[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Limit the busy wait on requests to 2us not 10ms!

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/12/621
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
> Cc; "Rogozhkin, Dmitry V" <dmitry.v.rogozhkin at intel.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen at intel.com>
> Cc: "Rantala, Valtteri" <valtteri.rantala at intel.com>
> Cc: stable at kernel.vger.org
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index 740530c571d1..2a88158bd1f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -1146,14 +1146,36 @@ static bool missed_irq(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv,
>  	return test_bit(ring->id, &dev_priv->gpu_error.missed_irq_rings);
>  }
>  
> +static u64 local_clock_us(unsigned *cpu)
> +{
> +	u64 t;
> +
> +	*cpu = get_cpu();
> +	t = local_clock() >> 10;
> +	put_cpu();
> +
> +	return t;
> +}
> +
> +static bool busywait_stop(u64 timeout, unsigned cpu)
> +{
> +	unsigned this_cpu;
> +
> +	if (time_after64(local_clock_us(&this_cpu), timeout))
> +		return true;
> +
> +	return this_cpu != cpu;
> +}

Perhaps you want to ask the timekeeping people for the right
primitive? I guess you are not the only one needing this..
									Pavel
									
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