[PATCH 1/5] drm/sched:add new priority level

[Christian König]

Am 24.08.21 um 14:39 schrieb Das, Nirmoy:
>
> On 8/24/2021 2:07 PM, Christian König wrote:
>> Am 24.08.21 um 13:57 schrieb Das, Nirmoy:
>>> Hi Christian,
>>>
>>> On 8/24/2021 8:10 AM, Christian König wrote:
>>>> I haven't followed the previous discussion, but that looks like 
>>>> this change is based on a misunderstanding.
>>>
>>>
>>> In previous discussion I sort of suggested to have new DRM prio as I 
>>> didn't see any other way to map priority provided by the userspace 
>>> to this new 3rd hw priority.
>>>
>>> Do you think we should use other information from userspace like 
>>> queue id to determine hardware priority ?
>>
>> If I'm not completely mistaken we have dropped the concept of 
>> exposing multiple queues/instances completely.
>
>
> Yes, that is my understanding too.
>
>>
>> What we should probably do is to use the (cleaned up) UAPI enum for 
>> init_priority and override_priority instead of the drm scheduler enums.
>
>
> I went through the drm code, now I see what you mean. So what we are 
> now doing is:  mapping  AMDGPU_CTX_PRIORITY_*  to 
> DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_*  and then to hw priority which is not nice.
>
> We should rather map AMDGPU_CTX_PRIORITY_* to hw priority directly.

Exactly that's my idea, yes.

If you want feel free to put this on your TODO for a potential cleanup.

Christian.

>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nirmoy
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christian.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Nirmoy
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Those here are the software priorities used in the scheduler, but 
>>>> what you are working on are the hardware priorities.
>>>>
>>>> That are two completely different things which we shouldn't mix up.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Christian.
>>>>
>>>> Am 24.08.21 um 07:55 schrieb Satyajit Sahu:
>>>>> Adding a new priority level DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_VERY_HIGH
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Satyajit Sahu <satyajit.sahu at amd.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h | 1 +
>>>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h 
>>>>> b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
>>>>> index d18af49fd009..d0e5e234da5f 100644
>>>>> --- a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
>>>>> +++ b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
>>>>> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ enum drm_sched_priority {
>>>>>       DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_MIN,
>>>>>       DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_NORMAL,
>>>>>       DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_HIGH,
>>>>> +    DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_VERY_HIGH,
>>>>>       DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_KERNEL,
>>>>>         DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_COUNT,
>>>>
>>