[PATCH v6 07/34] drm/i915: Disable hardware semaphores when GPU scheduler is enabled

John.C.Harrison
2016-04-20T17:14:05Z

Hardware sempahores require seqno values to be continuously
incrementing. However, the scheduler's reordering of batch buffers
means that the seqno values going through the hardware could be out of
order. Thus semaphores can not be used.

On the other hand, the scheduler superceeds the need for hardware
semaphores anyway. Having one ring stall waiting for something to
complete on another ring is inefficient if that ring could be working
on some other, independent task. This is what the scheduler is meant
to do - keep the hardware as busy as possible by reordering batch
buffers to avoid dependency stalls.

v4: Downgraded a BUG_ON to WARN_ON as the latter is preferred.

v5: Squashed the i915_scheduler.c portions down into the 'start of
scheduler' patch. [Joonas Lahtinen]

For: VIZ-1587
Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c | 9 +++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
index 29b4e79..1c5bdd0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include "i915_drv.h"
#include "i915_trace.h"
#include "intel_drv.h"
+#include "i915_scheduler.h"

#include <linux/apple-gmux.h>
#include <linux/console.h>
@@ -532,6 +533,14 @@ void intel_detect_pch(struct drm_device *dev)

bool i915_semaphore_is_enabled(struct drm_device *dev)
{
+ /* Hardware semaphores are not compatible with the scheduler due to the
+ * seqno values being potentially out of order. However, semaphores are
+ * also not required as the scheduler will handle interring dependencies
+ * and try do so in a way that does not cause dead time on the hardware.
+ */
+ if (i915_scheduler_is_enabled(dev))
+ return false;
+
if (INTEL_INFO(dev)->gen < 6)
return false;

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 5f209ba..e3f2237 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <drm/i915_drm.h>
#include "i915_trace.h"
#include "intel_drv.h"
+#include "i915_scheduler.h"

int __intel_ring_space(int head, int tail, int size)
{
@@ -1478,6 +1479,9 @@ gen6_ring_sync(struct drm_i915_gem_request *waiter_req,
u32 wait_mbox = signaller->semaphore.mbox.wait[waiter->id];
int ret;

+ /* Arithmetic on sequence numbers is unreliable with a scheduler. */
+ WARN_ON(i915_scheduler_is_enabled(signaller->dev));
+
/* Throughout all of the GEM code, seqno passed implies our current
* seqno is >= the last seqno executed. However for hardware the
* comparison is strictly greater than.