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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
Cc: "Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
	"Bhaktipriya Shridhar" <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>,
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:52:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160712175252.GN3190@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f4299b1-a118-50ce-1f40-fbcfdfb19942@daenzer.net>

Hello,

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 02:52:30PM +0900, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 07.07.2016 16:43, Christian König wrote:
> >>> Also, what kind of delays matter here?  Is it millisec range or micro?
> >> It can be the latter in theory, but normally rather the former.
> > 
> > Well to be precise with a typical 1920x1080@60 resolution you have about
> > 2.16ms time under ideal conditions for the flip.
> > 
> > So using the high priority queue still sounds like a good idea to me.
> 
> How did you arrive at 2.16ms?
> 
> Userspace can call the ioctl up to one full refresh cycle ahead of time,
> which is ~16ms at 60 Hz. On the other hand userspace can also call the
> ioctl arbitrarily close to the vertical blank period, in which case even
> a delay of just 1ms (or even significantly less) may cause the flip to
> be delayed by one refresh cycle.

If there's too long a delay, the outcome is missing the refresh cycle,
right?  Hmmm... yeah, WQ_HIGHPRI probably is the right answer here.
Bhaktipriya, can you please update the patch to use a dedicated
workqueue with WQ_HIGHPRI?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-02 11:03 [PATCH] drm/radeon: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-07-02 13:46 ` Tejun Heo
2016-07-04  3:58   ` Michel Dänzer
2016-07-05 21:06     ` Tejun Heo
2016-07-06  3:12       ` Michel Dänzer
2016-07-06 13:45         ` Tejun Heo
2016-07-07  3:32           ` Michel Dänzer
2016-07-07  7:43             ` Christian König
2016-07-08  5:52               ` Michel Dänzer
2016-07-12 17:52                 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-07-16 11:30                   ` [PATCH v2] " Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-07-18 13:21                     ` Christian König
2016-07-19  0:48                     ` Tejun Heo
2016-07-28 16:14                       ` Alex Deucher
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-06-28 17:26 [PATCH] " Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-06-28 17:44 ` Bhaktipriya Shridhar

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