drm/i915/execlists: Don't merely skip submission if maybe timeslicing

Normally, we try and skip submission if ELSP[1] is filled. However, we
may desire to enable timeslicing due to the queue priority, even if
ELSP[1] itself does not require timeslicing. That is the queue is equal
priority to ELSP[0] and higher priority then ELSP[1]. Previously, we
would wait until the context switch to preempt the current ELSP[1], but
with timeslicing, we want to preempt ELSP[0] and replace it with the
queue.

In writing the test case, it become quickly apparent that we were also
suppressing the tasklet during promotion and so failing to notice when
the queue started requiring timeslicing.

Fixes: 2229adc81380 ("drm/i915/execlist: Trim immediate timeslice expiry")
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/20191018072027.31948-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
index 7eefccff39bf..07d243acf553 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
@@ -52,22 +52,4 @@ static inline void i915_priolist_free(struct i915_priolist *p)
 		__i915_priolist_free(p);
 }
 
-static inline bool i915_scheduler_need_preempt(int prio, int active)
-{
-	/*
-	 * Allow preemption of low -> normal -> high, but we do
-	 * not allow low priority tasks to preempt other low priority
-	 * tasks under the impression that latency for low priority
-	 * tasks does not matter (as much as background throughput),
-	 * so kiss.
-	 *
-	 * More naturally we would write
-	 *	prio >= max(0, last);
-	 * except that we wish to prevent triggering preemption at the same
-	 * priority level: the task that is running should remain running
-	 * to preserve FIFO ordering of dependencies.
-	 */
-	return prio > max(I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL - 1, active);
-}
-
 #endif /* _I915_SCHEDULER_H_ */