[PATCH v6 11/11] Documentation: document adreno preemption

Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 01:10:31 UTC 2024


On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 11:16:53PM +0200, Antonino Maniscalco wrote:
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +:orphan:

Why don't this be added to toctree in Documentation/gpu/index.rst?

> +
> +=============
> +MSM Preemtion
> +=============
s/Preemtion/Preemption/


> +This mechanism can be used by the kernel to switch between rings. Whenever a
> +submission occurs the kernel finds the highest priority ring which isn't empty
> +and preempts to it if said ring is not the one being currently executed. This is
> +also done whenever a submission completes to make sure execution resumes on a
> +lower priority ring when a higher priority ring is done.

Do you mean that the kernel finds highest priority ring possible that is not
empty? What if all these 4 rings are empty?

Confused...

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