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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Use usleep_range() in wait_for()
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:31:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <550C7584.1000903@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426879688-5796-1-git-send-email-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>

On 03/20/2015 12:28 PM, ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> 
> msleep() can sleep for way too long, so switch wait_for() to use
> usleep_range() instead. Following a totally unscientific method
> I just picked the range as W-2W.
> 
> This cuts the i915 init time on my BSW to almost half:
> - initcall i915_init+0x0/0xa8 [i915] returned 0 after 419977 usecs
> + initcall i915_init+0x0/0xa8 [i915] returned 0 after 238419 usecs
> 
> Note that I didn't perform any other benchmarks on this so far.
> 
> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h
> index 6f20f3a..d2a4de0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h
> @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
>  				ret__ = -ETIMEDOUT;			\
>  			break;						\
>  		}							\
> -		if (W && drm_can_sleep())  {				\
> -			msleep(W);					\
> +		if ((W) && drm_can_sleep()) {				\
> +			usleep_range((W)*1000, (W)*2000);		\
>  		} else {						\
>  			cpu_relax();					\
>  		}							\
> 

Nice improvement!  I guess it's just because usleep_range() uses an
hrtimeout, but since we have the added slop of the range it may actually
be an improvement, power-wise too.

Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-20 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-20 19:28 [PATCH] drm/i915: Use usleep_range() in wait_for() ville.syrjala
2015-03-20 19:31 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2015-03-23  9:30   ` Daniel Vetter
2015-03-20 21:09 ` Chris Wilson
2015-03-23  9:39   ` Ville Syrjälä
2015-03-23  9:46     ` Daniel Vetter
2015-03-20 23:38 ` shuang.he

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