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* [PATCH] drm/i915: Call io_schedule() whilst whilsting for the GPU
@ 2013-10-04  8:58 Chris Wilson
  2013-10-04  9:14 ` Daniel Vetter
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Chris Wilson @ 2013-10-04  8:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: intel-gfx; +Cc: Daniel Vetter

Since we are waiting upon IO completion, inform the kernel through use
of the io_schedule() call rather than the regular schedule(). This
should allow the kernel to make better decisions regarding scheduling
and power management.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 825d8ea35e08..6f2db61fc65b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@ static int __wait_seqno(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring, u32 seqno,
 			mod_timer(&timer, expire);
 		}
 
-		schedule();
+		io_schedule();
 
 		if (timeout)
 			timeout_jiffies = expire - jiffies;
-- 
1.8.4.rc3

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* Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Call io_schedule() whilst whilsting for the GPU
  2013-10-04  8:58 [PATCH] drm/i915: Call io_schedule() whilst whilsting for the GPU Chris Wilson
@ 2013-10-04  9:14 ` Daniel Vetter
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Vetter @ 2013-10-04  9:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chris Wilson; +Cc: Daniel Vetter, intel-gfx

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:58:46AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Since we are waiting upon IO completion, inform the kernel through use
> of the io_schedule() call rather than the regular schedule(). This
> should allow the kernel to make better decisions regarding scheduling
> and power management.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

Yeah, I like. Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

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