drm/i915: Prioritise non-busywait semaphore workloads

We don't want to busywait on the GPU if we have other work to do. If we
give non-busywaiting workloads higher (initial) priority than workloads
that require a busywait, we will prioritise work that is ready to run
immediately. We then also have to be careful that we don't give earlier
semaphores an accidental boost because later work doesn't wait on other
rings, hence we keep a history of semaphore usage of the dependency chain.

v2: Stop rolling the bits into a chain and just use a flag in case this
request or any of our dependencies use a semaphore. The rolling around
was contagious as Tvrtko was heard to fall off his chair.

Testcase: igt/gem_exec_schedule/semaphore
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190301170901.8340-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
index 50018ad30233..3f0a4d56bd37 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ void i915_sched_node_init(struct i915_sched_node *node)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->waiters_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->link);
 	node->attr.priority = I915_PRIORITY_INVALID;
+	node->flags = 0;
 }
 
 static struct i915_dependency *
@@ -69,6 +70,11 @@ bool __i915_sched_node_add_dependency(struct i915_sched_node *node,
 		dep->signaler = signal;
 		dep->flags = flags;
 
+		/* Keep track of whether anyone on this chain has a semaphore */
+		if (signal->flags & I915_SCHED_HAS_SEMAPHORE &&
+		    !node_started(signal))
+			node->flags |= I915_SCHED_HAS_SEMAPHORE;
+
 		ret = true;
 	}