[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/5] drm/i915/perf: allow holding preemption on filtered ctx

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Lionel Landwerlin (2019-05-21 17:50:30)
> On 21/05/2019 17:36, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Lionel Landwerlin (2019-05-21 15:08:52)
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> >> index f263a8374273..2ad95977f7a8 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> >> @@ -2085,7 +2085,7 @@ static int gen9_emit_bb_start(struct i915_request *rq,
> >>          if (IS_ERR(cs))
> >>                  return PTR_ERR(cs);
> >>   
> >> -       *cs++ = MI_ARB_ON_OFF | MI_ARB_ENABLE;
> >> +       *cs++ = MI_ARB_ON_OFF | rq->hw_context->arb_enable;
> > My prediction is that this will result in this context being reset due 
> > to preemption timeouts and the context under profile being banned. 
> > Note that preemption timeouts will be the primary means for hang 
> > detection for endless batches. -Chris
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> One question : how is that dealt with with compute workloads at the moment?
> I though those where still not fully preemptable.

Not blocking is the condition under which they get to use endless...
compute jobs are preemptible from gen9 afaik, gen8 was problematic and so
disabled.
 
> I need to rework this with a more "software" approach holding on preemption.
> Adding a condition in intel_lrc.c need_preempt() looks like the right 
> direction?

Even less if that is our means of hangcheck.
-Chris