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From: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	Antonio Argenziano <antonio.argenziano@intel.com>,
	igt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [igt-dev] [RFC] tests/i915/gem_exec_fence: Pre-fault objects with dependencies
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:56:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <71cb7b5d-b456-d4e1-4275-ee766104883c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155260616014.30576.3110980035147255449@skylake-alporthouse-com>



On 3/14/19 4:29 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Antonio Argenziano (2019-03-14 23:22:32)
>> In the fault manager code we wait on an active object to complete before
>> servicing the fault. This meant that the object 'out' used in the test
>> could not be read until it became inactive which could not happen since
>> it is kept busy from the store queued behind the spinner (at least). The
>> bug became evident only after using the mmap_offset patches since we
>> were not faulting before.
> 
> out is using mmap_wc, it doesn't block inside the fault handler today.
> And it better had not start blocking in the future. Now for the opposite
> problem of removing the gratuitous blocking in the gtt fault handler,
> which may require some reminders to userspace that they needed to
> control sync themselves.
> -Chris
> 

The current patches for mmap_offset do wait on all types of mapping, so 
I guess we need to change that.

@Matt: I saw that there were lots of comments on that series so this 
issue might have already been pointed out, but if it hasn't please add 
it to the list ;)

Thanks,
Daniele
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-14 23:22 [igt-dev] [RFC] tests/i915/gem_exec_fence: Pre-fault objects with dependencies Antonio Argenziano
2019-03-14 23:29 ` Chris Wilson
2019-03-14 23:56   ` Daniele Ceraolo Spurio [this message]
2019-03-15  0:07     ` Chris Wilson
2019-03-14 23:54 ` [igt-dev] ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success for " Patchwork
2019-03-15 12:11 ` [igt-dev] ✓ Fi.CI.IGT: " Patchwork

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