[PATCH 09/51] drm/i915/guc: Disable engine barriers with GuC during unpin

Matthew Brost matthew.brost at intel.com
Fri Jul 16 20:16:42 UTC 2021


Disable engine barriers for unpinning with GuC. This feature isn't
needed with the GuC as it disables context scheduling before unpinning
which guarantees the HW will not reference the context. Hence it is
not necessary to defer unpinning until a kernel context request
completes on each engine in the context engine mask.

Cc: John Harrison <john.c.harrison at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_context.c    |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_context.c | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_context.c
index 3d5b4116617f..91349d071e0e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_context.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static int intel_context_active_acquire(struct intel_context *ce)
 
 	__i915_active_acquire(&ce->active);
 
-	if (intel_context_is_barrier(ce))
+	if (intel_context_is_barrier(ce) || intel_engine_uses_guc(ce->engine))
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Preallocate tracking nodes */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_context.c
index 26685b927169..fa7b99a671dd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_context.c
@@ -209,7 +209,13 @@ static int __live_active_context(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	 * This test makes sure that the context is kept alive until a
 	 * subsequent idle-barrier (emitted when the engine wakeref hits 0
 	 * with no more outstanding requests).
+	 *
+	 * In GuC submission mode we don't use idle barriers and we instead
+	 * get a message from the GuC to signal that it is safe to unpin the
+	 * context from memory.
 	 */
+	if (intel_engine_uses_guc(engine))
+		return 0;
 
 	if (intel_engine_pm_is_awake(engine)) {
 		pr_err("%s is awake before starting %s!\n",
@@ -357,7 +363,11 @@ static int __live_remote_context(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	 * on the context image remotely (intel_context_prepare_remote_request),
 	 * which inserts foreign fences into intel_context.active, does not
 	 * clobber the idle-barrier.
+	 *
+	 * In GuC submission mode we don't use idle barriers.
 	 */
+	if (intel_engine_uses_guc(engine))
+		return 0;
 
 	if (intel_engine_pm_is_awake(engine)) {
 		pr_err("%s is awake before starting %s!\n",
-- 
2.28.0



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