On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 04:48:54PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 03:29:01PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > The busy-ioctl is frequently called as it is used by clients treating
> > buffer objects like fences and polling for completion. These frequent
> > calls are especially subject to contention with multiple clients leading
> > to a lot of busy-waiting due to mutex_spin_on_owner()). We can, in most
> > cases, report whether the bo is idle without touching struct_mutex, and
> > only resort to hitting the lock if we need to queue flushes for the bo.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > index 3b942ce..fed0b39 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> > @@ -4068,18 +4068,34 @@ i915_gem_busy_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void 
> > *data,
> >  {
> >     struct drm_i915_gem_busy *args = data;
> >     struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj;
> > +   struct intel_ring_buffer *ring;
> >     int ret;
> >  
> > -   ret = i915_mutex_lock_interruptible(dev);
> > -   if (ret)
> > -           return ret;
> > -
> >     obj = to_intel_bo(drm_gem_object_lookup(dev, file, args->handle));
> >     if (&obj->base == NULL) {
> >             ret = -ENOENT;
> > -           goto unlock;
> > +           goto out_unlocked;
> >     }
> >  
> > +   /* Do an optimistic check for activity - we don't care about userspace
> > +    * racing with itself, that is always problematic.
> > +    */
> > +   ring = obj->ring;
> > +   if (ring && obj->last_read_seqno == ring->outstanding_lazy_seqno)
> > +           goto lock_and_flush;
> 
> Feels a bit too tricky ... How useful is just an
> 
>       if (ACCESS_ONCE(obj->active))
>               goto lock_and_flush;

Not good enough, still ends up fighting for the lock.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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