[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915/gem: Try an alternate engine for relocations

[Chris Wilson]

If at first we don't succeed, try try again.

Not all engines may support the MI ops we need to perform asynchronous
relocation patching, and so we end up falling back to a synchronous
operation that has a liability of blocking. However, Tvrtko pointed out
we don't need to use the same engine to perform the relocations as we
are planning to execute the execbuf on, and so if we switch over to a
working engine, we can perform the relocation asynchronously. The user
execbuf will be queued after the relocations by virtue of fencing.

This patch creates a new context per execbuf requiring asynchronous
relocations on an unusable engines. This is perhaps a bit excessive and
can be ameliorated by a small context cache, but for the moment we only
need it for working around a little used engine on Sandybridge, and only
if relocations are actually required to an active batch buffer.

Now we just need to teach the relocation code to handle physical
addressing for gen2/3, and we should then have universal support!

Suggested-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Testcase: igt/gem_exec_reloc/basic-spin # snb
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
---
 .../gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c    | 32 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index 4c4b9e0e75bc..3e02922bf68e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -1285,6 +1285,7 @@ static int reloc_move_to_gpu(struct i915_request *rq, struct i915_vma *vma)
 }
 
 static int __reloc_gpu_alloc(struct i915_execbuffer *eb,
+			     struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 			     unsigned int len)
 {
 	struct reloc_cache *cache = &eb->reloc_cache;
@@ -1294,7 +1295,7 @@ static int __reloc_gpu_alloc(struct i915_execbuffer *eb,
 	u32 *cmd;
 	int err;
 
-	pool = intel_gt_get_buffer_pool(eb->engine->gt, PAGE_SIZE);
+	pool = intel_gt_get_buffer_pool(engine->gt, PAGE_SIZE);
 	if (IS_ERR(pool))
 		return PTR_ERR(pool);
 
@@ -1317,7 +1318,23 @@ static int __reloc_gpu_alloc(struct i915_execbuffer *eb,
 	if (err)
 		goto err_unmap;
 
-	rq = i915_request_create(eb->context);
+	if (engine == eb->context->engine) {
+		rq = i915_request_create(eb->context);
+	} else {
+		struct intel_context *ce;
+
+		ce = intel_context_create(engine);
+		if (IS_ERR(ce)) {
+			err = PTR_ERR(rq);
+			goto err_unpin;
+		}
+
+		i915_vm_put(ce->vm);
+		ce->vm = i915_vm_get(eb->context->vm);
+
+		rq = intel_context_create_request(ce);
+		intel_context_put(ce);
+	}
 	if (IS_ERR(rq)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(rq);
 		goto err_unpin;
@@ -1368,10 +1385,15 @@ static u32 *reloc_gpu(struct i915_execbuffer *eb,
 	int err;
 
 	if (unlikely(!cache->rq)) {
-		if (!intel_engine_can_store_dword(eb->engine))
-			return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+		struct intel_engine_cs *engine = eb->engine;
+
+		if (!intel_engine_can_store_dword(engine)) {
+			engine = engine->gt->engine_class[COPY_ENGINE_CLASS][0];
+			if (!engine || !intel_engine_can_store_dword(engine))
+				return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+		}
 
-		err = __reloc_gpu_alloc(eb, len);
+		err = __reloc_gpu_alloc(eb, engine, len);
 		if (unlikely(err))
 			return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
-- 
2.20.1