[PATCH] drm/i915: Hack and slash, throttle execbuffer hogs

[Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>]

Apply backpressure to hogs that emit requests faster than the GPU can
process them by waiting for their ring to be less than half-full before
proceeding with taking the struct_mutex.

This is a gross hack to apply throttling backpressure, the long term
goal is to remove the struct_mutex contention so that each client
naturally waits, preferably in an asynchronous, nonblocking fashion
(pipelined operations for the win), for their own resources and never
blocks another client within the driver at least. (Realtime priority
goals would extend to ensuring that resource contention favours high
priority clients as well.)

This patch only limits excessive request production and does not attempt
to throttle clients that block waiting for eviction (either global GTT or
system memory) or any other global resources, see above for the long term
goal.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
---
Acquire the struct_mutex first then drop it for the wait. This means
that we keep a rpm wakeref across the sleep reducing subsequent latency.
Oh for splitting up i915_request_alloc() so that we can do the global
operations like reserve_gt() and keep the GT awake while we sleep on it
being busy etc.
-Chris
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c    | 13 -----
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h    | 12 +++++
 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index 8eedf7cac493..84ef3abc567e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -753,6 +753,64 @@ static int eb_select_context(struct i915_execbuffer *eb)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static struct i915_request *__eb_wait_for_ring(struct intel_ring *ring)
+{
+	struct i915_request *rq;
+
+	if (intel_ring_update_space(ring) >= PAGE_SIZE)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Find a request that after waiting upon, there will be at least half
+	 * the ring available. The hystersis allows us to compete for the
+	 * shared ring and should mean that we sleep less often prior to
+	 * claiming our resources, but not so long that the ring completely
+	 * drains before we can submit our next request.
+	 */
+	list_for_each_entry(rq, &ring->request_list, ring_link) {
+		if (__intel_ring_space(rq->postfix,
+				       ring->emit, ring->size) > ring->size / 2)
+			break;
+	}
+	if (&rq->ring_link == &ring->request_list)
+		return NULL; /* weird, we will check again later for real */
+
+	return i915_request_get(rq);
+}
+
+static int eb_wait_for_ring(const struct i915_execbuffer *eb)
+{
+	const struct intel_context *ce;
+	struct i915_request *rq;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * Apply a light amount of backpressure to prevent excessive hogs
+	 * from blocking waiting for space whilst holding struct_mutex and
+	 * keeping all of their resources pinned.
+	 */
+
+	ce = to_intel_context(eb->ctx, eb->engine);
+	if (!ce->ring) /* first use, assume empty! */
+		return 0;
+
+	rq = __eb_wait_for_ring(ce->ring);
+	if (rq) {
+		mutex_unlock(&eb->i915->drm.struct_mutex);
+
+		if (i915_request_wait(rq,
+				      I915_WAIT_INTERRUPTIBLE,
+				      MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT) < 0)
+			ret = -EINTR;
+
+		i915_request_put(rq);
+
+		mutex_lock(&eb->i915->drm.struct_mutex);
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static int eb_lookup_vmas(struct i915_execbuffer *eb)
 {
 	struct radix_tree_root *handles_vma = &eb->ctx->handles_vma;
@@ -2291,6 +2349,10 @@ i915_gem_do_execbuffer(struct drm_device *dev,
 	if (err)
 		goto err_rpm;
 
+	err = eb_wait_for_ring(&eb); /* may temporarily drop struct_mutex */
+	if (unlikely(err))
+		goto err_unlock;
+
 	err = eb_relocate(&eb);
 	if (err) {
 		/*
@@ -2435,6 +2497,7 @@ i915_gem_do_execbuffer(struct drm_device *dev,
 err_vma:
 	if (eb.exec)
 		eb_release_vmas(&eb);
+err_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
 err_rpm:
 	intel_runtime_pm_put(eb.i915, wakeref);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index b889b27f8aeb..7f841dba87b3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -49,19 +49,6 @@ static inline u32 intel_hws_seqno_address(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 		I915_GEM_HWS_INDEX_ADDR);
 }
 
-static unsigned int __intel_ring_space(unsigned int head,
-				       unsigned int tail,
-				       unsigned int size)
-{
-	/*
-	 * "If the Ring Buffer Head Pointer and the Tail Pointer are on the
-	 * same cacheline, the Head Pointer must not be greater than the Tail
-	 * Pointer."
-	 */
-	GEM_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(size));
-	return (head - tail - CACHELINE_BYTES) & (size - 1);
-}
-
 unsigned int intel_ring_update_space(struct intel_ring *ring)
 {
 	unsigned int space;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
index 1398eb81dee6..4454e4c94de8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
@@ -831,6 +831,18 @@ intel_ring_set_tail(struct intel_ring *ring, unsigned int tail)
 	return tail;
 }
 
+static inline unsigned int
+__intel_ring_space(unsigned int head, unsigned int tail, unsigned int size)
+{
+	/*
+	 * "If the Ring Buffer Head Pointer and the Tail Pointer are on the
+	 * same cacheline, the Head Pointer must not be greater than the Tail
+	 * Pointer."
+	 */
+	GEM_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(size));
+	return (head - tail - CACHELINE_BYTES) & (size - 1);
+}
+
 void intel_engine_write_global_seqno(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, u32 seqno);
 
 int intel_engine_setup_common(struct intel_engine_cs *engine);
-- 
2.20.1

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