[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/6] drm/i915: Priority boost for new clients

[Chris Wilson]

Taken from an idea used for FQ_CODEL, we give new request flows a
priority boost. These flows are likely to correspond with interactive
tasks and so be more latency sensitive than the long queues. As soon as
the client has more than one request in the queue, further requests are
not boosted and it settles down into ordinary steady state behaviour.
Such small kicks dramatically help combat the starvation issue, by
allowing each client the opportunity to run even when the system is
under heavy throughput load (within the constraints of the user
selected priority).

Testcase: igt/benchmarks/rrul
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c   | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h |  4 +++-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
index 67fd2ec75d78..63785a5c0418 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
@@ -1126,8 +1126,20 @@ void i915_request_add(struct i915_request *request)
 	 */
 	local_bh_disable();
 	rcu_read_lock(); /* RCU serialisation for set-wedged protection */
-	if (engine->schedule)
-		engine->schedule(request, &request->gem_context->sched);
+	if (engine->schedule) {
+		struct i915_sched_attr attr = request->gem_context->sched;
+
+		/*
+		 * Boost priorities to new clients (new request flows).
+		 *
+		 * Allow interactive/synchronous clients to jump ahead of
+		 * the bulk clients. (FQ_CODEL)
+		 */
+		if (!prev || i915_request_completed(prev))
+			attr.priority |= I915_PRIORITY_NEWCLIENT;
+
+		engine->schedule(request, &attr);
+	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	i915_sw_fence_commit(&request->submit);
 	local_bh_enable(); /* Kick the execlists tasklet if just scheduled */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
index 7edfad0abfd7..e9fb6c1d5e42 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
@@ -19,12 +19,14 @@ enum {
 	I915_PRIORITY_INVALID = INT_MIN
 };
 
-#define I915_USER_PRIORITY_SHIFT 0
+#define I915_USER_PRIORITY_SHIFT 1
 #define I915_USER_PRIORITY(x) ((x) << I915_USER_PRIORITY_SHIFT)
 
 #define I915_PRIORITY_COUNT BIT(I915_USER_PRIORITY_SHIFT)
 #define I915_PRIORITY_MASK (-I915_PRIORITY_COUNT)
 
+#define I915_PRIORITY_NEWCLIENT BIT(0)
+
 struct i915_sched_attr {
 	/**
 	 * @priority: execution and service priority
-- 
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