[RFC v4 04/16] drm/sched: Avoid double re-lock on the job free path

Tvrtko Ursulin tvrtko.ursulin at igalia.com
Fri Apr 25 10:20:22 UTC 2025


Currently the job free work item will lock sched->job_list_lock first time
to see if there are any jobs, free a single job, and then lock again to
decide whether to re-queue itself if there are more finished jobs.

Since drm_sched_get_finished_job() already looks at the second job in the
queue we can simply add the signaled check and have it return the presence
of more jobs to free to the caller. That way the work item does not have
to lock the list again and repeat the signaled check.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at igalia.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr at kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com>
Cc: Philipp Stanner <phasta at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 39 +++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
index 86e40157b09b..a45b02fd2af3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
@@ -365,22 +365,6 @@ static void __drm_sched_run_free_queue(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
 		queue_work(sched->submit_wq, &sched->work_free_job);
 }
 
-/**
- * drm_sched_run_free_queue - enqueue free-job work if ready
- * @sched: scheduler instance
- */
-static void drm_sched_run_free_queue(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
-{
-	struct drm_sched_job *job;
-
-	spin_lock(&sched->job_list_lock);
-	job = list_first_entry_or_null(&sched->pending_list,
-				       struct drm_sched_job, list);
-	if (job && dma_fence_is_signaled(&job->s_fence->finished))
-		__drm_sched_run_free_queue(sched);
-	spin_unlock(&sched->job_list_lock);
-}
-
 /**
  * drm_sched_job_done - complete a job
  * @s_job: pointer to the job which is done
@@ -1097,12 +1081,13 @@ drm_sched_select_entity(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
  * drm_sched_get_finished_job - fetch the next finished job to be destroyed
  *
  * @sched: scheduler instance
+ * @have_more: are there more finished jobs on the list
  *
  * Returns the next finished job from the pending list (if there is one)
  * ready for it to be destroyed.
  */
 static struct drm_sched_job *
-drm_sched_get_finished_job(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
+drm_sched_get_finished_job(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, bool *have_more)
 {
 	struct drm_sched_job *job, *next;
 
@@ -1110,22 +1095,27 @@ drm_sched_get_finished_job(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
 
 	job = list_first_entry_or_null(&sched->pending_list,
 				       struct drm_sched_job, list);
-
 	if (job && dma_fence_is_signaled(&job->s_fence->finished)) {
 		/* remove job from pending_list */
 		list_del_init(&job->list);
 
 		/* cancel this job's TO timer */
 		cancel_delayed_work(&sched->work_tdr);
-		/* make the scheduled timestamp more accurate */
+
+		*have_more = false;
 		next = list_first_entry_or_null(&sched->pending_list,
 						typeof(*next), list);
-
 		if (next) {
+			/* make the scheduled timestamp more accurate */
 			if (test_bit(DMA_FENCE_FLAG_TIMESTAMP_BIT,
 				     &next->s_fence->scheduled.flags))
 				next->s_fence->scheduled.timestamp =
 					dma_fence_timestamp(&job->s_fence->finished);
+
+			if (test_bit(DMA_FENCE_FLAG_SIGNALED_BIT,
+				     &next->s_fence->finished.flags))
+				*have_more = true;
+
 			/* start TO timer for next job */
 			drm_sched_start_timeout(sched);
 		}
@@ -1184,12 +1174,15 @@ static void drm_sched_free_job_work(struct work_struct *w)
 	struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched =
 		container_of(w, struct drm_gpu_scheduler, work_free_job);
 	struct drm_sched_job *job;
+	bool have_more;
 
-	job = drm_sched_get_finished_job(sched);
-	if (job)
+	job = drm_sched_get_finished_job(sched, &have_more);
+	if (job) {
 		sched->ops->free_job(job);
+		if (have_more)
+			__drm_sched_run_free_queue(sched);
+	}
 
-	drm_sched_run_free_queue(sched);
 	drm_sched_run_job_queue(sched);
 }
 
-- 
2.48.0



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