[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3] drm/i915/execlists: Set queue priority from secondary port

[Chris Wilson]

We can refine our current execlists->queue_priority if we inspect
ELSP[1] rather than the head of the unsubmitted queue. Currently, we use
the unsubmitted queue and say that if a subsequent request is more
important than the current queue, we will rerun the submission tasklet
to evaluate the need for preemption. However, we only want to preempt if
we need to jump ahead of a currently executing request in ELSP. The
second reason for running the submission tasklet is amalgamate requests
into the active context on ELSP[0] to avoid a stall when ELSP[0] drains.
(Though repeatedly amalgamating requests into the active context and
triggering many lite-restore is off question gain, the goal really is to
put a context into ELSP[1] to cover the interrupt.) So if instead of
looking at the head of the queue, we look at the context in ELSP[1] we
can answer both of the questions more accurately -- we don't need to
rerun the submission tasklet unless our new request is important enough
to feed into, at least, ELSP[1].

v2: Add some comments from the discussion with Tvrtko.
v3: More commentary to cross-reference queue_request()

References: f6322eddaff7 ("drm/i915/preemption: Allow preemption between submission ports")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski at intel.com>
Cc: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry at intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c |  3 +++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c       | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
index 12486d8f534b..a217b3fe5f0b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
@@ -1687,6 +1687,9 @@ void intel_engines_park(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
 			intel_engine_dump(engine, &p, NULL);
 		}
 
+		/* Must be reset upon idling, or we may miss the busy wakeup. */
+		GEM_BUG_ON(engine->execlists.queue_priority != INT_MIN);
+
 		if (engine->park)
 			engine->park(engine);
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index 02b25bf2378a..665d9e82e954 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -713,8 +713,27 @@ static void execlists_dequeue(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 		if (p->priority != I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL)
 			kmem_cache_free(engine->i915->priorities, p);
 	}
+
 done:
-	execlists->queue_priority = rb ? to_priolist(rb)->priority : INT_MIN;
+	/*
+	 * Here be a bit of magic! Or sleight-of-hand, whichever you prefer.
+	 *
+	 * We choose queue_priority such that if we add a request of greater
+	 * priority than this, we kick the submission tasklet to decide on
+	 * the right order of submitting the requests to hardware. We must
+	 * also be prepared to reorder requests as they are in-flight on the
+	 * HW. We derive the queue_priority then as the first "hole" in
+	 * the HW submission ports and if there are no available slots,
+	 * the priority of the lowest executing request, i.e. last.
+	 *
+	 * When we do receive a higher priority request ready to run from the
+	 * user, see queue_request(), the queue_priority is bumped to that
+	 * request triggering preemption on the next dequeue (or subsequent
+	 * interrupt for secondary ports).
+	 */
+	execlists->queue_priority =
+		port != execlists->port ? rq_prio(last) : INT_MIN;
+
 	execlists->first = rb;
 	if (submit)
 		port_assign(port, last);
-- 
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