[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 5/7] drm/i915: handle interrupts from the OA unit

[Lionel Landwerlin]

On 16/01/2019 15:52, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Lionel Landwerlin (2019-01-16 15:36:20)
>> @@ -1877,6 +1883,21 @@ struct drm_i915_private {
>>                          wait_queue_head_t poll_wq;
>>                          bool pollin;
>>   
>> +                       /**
>> +                        * Atomic counter incremented by the interrupt
>> +                        * handling code for each OA half full interrupt
>> +                        * received.
>> +                        */
>> +                       atomic64_t half_full_count;
>> +
>> +                       /**
>> +                        * Copy of the atomic half_full_count that was last
>> +                        * processed in the i915-perf driver. If both counters
>> +                        * differ, there is data available to read in the OA
>> +                        * buffer.
>> +                        */
>> +                       u64 half_full_count_last;
> Eh? But why a relatively expensive atomic64. You only need one bit, and
> reading the tail pointer from WB memory should just be cheap. You should
> be able to sample the perf ringbuffer pointers very cheaply... What am I
> missing?
> -Chris
>
Fair comment.

The thing is with this series there are 2 mechanism that notify the poll_wq.

One is the hrtimer that kicks in at regular interval and polls the 
register with the workaround.

The other is the interrupt which doesn't read the registers and workaround.


Maybe a better way to do it would be to have 2 wait queues, one triggers 
a workqueue for the oa_buffer_check after the interrupt, the other 
notifies the existing poll_wq.


-

Lionel