[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/tgl: Magic udelay to relieve the random lockups with multiple engines

[Andi Shyti]

Hi Chris,

> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> @@ -1186,6 +1186,21 @@ static void execlists_submit_ports(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
>  	/* we need to manually load the submit queue */
>  	if (execlists->ctrl_reg)
>  		writel(EL_CTRL_LOAD, execlists->ctrl_reg);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Now this is evil magic.
> +	 *
> +	 * Adding the same udelay() to process_csb before we clear
> +	 * execlists->pending (that is after we receive the HW ack for this
> +	 * submit and before we can submit again) does not relieve the symptoms
> +	 * (machine lockup). So is the active difference here the wait under
> +	 * the irq-off spinlock? That gives more credance to the theory that
> +	 * the issue is interrupt delivery. Also note that we still rely on
> +	 * disabling RPS, again that seems like an issue with simultaneous
> +	 * GT interrupts being delivered to the same CPU.
> +	 */
> +	if (IS_TIGERLAKE(engine->i915))
> +		udelay(250);

you want a delay of 250us. Two questions:

1. why 250?

2. is there any good reason for using 'udelay' for sleeping 250us
   (that is quite a long time) and not 'usleep'?

Thanks,
Andi