[PATCH v6 03/15] drm/sched: Avoid double re-lock on the job free path

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On 08/07/2025 12:22, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-07-08 at 10:51 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>> Currently the job free work item will lock sched->job_list_lock first
>> time
>> to see if there are any jobs, free a single job, and then lock again
>> to
>> decide whether to re-queue itself if there are more finished jobs.
>>
>> Since drm_sched_get_finished_job() already looks at the second job in
>> the
>> queue we can simply add the signaled check and have it return the
>> presence
>> of more jobs to free to the caller. That way the work item does not
>> have
>> to lock the list again and repeat the signaled check.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at igalia.com>
>> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com>
>> Cc: Philipp Stanner <phasta at kernel.org>
> 
> This one can be sent separately, like the one for drm_sched_init()
> recently, can't it?

Done.

Regards,

Tvrtko

> P.
> 
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 37 ++++++++++--------------
>> --
>>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
>> index 1f077782ec12..1bce0b66f89c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
>> @@ -366,22 +366,6 @@ static void __drm_sched_run_free_queue(struct
>> drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
>>   		queue_work(sched->submit_wq, &sched->work_free_job);
>>   }
>>   
>> -/**
>> - * drm_sched_run_free_queue - enqueue free-job work if ready
>> - * @sched: scheduler instance
>> - */
>> -static void drm_sched_run_free_queue(struct drm_gpu_scheduler
>> *sched)
>> -{
>> -	struct drm_sched_job *job;
>> -
>> -	spin_lock(&sched->job_list_lock);
>> -	job = list_first_entry_or_null(&sched->pending_list,
>> -				       struct drm_sched_job, list);
>> -	if (job && dma_fence_is_signaled(&job->s_fence->finished))
>> -		__drm_sched_run_free_queue(sched);
>> -	spin_unlock(&sched->job_list_lock);
>> -}
>> -
>>   /**
>>    * drm_sched_job_done - complete a job
>>    * @s_job: pointer to the job which is done
>> @@ -1102,12 +1086,13 @@ drm_sched_select_entity(struct
>> drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
>>    * drm_sched_get_finished_job - fetch the next finished job to be
>> destroyed
>>    *
>>    * @sched: scheduler instance
>> + * @have_more: are there more finished jobs on the list
>>    *
>>    * Returns the next finished job from the pending list (if there is
>> one)
>>    * ready for it to be destroyed.
>>    */
>>   static struct drm_sched_job *
>> -drm_sched_get_finished_job(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
>> +drm_sched_get_finished_job(struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched, bool
>> *have_more)
>>   {
>>   	struct drm_sched_job *job, *next;
>>   
>> @@ -1115,22 +1100,25 @@ drm_sched_get_finished_job(struct
>> drm_gpu_scheduler *sched)
>>   
>>   	job = list_first_entry_or_null(&sched->pending_list,
>>   				       struct drm_sched_job, list);
>> -
>>   	if (job && dma_fence_is_signaled(&job->s_fence->finished)) {
>>   		/* remove job from pending_list */
>>   		list_del_init(&job->list);
>>   
>>   		/* cancel this job's TO timer */
>>   		cancel_delayed_work(&sched->work_tdr);
>> -		/* make the scheduled timestamp more accurate */
>> +
>> +		*have_more = false;
>>   		next = list_first_entry_or_null(&sched-
>>> pending_list,
>>   						typeof(*next),
>> list);
>> -
>>   		if (next) {
>> +			/* make the scheduled timestamp more
>> accurate */
>>   			if (test_bit(DMA_FENCE_FLAG_TIMESTAMP_BIT,
>>   				     &next->s_fence-
>>> scheduled.flags))
>>   				next->s_fence->scheduled.timestamp =
>>   					dma_fence_timestamp(&job-
>>> s_fence->finished);
>> +
>> +			*have_more = dma_fence_is_signaled(&next-
>>> s_fence->finished);
>> +
>>   			/* start TO timer for next job */
>>   			drm_sched_start_timeout(sched);
>>   		}
>> @@ -1189,12 +1177,15 @@ static void drm_sched_free_job_work(struct
>> work_struct *w)
>>   	struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched =
>>   		container_of(w, struct drm_gpu_scheduler,
>> work_free_job);
>>   	struct drm_sched_job *job;
>> +	bool have_more;
>>   
>> -	job = drm_sched_get_finished_job(sched);
>> -	if (job)
>> +	job = drm_sched_get_finished_job(sched, &have_more);
>> +	if (job) {
>>   		sched->ops->free_job(job);
>> +		if (have_more)
>> +			__drm_sched_run_free_queue(sched);
>> +	}
>>   
>> -	drm_sched_run_free_queue(sched);
>>   	drm_sched_run_job_queue(sched);
>>   }
>>   
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