[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3] drm/i915: Queue page flip work via a low latency, unbound workqueue

[Imre Deak]

While user space has control over the scheduling priority of its page
flipping thread, the corresponding work the driver schedules for MMIO
flips always runs from the generic system workqueue which has some
scheduling overhead due it being CPU bound. This would hinder an
application that wants more stringent guarantees over flip timing (to
avoid missing a flip at the next frame count).

Fix this by scheduling the work from the unbound system workqueue
which provides for minimal scheduling latency.

v2:
- Use an unbound workqueue instead of a high-prio one. (Tvrtko, Chris)
v3:
- Use the system unbound wq instead of a dedicated one. (Maarten)

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97775
Testcase: igt/kms_cursor_legacy
CC: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
CC: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
CC: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com> (v1)
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index 7bb7874..8da9f3c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -12266,7 +12266,7 @@ static int intel_crtc_page_flip(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
 
 		work->flip_queued_req = i915_gem_active_get(&obj->last_write,
 							    &obj->base.dev->struct_mutex);
-		schedule_work(&work->mmio_work);
+		queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &work->mmio_work);
 	} else {
 		request = i915_gem_request_alloc(engine, engine->last_context);
 		if (IS_ERR(request)) {
-- 
2.5.0