[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: Do not use iowait while waiting for the GPU

[Mika Kuoppala]

Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> writes:

> A recent trend for cpufreq is to boost the CPU frequencies for
> iowaiters, in particularly to benefit high frequency I/O. We do the same
> and boost the GPU clocks to try and minimise time spent waiting for the
> GPU. However, as the igfx and CPU share the same TDP, boosting the CPU
> frequency will result in the GPU being throttled and its frequency being
> reduced. Thus declaring iowait negatively impacts on GPU throughput.
>
> v2: Both sleeps!
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107410
> References: 52ccc4314293 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: HWP boost performance on IO wakeup")

The commit above has it's own heuristics on when to actual ramp up,
inspecting the interval of io waits.

Regardless of that, with shared tdp, the waiter should not stand in a
way. And that it fixes a regression:

Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>

On other way around, the atomic commit code on updating
planes, could potentially benefit of changing to the
io_schedule_timeout. (and/or adopting c state limits)

-Mika

> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen at intel.com>
> Cc: Francisco Jerez <currojerez at riseup.net>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> index f3ff8dbe363d..3e48ea87b324 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> @@ -1376,7 +1376,7 @@ long i915_request_wait(struct i915_request *rq,
>  			goto complete;
>  		}
>  
> -		timeout = io_schedule_timeout(timeout);
> +		timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
>  	} while (1);
>  
>  	GEM_BUG_ON(!intel_wait_has_seqno(&wait));
> @@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@ long i915_request_wait(struct i915_request *rq,
>  				      wait.seqno - 1))
>  			qos = wait_dma_qos_add();
>  
> -		timeout = io_schedule_timeout(timeout);
> +		timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
>  
>  		if (intel_wait_complete(&wait) &&
>  		    intel_wait_check_request(&wait, rq))
> -- 
> 2.18.0