Re: [PATCH 6/6] drm/i915/display: Make fence timeout infinite

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>]

On Thu, 09 Apr 2026, Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
>
> Switch from the 10s default fence timeout on i915 to an
> infinite timeout like xe.
>
> I'm not actually convinced we want an infinite timeout here because
> the fence could be from an entirely different device/driver, and
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to allow our driver to get
> completely stuck due to other peoples' bugs. So I'm thinking we
> should probably have a sensible timeout also on xe. But I want to
> at least see what CI says about this new reset_fence thing with
> an infinite timeout...

My only goal here is to get rid of i915_fence_timeout(), and remove
i915_config.h from xe compat.

BR,
Jani.

>
> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> Cc: Jouni Högander <jouni.hogander@intel.com>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> index 83ccf13c4b16..a9d0e1241642 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
> @@ -7169,7 +7169,7 @@ static void intel_atomic_commit_fence_wait(struct intel_atomic_state *intel_stat
>  			continue;
>  
>  		ret = dma_fence_wait_any_timeout(fences, reset_fence ? 2 : 1, false,
> -						 i915_fence_timeout(), NULL);
> +						 MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT, NULL);
>  		if (ret <= 0)
>  			break;

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel