Chris Wilson <[email protected]> writes:
> We want to restrict waitboosting to known process contexts, where we can
> track which clients are receiving waitboosts and prevent excessive power
> wasting. For fence_wait() we do not have any client tracking and so that
> leaves it open to abuse.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c | 7 ++++---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
> index 6528536878f2..bfec4a88707d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static signed long i915_fence_wait(struct fence *fence,
>
> ret = __i915_wait_request(to_request(fence),
> interruptible, timeout,
> - NULL);
> + NO_WAITBOOST);
> if (ret == -ETIME)
> return 0;
>
> @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ int __i915_wait_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
> * forcing the clocks too high for the whole system, we only allow
> * each client to waitboost once in a busy period.
> */
> - if (INTEL_GEN(req->i915) >= 6)
> + if (!IS_ERR(rps) && INTEL_GEN(req->i915) >= 6)
> gen6_rps_boost(req->i915, rps, req->emitted_jiffies);
>
The intention here is to boost even if rps client is NULL?
Assuming so could you elaborate why.
Thanks,
-Mika
> /* Optimistic spin for the next ~jiffie before touching IRQs */
> @@ -713,7 +713,8 @@ complete:
> *timeout = 0;
> }
>
> - if (rps && req->fence.seqno == req->engine->last_submitted_seqno) {
> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(rps) &&
> + req->fence.seqno == req->engine->last_submitted_seqno) {
> /* The GPU is now idle and this client has stalled.
> * Since no other client has submitted a request in the
> * meantime, assume that this client is the only one
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h
> index 6f2c820785f3..f7f497a07893 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h
> @@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ void __i915_add_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
> __i915_add_request(req, NULL, false)
>
> struct intel_rps_client;
> +#define NO_WAITBOOST ERR_PTR(-1)
>
> int __i915_wait_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
> bool interruptible,
> --
> 2.8.1
>
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