other cores can busy wait for the new one to appear.

I see. The reader will see a refcount==0 fence and restart, whereas by
dropping the ref later, that reader has a better chance of getting to
the end before noticing the change.

> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-06 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-06 15:01 [PATCH 1/8] dma-buf: fix busy wait for new shared fences Christian König
2019-08-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 2/8] dma-buf: fix shared fence list handling in reservation_object_copy_fences Christian König
2019-08-06 19:06   ` Chris Wilson
2019-08-07 10:43     ` Christian König
2019-08-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 3/8] drm/i915: stop using seqcount for fenc pruning Christian König
2019-08-06 19:07   ` Chris Wilson
2019-08-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 4/8] drm/i915: use new reservation_object_fences helper Christian König
2019-08-06 19:09   ` Chris Wilson
2019-08-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 5/8] dma-buf: further relax reservation_object_add_shared_fence Christian König
2019-08-06 19:25   ` Chris Wilson
2019-08-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 6/8] dma-buf: simplify reservation_object_get_fences_rcu a bit Christian König
2019-08-06 19:11   ` Chris Wilson
2019-08-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 7/8] dma-buf: add reservation_object_fences helper Christian König
2019-08-06 19:24   ` Chris Wilson
2019-08-07  9:06     ` Christian König
2019-08-06 15:01 ` [PATCH 8/8] dma-buf: nuke reservation_object seq number Christian König
2019-08-06 19:57   ` Chris Wilson
2019-08-07 12:08     ` Christian König
2019-08-07 12:19       ` Chris Wilson
2019-08-07 13:05         ` Koenig, Christian
2019-08-06 18:57 ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2019-08-09 13:27 ` ✗ Fi.CI.BAT: failure for series starting with [1/8] dma-buf: fix busy wait for new shared fences Patchwork

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