[igt-dev] [RFC PATCH v6 0/4] new engine discovery interface

[Andi Shyti]

Hi,

In this patchset I propose an alternative way of engine discovery
thanks to the new interfaces developed by Tvrtko and Chris[4].

This rfc is still temporary as it waits for the kernel patches to
be applied first and a final version of i915_drm.h to be used.

Thanks Chris and Tvrtko for your comments in the previous RFCs.

V1 --> V2
=========
RFC v1: [1]
- added a demo test that simply queries the driver about the
  engines and executes a buffer (thanks Tvrtko)
- refactored the for_each_engine_ctx() macro so that what in the
  previous version was done by the "bind" function, now it's done
  in the first iteration. (Thanks Crhis)
- removed the "gem_has_ring_ctx()" because it was out of the
  scope.
- rename functions to more meaningful names

V2 --> V3
=========
RFC v2: [2]
- removed a standalone gem_query_engines_demo test and added the
  exec-ctx subtest inside gem_exec_basic (thanks Tvrtko).
- fixed most of Tvrtko's comments in [5], which consist in
  putting the mallocs igt_assert and ictls in igt_require and few
  refactoring (thanks Tvrtko).

V3 --> V4
=========
PATCH v3: [3]
- re-architectured the discovery mechanism based on Tvrtko's
  sugestion and reviews.. In this version the discovery is done
  during the device opening and stored in a NULL terminated
  array, which replaces the existing intel_execution_engines2
  that is mainly used as a reference.

V4 --> V5
=========
RFC v4: [6]
- the engine list is now built in 'igt_require_gem()' instead of
  '__open_driver()' so that we keep this discovery method specific
  to the i915 driver (thanks Chris).
- All the query/setparam structures dynamic allocation based on
  the number of engines, now are politically allocated 64 times,
  to avoid extra ioctl calls that retrieve the engine number
  (thanks Chris)
- use igt_ioctl instead of ioctl (thanks Chris)
- allocate intel_execution_engines2 dynamically instead of
  statically (thanks Tvrtko)
- simplify the test in 'gem_exec_basic()' so that simply checks
  the presence of the engine instead of executing a buffer
  (thank Chris)
- a new patch has been added (patch 3) that extends the
  'gem_has_ring()' boolean function. The new version sets the
  index as it's mapped in the kernel.The previous function is now
  a wrapper to the new function.

V5 --> V6
=========
RFC v5: [7]
- Chris implemented the getparam ioctl which allows to the test
  to figure otu whether the new interface has been implemented.
  This way the for_each_engine_ctx() is able to work with new and
  old kernel uapi (thanks Chris)

Andi

[1] RFC v1: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/igt-dev/2018-November/007025.html
[2] RFC v2: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/igt-dev/2018-November/007079.html
[3] PATCH v3: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/igt-dev/2018-November/007148.html
[4] git://people.freedesktop.org/~tursulin/drm-intel
[5] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/igt-dev/2018-November/007100.html
[6] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/igt-dev/2019-January/008029.html
[7] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/igt-dev/2019-January/008165.html

Andi Shyti (4):
  include/drm-uapi: import i915_drm.h header file
  lib: implement new engine discovery interface
  lib: ioctl_wrappers: reach engines by index as well
  tests: gem_exec_basic: add "exec-ctx" buffer execution demo test

 include/drm-uapi/i915_drm.h | 292 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 lib/igt_gt.c                | 110 +++++++++++++-
 lib/igt_gt.h                |  14 +-
 lib/ioctl_wrappers.c        |  13 +-
 lib/ioctl_wrappers.h        |   4 +-
 tests/i915/gem_exec_basic.c |  14 ++
 6 files changed, 368 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)

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