[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Stop retiring requests from busy-ioctl

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On 12/05/16 11:25, Chris Wilson wrote:
> In order to reduce the workload of the caller, we do not want to
> actually have to retire requests of others when checking the status of
> this object.

Wrt the subject, and from wait ioctl as well.

Also i915_gem_object_sync / i915_gem_execbuffer_move_to_gpu path 
(execbuf) looks like it could still do the upto retiring so that isn't 
only moving the thing around?

And in general, commit does not say who was impacted by this and how much?

Regards,

Tvrtko

>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 8 +-------
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> index 8439867..474c027 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> @@ -3069,14 +3069,8 @@ i915_gem_object_flush_active(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
>   		if (req == NULL)
>   			continue;
>
> -		if (list_empty(&req->list))
> -			goto retire;
> -
> -		if (i915_gem_request_completed(req, true)) {
> -			__i915_gem_request_retire__upto(req);
> -retire:
> +		if (i915_gem_request_completed(req, true))
>   			i915_gem_object_retire__read(obj, i);
> -		}
>   	}
>
>   	return 0;
>