__i915_spin_request() sucks

[Jens Axboe]

On 11/13/2015 03:12 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 09:22:52AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 11/13/2015 09:13 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2015-11-13 at 08:36 -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> Previous patch was obvious pre-coffee crap, this should work for using
>>>> ktime to spin max 1usec.
>>>
>>> 1us seems a tad low.  I doubt the little wooden gears and pulleys of my
>>> core2 Toshiba Satellite lappy can get one loop ground out in a usec :)
>>
>> Maybe it is, it's based off the original intent of the function,
>> though. See the original commit referenced.
>
> I've been looking at numbers from one laptop and I can set the timeout
> at 2us before we see a steep decline in what is more or less synchronous
> request handling (which affects a variety of rendering workloads).

Alright, at least that's a vast improvement from 10ms. If you send me 
something tested, I can try it here.

> Looking around, other busy loops seem to use local_clock() (i.e. rdstcll
> with a fair wind). Is that worth using here?

Honestly, don't think it matters too much for this case. You'd have to 
disable preempt to use local_clock(), fwiw. It is a faster variant 
though, but the RT people might hate you for 2us preempt disables :-)

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Jens Axboe