[PATCH 20/88] drm/i915: Stop setting wraparound seqno on initialisation

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Apr 18 22:44:59 UTC 2016


We have testcases to ensure that seqno wraparound works fine, so we can
forgo forcing everyone to encounter seqno wraparound during early
uptime. seqno wraparound incurs a full GPU stall so not forcing it
will eliminate one jitter from the early system. Using the testcases, we
have very deterministic testing which given how difficult it would be to
debug an issue (GPU hang) stemming from a wraparound using pure
postmortem analysis I see no value in forcing a wrap during boot.

Advancing the global next_seqno after a GPU reset is equally pointless.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 16 ----------------
 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index cb7c8363fb70..c87d7bab04a8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -4887,14 +4887,6 @@ i915_gem_init_hw(struct drm_device *dev)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Increment the next seqno by 0x100 so we have a visible break
-	 * on re-initialisation
-	 */
-	ret = i915_gem_set_seqno(dev, dev_priv->next_seqno+0x100);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
-
 	/* Now it is safe to go back round and do everything else: */
 	for_each_engine(engine, dev_priv) {
 		struct drm_i915_gem_request *req;
@@ -5086,14 +5078,6 @@ i915_gem_load_init(struct drm_device *dev)
 
 	dev_priv->relative_constants_mode = I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_REL_GENERAL;
 
-	/*
-	 * Set initial sequence number for requests.
-	 * Using this number allows the wraparound to happen early,
-	 * catching any obvious problems.
-	 */
-	dev_priv->next_seqno = ((u32)~0 - 0x1100);
-	dev_priv->last_seqno = ((u32)~0 - 0x1101);
-
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev_priv->mm.fence_list);
 
 	init_waitqueue_head(&dev_priv->pending_flip_queue);
-- 
2.8.0.rc3



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