Re: [igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 16/21] gem_wsim: Some more example workloads

Chris Wilson
2019-05-08T13:56:55Z

Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2019-05-08 14:50:41)
>
> On 08/05/2019 13:27, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2019-05-08 13:10:53)
> >> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
> >>
> >> A few additional workloads useful for experimenting with scheduling.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
> >
> > Are the extra modes & .wsim supported by scripts/media-bench.pl?
> > i.e. can I just run media-bench.pl and have it exercise all the new
> > features?
>
> Not sure what you mean by extra modes? If all new wsim commands then no.
> They are not in the default media-bench.pl set. The workloads from this
> patch are not in that set so are just for reference.

That's what I meant, are the new example.wsim with explicit engine maps
and so I presume inter-mixing of load-balanced workloads with other work
included in the default set run by ./scripts/media-bench.pl

What's the minimum amount of effort I need to exercise all the new
features of gem_wsim? :)

> Virtual engine (gem_wsim -b i915) is supported by media-bench.pl even
> with the old/default set of workloads.
>
> The catch is old wsim workloads use VCS to mean any VCS and in those
> cases -b i915 will set up the virtual engine
> automatically/transparently. So those old workloads can be ran both with
> userspace or i915 balancing.

And seems to still be working.
-Chris