Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915/execlists: Enable timeslice on partial virtual engine dequeue

[Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>]

Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> writes:

> If we stop filling the ELSP due to an incompatible virtual engine
> request, check if we should enable the timeslice on behalf of the queue.
>
> This fixes the case where we are inspecting the last->next element when
> we know that the last element is the last request in the execution queue,
> and so decided we did not need to enable timeslicing despite the intent
> to do so!
>
> Fixes: 8ee36e048c98 ("drm/i915/execlists: Minimalistic timeslicing")
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.4+

Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> index 13941d1c0a4a..a1d268880cfe 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> @@ -1757,11 +1757,9 @@ need_timeslice(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, const struct i915_request *rq)
>  	if (!intel_engine_has_timeslices(engine))
>  		return false;
>  
> -	if (list_is_last(&rq->sched.link, &engine->active.requests))
> -		return false;
> -
> -	hint = max(rq_prio(list_next_entry(rq, sched.link)),
> -		   engine->execlists.queue_priority_hint);
> +	hint = engine->execlists.queue_priority_hint;
> +	if (!list_is_last(&rq->sched.link, &engine->active.requests))
> +		hint = max(hint, rq_prio(list_next_entry(rq, sched.link)));
>  
>  	return hint >= effective_prio(rq);
>  }
> @@ -1803,6 +1801,18 @@ static void set_timeslice(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
>  	set_timer_ms(&engine->execlists.timer, active_timeslice(engine));
>  }
>  
> +static void start_timeslice(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
> +{
> +	struct intel_engine_execlists *execlists = &engine->execlists;
> +
> +	execlists->switch_priority_hint = execlists->queue_priority_hint;
> +
> +	if (timer_pending(&execlists->timer))
> +		return;
> +
> +	set_timer_ms(&execlists->timer, timeslice(engine));
> +}
> +
>  static void record_preemption(struct intel_engine_execlists *execlists)
>  {
>  	(void)I915_SELFTEST_ONLY(execlists->preempt_hang.count++);
> @@ -1966,11 +1976,7 @@ static void execlists_dequeue(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
>  				 * Even if ELSP[1] is occupied and not worthy
>  				 * of timeslices, our queue might be.
>  				 */
> -				if (!execlists->timer.expires &&
> -				    need_timeslice(engine, last))
> -					set_timer_ms(&execlists->timer,
> -						     timeslice(engine));
> -
> +				start_timeslice(engine);
>  				return;
>  			}
>  		}
> @@ -2005,7 +2011,8 @@ static void execlists_dequeue(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
>  
>  			if (last && !can_merge_rq(last, rq)) {
>  				spin_unlock(&ve->base.active.lock);
> -				return; /* leave this for another */
> +				start_timeslice(engine);
> +				return; /* leave this for another sibling */
>  			}
>  
>  			ENGINE_TRACE(engine,
> -- 
> 2.25.1
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