[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/1] Let userspace know if they can trust timeslicing by including it as part of the I915_PARAM_HAS_SCHEDULER::I915_SCHEDULER_CAP_TIMESLICING

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On 25/05/2021 15:47, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 03:19:47PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>>
>> + dri-devel as per process
>>
>> On 25/05/2021 14:55, Tejas Upadhyay wrote:
>>> v2: Only declare timeslicing if we can safely preempt userspace.
>>
>> Commit message got butchered up somehow so you'll need to fix that at some
>> point.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tvrtko
>>
>>> Fixes: 8ee36e048c98 ("drm/i915/execlists: Minimalistic timeslicing")
>>> 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>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_user.c | 1 +
>>>    include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h                 | 1 +
>>>    2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_user.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_user.c
>>> index 3cca7ea2d6ea..12d165566ed2 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_user.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_user.c
>>> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static void set_scheduler_caps(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
>>>    		MAP(HAS_PREEMPTION, PREEMPTION),
>>>    		MAP(HAS_SEMAPHORES, SEMAPHORES),
>>>    		MAP(SUPPORTS_STATS, ENGINE_BUSY_STATS),
>>> +		MAP(TIMESLICE_BIT, TIMESLICING),
>>>    #undef MAP
>>>    	};
>>>    	struct intel_engine_cs *engine;
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
>>> index c2c7759b7d2e..af2212d6113c 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
>>> @@ -572,6 +572,7 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_irq_wait {
>>>    #define   I915_SCHEDULER_CAP_PREEMPTION	(1ul << 2)
>>>    #define   I915_SCHEDULER_CAP_SEMAPHORES	(1ul << 3)
>>>    #define   I915_SCHEDULER_CAP_ENGINE_BUSY_STATS	(1ul << 4)
>>> +#define   I915_SCHEDULER_CAP_TIMESLICING	(1ul << 5)
> 
> Since this is uapi I think we should at least have some nice kerneldoc
> that explains what exactly this is, what for (link to userspace) and all
> that. Ideally also minimally filing in the gaps in our uapi docs for stuff
> this references.

IIUC there is no userspace apart from IGT needing it not to fail 
scheduling tests on ADL.

Current tests use "has preemption + has semaphores" as a proxy to answer 
the "does the kernel support timeslicing" question. This stops working 
with the Guc backend because GuC decided not to support semaphores (for 
reasons yet unknown, see other thread), so explicit "has timeslicing" 
flag is needed in order for tests to know that GuC is supposed to 
support timeslicing, even if it doesn't use semaphores for inter-ring 
synchronisation.

Regards,

Tvrtko