[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/execlists: Split the atomic test_and_clear_bit for irq handler

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Mar 21 11:33:20 UTC 2017


Rather than impose the cost of a locked test before queuing a new
request, reduce it to a simple test_bit() with a following clear_bit()
prior to doing the CSB check. This ensure that if an interrupt does
occur whilst reading from the CSB, we still detect it (the interrupt
would trigger a rescheduling of the tasklet anyway).

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index 296d125d8665..3154b98dc971 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -530,13 +530,18 @@ static void intel_lrc_irq_handler(unsigned long data)
 
 	intel_uncore_forcewake_get(dev_priv, engine->fw_domains);
 
-	while (test_and_clear_bit(ENGINE_IRQ_EXECLIST, &engine->irq_posted)) {
+	/* Prefer doing test_and_clear_bit() as a two stage operation to avoid
+	 * imposing the cost of a locked atomic transaction when submitting a
+	 * new request (outside of the context-switch interrupt).
+	 */
+	while (test_bit(ENGINE_IRQ_EXECLIST, &engine->irq_posted)) {
 		u32 __iomem *csb_mmio =
 			dev_priv->regs + i915_mmio_reg_offset(RING_CONTEXT_STATUS_PTR(engine));
 		u32 __iomem *buf =
 			dev_priv->regs + i915_mmio_reg_offset(RING_CONTEXT_STATUS_BUF_LO(engine, 0));
 		unsigned int csb, head, tail;
 
+		clear_bit(ENGINE_IRQ_EXECLIST, &engine->irq_posted);
 		csb = readl(csb_mmio);
 		head = GEN8_CSB_READ_PTR(csb);
 		tail = GEN8_CSB_WRITE_PTR(csb);
-- 
2.11.0



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