[PATCH v3 0/9] dma-fence: Deadline awareness

[Rob Clark]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 9:16 AM Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, would it be reasonable to allow user-space (more
> precisely, the compositor) to set the deadline via an IOCTL without
> actually performing an atomic commit with the FB?
>
> Some compositors might want to wait themselves for FB fence completions
> to ensure a client doesn't block the whole desktop (by submitting a
> very costly rendering job). In this case it would make sense for the
> compositor to indicate that it intends to display the buffer on next
> vblank if it's ready by that point, without queueing a page-flip yet.

Yes, I think it would.. and "dma-buf/sync_file: Add SET_DEADLINE
ioctl" adds such an ioctl.. just for the benefit of igt tests at this
point, but the thought was it would be also used by compositors that
are doing such frame scheduling.  Ofc danvet is a bit grumpy that
there isn't a more real (than igt) userspace for the ioctl yet ;-)

BR,
-R