[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 4/4] drm/i915: Improve long running OCL w/a for GuC submission

[Mrozek, Michal]

Acked-by: Michal Mrozek <michal.mrozek at intel.com>

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From: Harrison, John C <john.c.harrison at intel.com> 
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Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] drm/i915: Improve long running OCL w/a for GuC submission

From: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>

A workaround was added to the driver to allow OpenCL workloads to run 'forever' by disabling pre-emption on the RCS engine for Gen12.
It is not totally unbound as the heartbeat will kick in eventually and cause a reset of the hung engine.

However, this does not work well in GuC submission mode. In GuC mode, the pre-emption timeout is how GuC detects hung contexts and triggers a per engine reset. Thus, disabling the timeout means also losing all per engine reset ability. A full GT reset will still occur when the heartbeat finally expires, but that is a much more destructive and undesirable mechanism.

The purpose of the workaround is actually to give OpenCL tasks longer to reach a pre-emption point after a pre-emption request has been issued. This is necessary because Gen12 does not support mid-thread pre-emption and OpenCL can have long running threads.

So, rather than disabling the timeout completely, just set it to a 'long' value.

v2: Review feedback from Tvrtko - must hard code the 'long' value instead of determining it algorithmically. So make it an extra CONFIG definition. Also, remove the execlist centric comment from the existing pre-emption timeout CONFIG option given that it applies to more than just execlists.

Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio at intel.com> (v1)
Acked-by: Michal Mrozek <michal.mrozek at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile      | 26 +++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c |  9 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile
index 39328567c200..7cc38d25ee5c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile
@@ -57,10 +57,28 @@ config DRM_I915_PREEMPT_TIMEOUT
 	default 640 # milliseconds
 	help
 	  How long to wait (in milliseconds) for a preemption event to occur
-	  when submitting a new context via execlists. If the current context
-	  does not hit an arbitration point and yield to HW before the timer
-	  expires, the HW will be reset to allow the more important context
-	  to execute.
+	  when submitting a new context. If the current context does not hit
+	  an arbitration point and yield to HW before the timer expires, the
+	  HW will be reset to allow the more important context to execute.
+
+	  This is adjustable via
+	  /sys/class/drm/card?/engine/*/preempt_timeout_ms
+
+	  May be 0 to disable the timeout.
+
+	  The compiled in default may get overridden at driver probe time on
+	  certain platforms and certain engines which will be reflected in the
+	  sysfs control.
+
+config DRM_I915_PREEMPT_TIMEOUT_COMPUTE
+	int "Preempt timeout for compute engines (ms, jiffy granularity)"
+	default 7500 # milliseconds
+	help
+	  How long to wait (in milliseconds) for a preemption event to occur
+	  when submitting a new context to a compute capable engine. If the
+	  current context does not hit an arbitration point and yield to HW
+	  before the timer expires, the HW will be reset to allow the more
+	  important context to execute.
 
 	  This is adjustable via
 	  /sys/class/drm/card?/engine/*/preempt_timeout_ms
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
index 4185c7338581..cc0954ad836a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
@@ -438,9 +438,14 @@ static int intel_engine_setup(struct intel_gt *gt, enum intel_engine_id id,
 	engine->props.timeslice_duration_ms =
 		CONFIG_DRM_I915_TIMESLICE_DURATION;
 
-	/* Override to uninterruptible for OpenCL workloads. */
+	/*
+	 * Mid-thread pre-emption is not available in Gen12. Unfortunately,
+	 * some OpenCL workloads run quite long threads. That means they get
+	 * reset due to not pre-empting in a timely manner. So, bump the
+	 * pre-emption timeout value to be much higher for compute engines.
+	 */
 	if (GRAPHICS_VER(i915) == 12 && (engine->flags & I915_ENGINE_HAS_RCS_REG_STATE))
-		engine->props.preempt_timeout_ms = 0;
+		engine->props.preempt_timeout_ms = 
+CONFIG_DRM_I915_PREEMPT_TIMEOUT_COMPUTE;
 
 	/* Cap properties according to any system limits */  #define CLAMP_PROP(field) \
--
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