[Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH] dma-buf: avoid scheduling on fence status query v2

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 09:47:49AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On 28 April 2017 at 07:27, Gustavo Padovan <gustavo at padovan.org> wrote:
> > 2017-04-26 Christian König <deathsimple at vodafone.de>:
> >
> >> Am 26.04.2017 um 16:46 schrieb Andres Rodriguez:
> >> > When a timeout of zero is specified, the caller is only interested in
> >> > the fence status.
> >> >
> >> > In the current implementation, dma_fence_default_wait will always call
> >> > schedule_timeout() at least once for an unsignaled fence. This adds a
> >> > significant overhead to a fence status query.
> >> >
> >> > Avoid this overhead by returning early if a zero timeout is specified.
> >> >
> >> > v2: move early return after enable_signaling
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Andres Rodriguez <andresx7 at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> >
> > pushed to drm-misc-next. Thanks all.
> 
> I don't see this patch in -rc2, where did it end up going?

Queued for 4.13. Makes imo sense since it's just a performance
improvement, not a clear bugfix. But it's in your drm-next, so if you want
to fast-track you can cherry-pick it over:

commit 03c0c5f6641533f5fc14bf4e76d2304197402552
Author: Andres Rodriguez <andresx7 at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 26 10:46:20 2017 -0400

    dma-buf: avoid scheduling on fence status query v2

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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