[Freedreno] [PATCH 0/3] drm/msm: kthread_worker conversion

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 02:10:50PM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> From: Rob Clark <robdclark at chromium.org>
> 
> In particular, converting the async atomic commit (for cursor updates,
> etc) to SCHED_FIFO kthread_worker helps with some cases where we
> wouldn't manage to flush the updates within the 1ms-before-vblank
> deadline resulting in fps drops when there is cursor movement.
> 
> Rob Clark (3):
>   drm/msm/gpu: Convert retire/recover work to kthread_worker
>   drm/msm/kms: Update msm_kms_init/destroy
>   drm/msm/atomic: Convert to per-CRTC kthread_work

So i915 has it's own commit worker already for $reasons, but I don't think
that's a good path to go down with more drivers. And the problem seems
entirely generic in nature ...
-Daniel

> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a5xx_gpu.c     |  3 +--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a5xx_preempt.c |  6 ++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gmu.c     |  4 +--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c     |  4 +--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_kms.c   |  8 +++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp4/mdp4_kms.c  |  8 +++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_kms.c  | 11 ++++++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp_kms.h        |  9 +++++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c          | 25 +++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h             |  3 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c             | 30 +++++++++++++++--------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.h             | 13 +++++++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_kms.h             | 23 ++++++++++++++---
>  13 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.26.2
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Daniel Vetter
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