[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Only emit one semaphore per request

[Chris Wilson]

Ideally we only need one semaphore per ring to accommodate waiting on
multiple engines in parallel. However, since we do not know which fences
we will finally be waiting on, we emit a semaphore for every fence. It
turns out to be quite easy to trick ourselves into exhausting our
ringbuffer causing an error, just by feeding in a batch that depends on
several thousand contexts.

Since we never can be waiting on more than one semaphore in parallel
(other than perhaps the desire to busywait on multiple engines), just
pick the first fence for our semaphore. If we pick the wrong fence to
busywait on, we just miss an opportunity to reduce latency.

An adaption might be to use sched.flags as either a semaphore counter,
or to track the first busywait on each engine, converting it back to a
single use bit prior to closing the request.

Testcase: igt/gem_exec_fence/long-history
Reported-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
Fixes: e88619646971 ("drm/i915: Use HW semaphores for inter-engine synchronisation on gen8+")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
index e9c2094ab8ea..941c89e2fe82 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
@@ -783,6 +783,12 @@ emit_semaphore_wait(struct i915_request *to,
 	GEM_BUG_ON(!from->timeline->has_initial_breadcrumb);
 	GEM_BUG_ON(INTEL_GEN(to->i915) < 8);
 
+	/* Just emit the first semaphore we see as request space is limited. */
+	if (to->sched.flags & I915_SCHED_HAS_SEMAPHORE)
+		return i915_sw_fence_await_dma_fence(&to->submit,
+						     &from->fence, 0,
+						     I915_FENCE_GFP);
+
 	/* We need to pin the signaler's HWSP until we are finished reading. */
 	err = i915_timeline_read_hwsp(from, to, &hwsp_offset);
 	if (err)
-- 
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