[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915/selftests: Bump the scheduling error threshold for fast heartbeats

[Chris Wilson]

Since we are system_highpri_wq, we expected the heartbeat to be
scheduled promptly. However, we see delays of over 10ms upsetting our
assertions. Accept this as inevitable and bump the minimum error
threshold to 20ms (from 6 jiffies).

<6> [616.784749] rcs0: Heartbeat delay: 3570us [2802, 9188]
<6> [616.807790] bcs0: Heartbeat delay: 2111us [745, 4372]
<6> [616.853776] vcs0: Heartbeat delay: 6485us [2424, 11637]
<3> [616.859296] vcs0: Heartbeat delay was 6485us, expected less than 6000us
<3> [616.860901] i915/intel_heartbeat_live_selftests: live_heartbeat_fast failed with error -22

v2: More context from CI.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_engine_heartbeat.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_engine_heartbeat.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_engine_heartbeat.c
index b88aa35ad75b..223ab88f7e57 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_engine_heartbeat.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/selftest_engine_heartbeat.c
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ static int cmp_u32(const void *_a, const void *_b)
 
 static int __live_heartbeat_fast(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 {
+	const unsigned int error_threshold = max(20000u, jiffies_to_usecs(6));
 	struct intel_context *ce;
 	struct i915_request *rq;
 	ktime_t t0, t1;
@@ -254,12 +255,18 @@ static int __live_heartbeat_fast(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 		times[0],
 		times[ARRAY_SIZE(times) - 1]);
 
-	/* Min work delay is 2 * 2 (worst), +1 for scheduling, +1 for slack */
-	if (times[ARRAY_SIZE(times) / 2] > jiffies_to_usecs(6)) {
+	/*
+	 * Ideally, the upper bound on min work delay would be something like
+	 * 2 * 2 (worst), +1 for scheduling, +1 for slack. In practice, we
+	 * are, even with system_wq_highpri, at the mercy of the CPU scheduler
+	 * and may be stuck behind some slow work for many millisecond. Such
+	 * as our very own display workers.
+	 */
+	if (times[ARRAY_SIZE(times) / 2] > error_threshold) {
 		pr_err("%s: Heartbeat delay was %uus, expected less than %dus\n",
 		       engine->name,
 		       times[ARRAY_SIZE(times) / 2],
-		       jiffies_to_usecs(6));
+		       error_threshold);
 		err = -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-- 
2.20.1