<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Christian König <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christian.koenig@amd.com" target="_blank">christian.koenig@amd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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See a wait_queue is a callback mechanism anyway,
so you are wrapping a callback mechanism inside
another callback mechanism and that makes not
really much sense.<br>
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<div>Fair enough. There is one little snag though: We
need to wait on sync objects and fences at the same
time in order for WAIT_ANY | WAIT_FOR_SUBMIT to work.
I see two options here:<br>
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<div> 1) Convert dma-fence to use waitqueue instead of
its callback mechanism and add a wait_queue_any. A
quick grep for dma_fence_add_callback says that this
would affect four drivers.<br>
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The more I think about it, the less sense using waitqueues
makes. The fundamental problem here is that the event we are
waiting on is actually the concatenation of two events: submit
and signal. Since we are waiting on several of these pairs of
concatenated events simultaneously, the only two options we have
are to either combine them into one event (the proxy approach)
or to implement a wait which is capable of handling both at the
same time. I don't see a way to do the latter with wait queues.<br>
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<div>Agree completely.<br>
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Essentially we would need to enable wait_event_* to wait for
multiple events and then convert all the fence callback stuff to
wait_event structures.<br>
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But that is certainly outside the scope of this patchset, so
feel free to go ahead with the approach of waiting manually (but
please without the bugs).<br>
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</blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Well, the patches I sent last night should do just that. It's mostly the original approach but with the bugfixes from versions 3 and 4. Modulo finding additional bugs, I think they should be good to go.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">--Jason<br></div></div>