[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v5 12/35] drm/i915: Added deferred work handler for scheduler

Joonas Lahtinen joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com
Tue Mar 1 09:16:10 UTC 2016


On to, 2016-02-18 at 14:27 +0000, John.C.Harrison at Intel.com wrote:
> From: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
> 
> The scheduler needs to do interrupt triggered work that is too complex
> to do in the interrupt handler. Thus it requires a deferred work
> handler to process such tasks asynchronously.
> 
> v2: Updated to reduce mutex lock usage. The lock is now only held for
> the minimum time within the remove function rather than for the whole
> of the worker thread's operation.
> 
> v5: Removed objectionable white space and added some documentation.
> [Joonas Lahtinen]
> 
> For: VIZ-1587
> Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c       |  3 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h       | 10 ++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c       |  2 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> index 678adc7..c3d382d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> @@ -1158,6 +1158,9 @@ int i915_driver_unload(struct drm_device *dev)
>  	WARN_ON(unregister_oom_notifier(&dev_priv->mm.oom_notifier));
>  	unregister_shrinker(&dev_priv->mm.shrinker);
>  
> +	/* Cancel the scheduler work handler, which should be idle now. */
> +	cancel_work_sync(&dev_priv->mm.scheduler_work);
> +
>  	io_mapping_free(dev_priv->gtt.mappable);
>  	arch_phys_wc_del(dev_priv->gtt.mtrr);
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index 03add1a..4d544f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -1291,6 +1291,16 @@ struct i915_gem_mm {
>  	struct delayed_work retire_work;
>  
>  	/**
> +	 * New scheme is to get an interrupt after every work packet
> +	 * in order to allow the low latency scheduling of pending
> +	 * packets. The idea behind adding new packets to a pending
> +	 * queue rather than directly into the hardware ring buffer
> +	 * is to allow high priority packets to over take low priority
> +	 * ones.
> +	 */
> +	struct work_struct scheduler_work;
> +
> +	/**
>  	 * When we detect an idle GPU, we want to turn on
>  	 * powersaving features. So once we see that there
>  	 * are no more requests outstanding and no more
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index c3b7def..1ab7256 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -5427,6 +5427,8 @@ i915_gem_load(struct drm_device *dev)
>  			  i915_gem_retire_work_handler);
>  	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&dev_priv->mm.idle_work,
>  			  i915_gem_idle_work_handler);
> +	INIT_WORK(&dev_priv->mm.scheduler_work,
> +				i915_scheduler_work_handler);
>  	init_waitqueue_head(&dev_priv->gpu_error.reset_queue);
>  
>  	dev_priv->relative_constants_mode = I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_REL_GENERAL;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
> index ab5007a..3986890 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
> @@ -697,7 +697,9 @@ static int i915_scheduler_remove_dependent(struct i915_scheduler *scheduler,
>   */
>  void i915_scheduler_wakeup(struct drm_device *dev)
>  {
> -	/* XXX: Need to call i915_scheduler_remove() via work handler. */
> +	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(dev);
> +
> +	queue_work(dev_priv->wq, &dev_priv->mm.scheduler_work);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -827,7 +829,7 @@ static bool i915_scheduler_remove(struct i915_scheduler *scheduler,
>  	return do_submit;
>  }
>  
> -void i915_scheduler_process_work(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
> +static void i915_scheduler_process_work(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)

This is an odd change, maybe should have been static void to begin
with?

>  {
>  	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = ring->dev->dev_private;
>  	struct i915_scheduler *scheduler = dev_priv->scheduler;
> @@ -874,6 +876,29 @@ void i915_scheduler_process_work(struct intel_engine_cs *ring)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> + * i915_scheduler_work_handler - scheduler's work handler callback.
> + * @work: Work structure
> + * A lot of the scheduler's work must be done asynchronously in response to
> + * an interrupt or other event. However, that work cannot be done at
> + * interrupt time or in the context of the event signaller (which might in
> + * fact be an interrupt). Thus a worker thread is required. This function
> + * will cause the thread to wake up and do its processing.
> + */
> +void i915_scheduler_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
> +{
> +	struct intel_engine_cs *ring;
> +	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv;
> +	struct drm_device *dev;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	dev_priv = container_of(work, struct drm_i915_private, mm.scheduler_work);
> +	dev = dev_priv->dev;

dev is unused variable?

With those changes,

Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>

> +
> +	for_each_ring(ring, dev_priv, i)
> +		i915_scheduler_process_work(ring);
> +}
> +
> +/**
>   * i915_scheduler_closefile - notify the scheduler that a DRM file handle
>   * has been closed.
>   * @dev: DRM device
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
> index 0e8b6a9..180d75f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
> @@ -93,5 +93,6 @@ void i915_scheduler_clean_node(struct i915_scheduler_queue_entry *node);
>  int i915_scheduler_queue_execbuffer(struct i915_scheduler_queue_entry *qe);
>  bool i915_scheduler_notify_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req);
>  void i915_scheduler_wakeup(struct drm_device *dev);
> +void i915_scheduler_work_handler(struct work_struct *work);
>  
>  #endif  /* _I915_SCHEDULER_H_ */
-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation


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