[CI] drm/i915: Only reschedule the submission tasklet if preemption is possible

* [CI] drm/i915: Only reschedule the submission tasklet if preemption is possible
@ 2019-05-07 12:25 Chris Wilson
  2019-05-07 14:27 ` ✗ Fi.CI.SPARSE: warning for " Patchwork
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Chris Wilson @ 2019-05-07 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: intel-gfx

If we couple the scheduler more tightly with the execlists policy, we
can apply the preemption policy to the question of whether we need to
kick the tasklet at all for this priority bump.

v2: Rephrase it as a core i915 policy and not an execlists foible.
v3: Pull the kick together.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h      | 18 -----------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c         |  4 +--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_lrc.c      |  7 ++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c         |  2 --
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c       | 34 ++++++++++++---------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h       | 18 +++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_submission.c |  3 +-
 7 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
index f5b0f27cecb6..06d785533502 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
@@ -106,24 +106,6 @@ hangcheck_action_to_str(const enum intel_engine_hangcheck_action a)
 
 void intel_engines_set_scheduler_caps(struct drm_i915_private *i915);
 
-static inline bool __execlists_need_preempt(int prio, int last)
-{
-	/*
-	 * Allow preemption of low -> normal -> high, but we do
-	 * not allow low priority tasks to preempt other low priority
-	 * tasks under the impression that latency for low priority
-	 * tasks does not matter (as much as background throughput),
-	 * so kiss.
-	 *
-	 * More naturally we would write
-	 *	prio >= max(0, last);
-	 * except that we wish to prevent triggering preemption at the same
-	 * priority level: the task that is running should remain running
-	 * to preserve FIFO ordering of dependencies.
-	 */
-	return prio > max(I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL - 1, last);
-}
-
 static inline void
 execlists_set_active(struct intel_engine_execlists *execlists,
 		     unsigned int bit)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
index 5580b6f1aa0c..636df21983dd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
@@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ static inline bool need_preempt(const struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 	 * ourselves, ignore the request.
 	 */
 	last_prio = effective_prio(rq);
-	if (!__execlists_need_preempt(engine->execlists.queue_priority_hint,
-				      last_prio))
+	if (!i915_scheduler_need_preempt(engine->execlists.queue_priority_hint,
+					 last_prio))
 		return false;
 
 	/*
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_lrc.c
index 84538f69185b..4b042893dc0e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_lrc.c
@@ -638,14 +638,19 @@ static struct i915_request *dummy_request(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	GEM_BUG_ON(i915_request_completed(rq));
 
 	i915_sw_fence_init(&rq->submit, dummy_notify);
-	i915_sw_fence_commit(&rq->submit);
+	set_bit(I915_FENCE_FLAG_ACTIVE, &rq->fence.flags);
 
 	return rq;
 }
 
 static void dummy_request_free(struct i915_request *dummy)
 {
+	/* We have to fake the CS interrupt to kick the next request */
+	i915_sw_fence_commit(&dummy->submit);
+
 	i915_request_mark_complete(dummy);
+	dma_fence_signal(&dummy->fence);
+
 	i915_sched_node_fini(&dummy->sched);
 	i915_sw_fence_fini(&dummy->submit);
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
index e0be00c07c24..fa955b7b6def 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
@@ -1415,9 +1415,7 @@ long i915_request_wait(struct i915_request *rq,
 	if (flags & I915_WAIT_PRIORITY) {
 		if (!i915_request_started(rq) && INTEL_GEN(rq->i915) >= 6)
 			gen6_rps_boost(rq);
-		local_bh_disable(); /* suspend tasklets for reprioritisation */
 		i915_schedule_bump_priority(rq, I915_PRIORITY_WAIT);
-		local_bh_enable(); /* kick tasklets en masse */
 	}
 
 	wait.tsk = current;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
index 39bc4f54e272..ec22c3fe7360 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
@@ -261,16 +261,27 @@ sched_lock_engine(const struct i915_sched_node *node,
 	return engine;
 }
 
-static bool inflight(const struct i915_request *rq,
-		     const struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
+static inline int rq_prio(const struct i915_request *rq)
 {
-	const struct i915_request *active;
+	return rq->sched.attr.priority | __NO_PREEMPTION;
+}
+
+static void kick_submission(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, int prio)
+{
+	const struct i915_request *inflight =
+		port_request(engine->execlists.port);
 
-	if (!i915_request_is_active(rq))
-		return false;
+	/*
+	 * If we are already the currently executing context, don't
+	 * bother evaluating if we should preempt ourselves, or if
+	 * we expect nothing to change as a result of running the
+	 * tasklet, i.e. we have not change the priority queue
+	 * sufficiently to oust the running context.
+	 */
+	if (inflight && !i915_scheduler_need_preempt(prio, rq_prio(inflight)))
+		return;
 
-	active = port_request(engine->execlists.port);
-	return active->hw_context == rq->hw_context;
+	tasklet_hi_schedule(&engine->execlists.tasklet);
 }
 
 static void __i915_schedule(struct i915_request *rq,
@@ -396,15 +407,8 @@ static void __i915_schedule(struct i915_request *rq,
 
 		engine->execlists.queue_priority_hint = prio;
 
-		/*
-		 * If we are already the currently executing context, don't
-		 * bother evaluating if we should preempt ourselves.
-		 */
-		if (inflight(node_to_request(node), engine))
-			continue;
-
 		/* Defer (tasklet) submission until after all of our updates. */
-		tasklet_hi_schedule(&engine->execlists.tasklet);
+		kick_submission(engine, prio);
 	}
 
 	spin_unlock(&engine->timeline.lock);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
index 07d243acf553..7eefccff39bf 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
@@ -52,4 +52,22 @@ static inline void i915_priolist_free(struct i915_priolist *p)
 		__i915_priolist_free(p);
 }
 
+static inline bool i915_scheduler_need_preempt(int prio, int active)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Allow preemption of low -> normal -> high, but we do
+	 * not allow low priority tasks to preempt other low priority
+	 * tasks under the impression that latency for low priority
+	 * tasks does not matter (as much as background throughput),
+	 * so kiss.
+	 *
+	 * More naturally we would write
+	 *	prio >= max(0, last);
+	 * except that we wish to prevent triggering preemption at the same
+	 * priority level: the task that is running should remain running
+	 * to preserve FIFO ordering of dependencies.
+	 */
+	return prio > max(I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL - 1, active);
+}
+
 #endif /* _I915_SCHEDULER_H_ */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_submission.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_submission.c
index 57ed1dd4ae41..380d83a2bfb6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_submission.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_submission.c
@@ -747,7 +747,8 @@ static bool __guc_dequeue(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 				&engine->i915->guc.preempt_work[engine->id];
 			int prio = execlists->queue_priority_hint;
 
-			if (__execlists_need_preempt(prio, port_prio(port))) {
+			if (i915_scheduler_need_preempt(prio,
+							port_prio(port))) {
 				execlists_set_active(execlists,
 						     EXECLISTS_ACTIVE_PREEMPT);
 				queue_work(engine->i915->guc.preempt_wq,
-- 
2.20.1

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