[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use locked access to ctx->engines in set_priority

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Thu Aug 12 15:30:41 UTC 2021


On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 5:10 PM Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 8:05 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >
> > This essentially reverts
> >
> > commit 89ff76bf9b3b0b86e6bbe344bd6378d8661303fc
> > Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Date:   Thu Apr 2 13:42:18 2020 +0100
> >
> >     drm/i915/gem: Utilize rcu iteration of context engines
> >
> > Note that the other use of __context_engines_await have disappeard in
> > the following commits:
> >
> > ccbc1b97948a ("drm/i915/gem: Don't allow changing the VM on running contexts (v4)")
> > c7a71fc8ee04 ("drm/i915: Drop getparam support for I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_ENGINES")
> > 4a766ae40ec8 ("drm/i915: Drop the CONTEXT_CLONE API (v2)")
> >
> > None of these have any business to optimize their engine lookup with
> > rcu, unless extremely convincing benchmark data and a solid analysis
> > why we can't make that workload (whatever it is that does) faster with
> > a proper design fix.
> >
> > Also since there's only one caller of context_apply_all left and it's
> > really just a loop, inline it and then inline the lopp body too. This
> > is how all other callers that take the engine lock loop over engines,
> > it's much simpler.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
> > Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> > Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c | 72 ++++-----------------
> >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
> > index dbaeb924a437..fd169cf2f75a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
> > @@ -1284,49 +1284,6 @@ static int __context_set_persistence(struct i915_gem_context *ctx, bool state)
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > -static inline struct i915_gem_engines *
> > -__context_engines_await(const struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
> > -                       bool *user_engines)
> > -{
> > -       struct i915_gem_engines *engines;
> > -
> > -       rcu_read_lock();
> > -       do {
> > -               engines = rcu_dereference(ctx->engines);
> > -               GEM_BUG_ON(!engines);
> > -
> > -               if (user_engines)
> > -                       *user_engines = i915_gem_context_user_engines(ctx);
> > -
> > -               /* successful await => strong mb */
> > -               if (unlikely(!i915_sw_fence_await(&engines->fence)))
>
> Ugh... The first time I looked at this I thought the SW fence meant it
> was actually waiting on something.  But, no, it's just making sure the
> engines object still exists.  *sigh*  Burn it!

... why did you force me to page this in again, I already forgot.

> Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>

Merged to drm-intel-gt-next, thanks for the review.
-Daniel

>
> > -                       continue;
> > -
> > -               if (likely(engines == rcu_access_pointer(ctx->engines)))
> > -                       break;
> > -
> > -               i915_sw_fence_complete(&engines->fence);
> > -       } while (1);
> > -       rcu_read_unlock();
> > -
> > -       return engines;
> > -}
> > -
> > -static void
> > -context_apply_all(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
> > -                 void (*fn)(struct intel_context *ce, void *data),
> > -                 void *data)
> > -{
> > -       struct i915_gem_engines_iter it;
> > -       struct i915_gem_engines *e;
> > -       struct intel_context *ce;
> > -
> > -       e = __context_engines_await(ctx, NULL);
> > -       for_each_gem_engine(ce, e, it)
> > -               fn(ce, data);
> > -       i915_sw_fence_complete(&e->fence);
> > -}
> > -
> >  static struct i915_gem_context *
> >  i915_gem_create_context(struct drm_i915_private *i915,
> >                         const struct i915_gem_proto_context *pc)
> > @@ -1776,23 +1733,11 @@ set_persistence(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
> >         return __context_set_persistence(ctx, args->value);
> >  }
> >
> > -static void __apply_priority(struct intel_context *ce, void *arg)
> > -{
> > -       struct i915_gem_context *ctx = arg;
> > -
> > -       if (!intel_engine_has_timeslices(ce->engine))
> > -               return;
> > -
> > -       if (ctx->sched.priority >= I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL &&
> > -           intel_engine_has_semaphores(ce->engine))
> > -               intel_context_set_use_semaphores(ce);
> > -       else
> > -               intel_context_clear_use_semaphores(ce);
> > -}
> > -
> >  static int set_priority(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
> >                         const struct drm_i915_gem_context_param *args)
> >  {
> > +       struct i915_gem_engines_iter it;
> > +       struct intel_context *ce;
> >         int err;
> >
> >         err = validate_priority(ctx->i915, args);
> > @@ -1800,7 +1745,18 @@ static int set_priority(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
> >                 return err;
> >
> >         ctx->sched.priority = args->value;
> > -       context_apply_all(ctx, __apply_priority, ctx);
> > +
> > +       for_each_gem_engine(ce, i915_gem_context_lock_engines(ctx), it) {
> > +               if (!intel_engine_has_timeslices(ce->engine))
> > +                       continue;
> > +
> > +               if (ctx->sched.priority >= I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL &&
> > +                   intel_engine_has_semaphores(ce->engine))
> > +                       intel_context_set_use_semaphores(ce);
> > +               else
> > +                       intel_context_clear_use_semaphores(ce);
> > +       }
> > +       i915_gem_context_unlock_engines(ctx);
> >
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> > --
> > 2.32.0
> >



-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch


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