[PATCH 1/9] drm/i915: Speed up idle detection by kicking the tasklets

[Chris Wilson]

We rely on ksoftirqd to run in a timely fashion in order to drain the
execlists queue. Quite frequently, it does not. In some cases we may see
latencies of over 200ms triggering our idle timeouts and forcing us to
declare the driver wedged!

Thus we can speed up idle detection by bypassing ksoftirqd in these
cases and flush our tasklet to confirm if we are indeed still waiting
for the ELSP to drain.

v2: Put the execlists.first check back; it is required for handling
reset!

References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106373
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
index 70325e0824e3..a3111511ea1d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
@@ -945,10 +945,19 @@ bool intel_engine_is_idle(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 		return true;
 
 	/* Waiting to drain ELSP? */
-	if (READ_ONCE(engine->execlists.active))
-		return false;
+	if (READ_ONCE(engine->execlists.active)) {
+		struct intel_engine_execlists *execlists = &engine->execlists;
+
+		if (tasklet_trylock(&execlists->tasklet)) {
+			execlists->tasklet.func(execlists->tasklet.data);
+			tasklet_unlock(&execlists->tasklet);
+		}
+
+		if (READ_ONCE(execlists->active))
+			return false;
+	}
 
-	/* ELSP is empty, but there are ready requests? */
+	/* ELSP is empty, but there are ready requests? E.g. after reset */
 	if (READ_ONCE(engine->execlists.first))
 		return false;
 
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