[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 2/6] include/drm-uapi: Update i915_drm.h for perf OA APIs

Umesh Nerlige Ramappa umesh.nerlige.ramappa at intel.com
Tue Mar 3 22:38:09 UTC 2020


From: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin at intel.com>

Add APIs to enable/disable interrupts in perf OA.

Signed-off-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Umesh Nerlige Ramappa <umesh.nerlige.ramappa at intel.com>
---
 include/drm-uapi/i915_drm.h | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/drm-uapi/i915_drm.h b/include/drm-uapi/i915_drm.h
index 3794e768..fca6ab4d 100644
--- a/include/drm-uapi/i915_drm.h
+++ b/include/drm-uapi/i915_drm.h
@@ -1969,6 +1969,26 @@ enum drm_i915_perf_property_id {
 	 */
 	DRM_I915_PERF_PROP_HOLD_PREEMPTION,
 
+	/**
+	 * Specifying this property sets up a hrtimer in nanoseconds at which
+	 * the i915 driver will check the OA buffer for available data. A
+	 * value of 0 means no hrtimer will be started. Values below 100
+	 * microseconds are not allowed.
+	 *
+	 * This property is available in perf revision 4.
+	 */
+	DRM_I915_PERF_PROP_POLL_OA_DELAY,
+
+	/**
+	 * Specifying this property sets up the interrupt mechanism for the OA
+	 * buffer in i915. This option in conjuction with a long polling delay
+	 * for avaibility of OA data can reduce CPU load significantly if you
+	 * do not care about OA data being read as soon as it's available.
+	 *
+	 * This property is available in perf revision 5.
+	 */
+	DRM_I915_PERF_PROP_OA_ENABLE_INTERRUPT,
+
 	DRM_I915_PERF_PROP_MAX /* non-ABI */
 };
 
@@ -2024,6 +2044,27 @@ struct drm_i915_perf_open_param {
  */
 #define I915_PERF_IOCTL_CONFIG	_IO('i', 0x2)
 
+/**
+ * Actively check the availability of data from a stream.
+ *
+ * A stream data availability can be driven by two types of events :
+ *
+ *   - if enabled, the kernel's hrtimer checking the amount of available data
+ *     in the OA buffer through head/tail registers.
+ *
+ *   - if enabled, the OA unit's interrupt mechanism
+ *
+ * The kernel hrtimer incur a cost of running callback at fixed time
+ * intervals, while the OA interrupt might only happen rarely. In the
+ * situation where the application has disabled the kernel's hrtimer and only
+ * uses the OA interrupt to know about available data, the application can
+ * request an active check of the available OA data through this ioctl. This
+ * will make any data in the OA buffer available with either poll() or read().
+ *
+ * This ioctl is available in perf revision 6.
+ */
+#define I915_PERF_IOCTL_FLUSH_DATA _IO('i', 0x3)
+
 /**
  * Common to all i915 perf records
  */
-- 
2.20.1



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