[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/5] drm/i915: Disable semaphore busywaits on saturated systems

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 03:12:01PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Ville Syrjälä (2019-05-03 15:04:57)
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 07:00:19PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > Asking the GPU to busywait on a memory address, perhaps not unexpectedly
> > > in hindsight for a shared system, leads to bus contention that affects
> > > CPU programs trying to concurrently access memory. This can manifest as
> > > a drop in transcode throughput on highly over-saturated workloads.
> > 
> > We can't use the singalling semaphore variant?
> 
> That requires us to broadcast a signal to each engine (for which I can
> hear the cries of cross-powerwell wakes), and currently does not work
> with execlists + context-id==0. Or at least it failed in my testing.

Ah. If only we had MI_MWAIT.

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel