Originally we set the priority to max upon inserting the request into
the execlists queue (and removing it from the scheduler lists). We could
then use the prio==INT_MAX as a shortcut within execlists_schedule() to
detect the end of the dependency chain. Since commit 1f181225f8
("drm/i915/execlists: Keep request->priority for its lifetime") this is
no longer true as we use the request completion as an indicator the
schedule dependency chain is complete instead. (This allows us to then
reschedule requests even when its context is in flight.) However, this
makes the GEM_BUG_ON() inside execlists_schedule() racy as we may change
the rq->prio at the same time. As the assertion is useful, let's keep
the assertion and remove the micro-optimisation.
Fixes: 1f181225f8 ("drm/i915/execlists: Keep request->priority for its lifetime")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171024115501.21033-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 64b80085dd)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Back in commit a4b2b01523 ("drm/i915: Don't mark an execlists
context-switch when idle") we noticed the presence of late
context-switch interrupts. We were able to filter those out by looking
at whether the ELSP remained active, but in commit beecec9017
("drm/i915/execlists: Preemption!") that became problematic as we now
anticipate receiving a context-switch event for preemption while ELSP
may be empty. To restore the spurious interrupt suppression, add a
counter for the expected number of pending context-switches and skip if
we do not need to handle this interrupt to make forward progress.
v2: Don't forget to switch on for preempt.
v3: Reduce the counter to a on/off boolean tracker. Declare the HW as
active when we first submit, and idle after the final completion event
(with which we confirm the HW says it is idle), and track each source
of activity separately. With a finite number of sources, it should aide
us in debugging which gets stuck.
Fixes: beecec9017 ("drm/i915/execlists: Preemption!")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michal Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171023213237.26536-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 4a118ecbe9)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
In the next patch, we want to reduce the lock coverage within the
shrinker, and one of the dangerous walks we have is over obj->vma_list.
We are only walking the obj->vma_list in order to check whether it has
been permanently pinned by HW access, typically via use on the scanout.
But we have a couple of other long term pins, the context objects for
which we currently have to check the individual vma pin_count. If we
instead mark these using obj->pin_display, we can forgo the dangerous
and sometimes slow list iteration.
v2: Rearrange code to try and avoid confusion from false associations
due to arrangement of whitespace along with rebasing on obj->pin_global.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171013202621.7276-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
When we write to ELSP, it triggers a context preemption at the earliest
arbitration point (3DPRIMITIVE, some PIPECONTROLs, a few other
operations and the explicit MI_ARB_CHECK). If this is to the same
context, it triggers a LITE_RESTORE where the RING_TAIL is merely
updated (used currently to chain requests from the same context
together, avoiding bubbles). However, if it is to a different context, a
full context-switch is performed and it will start to execute the new
context saving the image of the old for later execution.
Previously we avoided preemption by only submitting a new context when
the old was idle. But now we wish embrace it, and if the new request has
a higher priority than the currently executing request, we write to the
ELSP regardless, thus triggering preemption, but we tell the GPU to
switch to our special preemption context (not the target). In the
context-switch interrupt handler, we know that the previous contexts
have finished execution and so can unwind all the incomplete requests
and compute the new highest priority request to execute.
It would be feasible to avoid the switch-to-idle intermediate by
programming the ELSP with the target context. The difficulty is in
tracking which request that should be whilst maintaining the dependency
change, the error comes in with coalesced requests. As we only track the
most recent request and its priority, we may run into the issue of being
tricked in preempting a high priority request that was followed by a
low priority request from the same context (e.g. for PI); worse still
that earlier request may be our own dependency and the order then broken
by preemption. By injecting the switch-to-idle and then recomputing the
priority queue, we avoid the issue with tracking in-flight coalesced
requests. Having tried the preempt-to-busy approach, and failed to find
a way around the coalesced priority issue, Michal's original proposal to
inject an idle context (based on handling GuC preemption) succeeds.
The current heuristic for deciding when to preempt are only if the new
request is of higher priority, and has the privileged priority of
greater than 0. Note that the scheduler remains unfair!
v2: Disable for gen8 (bdw/bsw) as we need additional w/a for GPGPU.
Since, the feature is now conditional and not always available when we
have a scheduler, make it known via the HAS_SCHEDULER GETPARAM (now a
capability mask).
v3: Stylistic tweaks.
v4: Appease Joonas with a snippet of kerneldoc, only to fuel to fire of
the preempt vs preempting debate.
Suggested-by: Michal Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michal Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171003203453.15692-8-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
With preemption, we will want to "unsubmit" a request, taking it back
from the hw and returning it to the priority sorted execution list. In
order to know where to insert it into that list, we need to remember
its adjust priority (which may change even as it was being executed).
This also affects reset for execlists as we are now unsubmitting the
requests following the reset (rather than directly writing the ELSP for
the inflight contexts). This turns reset into an accidental preemption
point, as after the reset we may choose a different pair of contexts to
submit to hw.
GuC is not updated as this series doesn't add preemption to the GuC
submission, and so it can keep benefiting from the early pruning of the
DFS inside execlists_schedule() for a little longer. We also need to
find a way of reducing the cost of that DFS...
v2: Include priority in error-state
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171003203453.15692-6-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Given the mechanism to unwind and replay requests (designed to support
preemption), we have an alternative to the current method of
resubmitting the ELSP upon reset. Resubmitting ELSP turns out to be more
complicated than expected, due to having to handle lost context-switch
interrupts and so guessing what ELSP we need to resubmit later. Instead,
by unwinding the requests and clearing the ELSP tracking entirely, we
can then just dequeue the first pair of ready requests after resetting,
using the normal submission procedure.
Currently, the unwound requests have maximum priority and so are
guaranteed to be resubmitted upon resume. If we are lucky, we may be
able to coalesce a new request on top!
Suggested-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170916204414.32762-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
During a reset, we may skip over completed requests and lost
context-switch interrupts. Following the reset, we may then may end up
with no active requests in the ELSP (and so do not resubmit to restart
the engine), but have a queue of requests ready for execution. This is
unlikely, it requires the last request to complete after the hang is
detected, but not impossible. The outcome of this is that the engine
stalls, possibly leading to full ring and indefinite wait under
struct_mutex, eventually leading to a full driver hang.
Alternatively, we can solve this by unsubmitting the incomplete requests
and just kickstarting the tasklet. Michał has patches for that, which I
initially disliked due to the extra complexity, but the complexity of
this "simple" restart is growing...
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170916204414.32762-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
The engine also provides a mirror of the CSB write pointer in the HWSP,
but not of our read pointer. To take advantage of this we need to
remember where we read up to on the last interrupt and continue off from
there. This poses a problem following a reset, as we don't know where
the hw will start writing from, and due to the use of power contexts we
cannot perform that query during the reset itself. So we continue the
current modus operandi of delaying the first read of the context-status
read/write pointers until after the first interrupt. With this we should
now have eliminated all uncached mmio reads in handling the
context-status interrupt, though we still have the uncached mmio writes
for submitting new work, and many uncached mmio reads in the global
interrupt handler itself. Still a step in the right direction towards
reducing our resubmit latency, although it appears lost in the noise!
v2: Cannonlake moved the CSB write index
v3: Include the sw/hwsp state in debugfs/i915_engine_info
v4: Also revert to using CSB mmio for GVT-g
v5: Prevent the compiler reloading tail (Mika)
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Cc: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170913085605.18299-6-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
The engine provides a mirror of the CSB in the HWSP. If we use the
cacheable reads from the HWSP, we can shave off a few mmio reads per
context-switch interrupt (which are quite frequent!). Just removing a
couple of mmio is not enough to actually reduce any latency, but a small
reduction in overall cpu usage.
Much appreciation for Ben dropping the bombshell that the CSB was in the
HWSP and for Michel in digging out the details.
v2: Don't be lazy, add the defines for the indices.
v3: Include the HWSP in debugfs/i915_engine_info
v4: Check for GVT-g, it currently depends on intercepting CSB mmio
v5: Fixup GVT-g mmio path
v6: Disable HWSP if VT-d is active as the iommu adds unpredictable
memory latency. (Mika)
v7: Also markup the CSB read with READ_ONCE() as it may still be an mmio
read and we want to stop the compiler from issuing a later (v.slow) reload.
Suggested-by: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Cc: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michel Thierry <michel.thierry@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170913133534.26927-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
The context descriptor is stored inside the per-engine context state, as
we only need to compute it once and access it frequently. However,
currently only intel_lrc.c has easy access, but i915_guc_submission.c
would like to frequently read it as well, and more so only ever needs
the lower 32bits. Make it an inline as the compiler should be able to
retrieve the value in less instructions than it takes to do the function
call:
add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 8/-45 (-37)
function old new delta
i915_guc_submit 621 629 +8
intel_lr_context_descriptor 45 - -45
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170912214905.21987-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Let's inherit workarounds from previous platforms that
according to wa_database and BSpec are still valid for
Cannonlake.
v2: Add missed workarounds.
v3: Rebase
v4: Remove bad chunk that was added to rc6 disable. (Ander)
Also remove A0 W/a that are not needed anymore.
v5: Rebase on top of CFL.
v6: Remove empty gen9_init_perctx_bb and gen9_init_indirectctx_bb
since they don't carry any gen10 related W/a. (by Oscar).
Also Remove A0 exclusive workaround.
v7: Remove more A0 exclusive workarounds. As pointed out by Oscar
many workarounds were changed to be A0 only so let's remove
them.
Cc: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170815231651.975-1-rodrigo.vivi@intel.com
Enables access to OA unit metrics for BDW, CHV, SKL and BXT which all
share (more-or-less) the same OA unit design.
Of particular note in comparison to Haswell: some OA unit HW config
state has become per-context state and as a consequence it is somewhat
more complicated to manage synchronous state changes from the cpu while
there's no guarantee of what context (if any) is currently actively
running on the gpu.
The periodic sampling frequency which can be particularly useful for
system-wide analysis (as opposed to command stream synchronised
MI_REPORT_PERF_COUNT commands) is perhaps the most surprising state to
have become per-context save and restored (while the OABUFFER
destination is still a shared, system-wide resource).
This support for gen8+ takes care to consider a number of timing
challenges involved in synchronously updating per-context state
primarily by programming all config state from the cpu and updating all
current and saved contexts synchronously while the OA unit is still
disabled.
The driver intentionally avoids depending on command streamer
programming to update OA state considering the lack of synchronization
between the automatic loading of OACTXCONTROL state (that includes the
periodic sampling state and enable state) on context restore and the
parsing of any general purpose BB the driver can control. I.e. this
implementation is careful to avoid the possibility of a context restore
temporarily enabling any out-of-date periodic sampling state. In
addition to the risk of transiently-out-of-date state being loaded
automatically; there are also internal HW latencies involved in the
loading of MUX configurations which would be difficult to account for
from the command streamer (and we only want to enable the unit when once
the MUX configuration is complete).
Since the Gen8+ OA unit design no longer supports clock gating the unit
off for a single given context (which effectively stopped any progress
of counters while any other context was running) and instead supports
tagging OA reports with a context ID for filtering on the CPU, it means
we can no longer hide the system-wide progress of counters from a
non-privileged application only interested in metrics for its own
context. Although we could theoretically try and subtract the progress
of other contexts before forwarding reports via read() we aren't in a
position to filter reports captured via MI_REPORT_PERF_COUNT commands.
As a result, for Gen8+, we always require the
dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid to be unset for any access to OA metrics
if not root.
v5: Drain submitted requests when enabling metric set to ensure no
lite-restore erases the context image we just updated (Lionel)
v6: In addition to drain, switch to kernel context & update all
context in place (Chris)
v7: Add missing mutex_unlock() if switching to kernel context fails
(Matthew)
v8: Simplify OA period/flex-eu-counters programming by using the
batchbuffer instead of modifying ctx-image (Lionel)
v9: Back to updating the context image (due to erroneous testing,
batchbuffer programming the OA unit doesn't actually work)
(Lionel)
Pin context before updating context image (Chris)
Drop MMIO programming now that we switch to a kernel context with
right values in initial context image (Chris)
v10: Just pin_map the contexts we want to modify or let the
configuration happen on first use (Chris)
v11: Update kernel context OA config through the batchbuffer rather
than on the fly ctx-image update (Lionel)
v12: Rework OA context registers update again by swithing away from
user contexts and reconfiguring the kernel context through the
batchbuffer and updating all the other contexts' context image.
Also take care to lock slice/subslice configuration when OA is
on. (Lionel)
v13: Request rpcs updates on all engine when updating the OA config
(Lionel)
v14: Drop any kind of rpcs management now that we monitor sseu
configuration changes in a later patch (Lionel)
Remove usleep after programming the NOA configs on Gen8+, this
doesn't seem to be needed (Lionel)
v15: Respect coding style for block comments (Chris)
v16: Add missing i915_add_request() in case we fail to emit OA
configuration (Matthew)
Signed-off-by: Robert Bragg <robert@sixbynine.org>
Signed-off-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> \o/
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
The i915_priolist are allocated within an atomic context on a path where
we wish to minimise latency. If we use a dedicated kmem_cache, we have
the advantage of a local freelist from which to service new requests
that should keep the latency impact of an allocation small. Though
currently we expect the majority of requests to be at default priority
(and so hit the preallocate priolist), once userspace starts using
priorities they are likely to use many fine grained policies improving
the utilisation of a private slab.
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: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170517121007.27224-9-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
All the requests at the same priority are executed in FIFO order. They
do not need to be stored in the rbtree themselves, as they are a simple
list within a level. If we move the requests at one priority into a list,
we can then reduce the rbtree to the set of priorities. This should keep
the height of the rbtree small, as the number of active priorities can not
exceed the number of active requests and should be typically only a few.
Currently, we have ~2k possible different priority levels, that may
increase to allow even more fine grained selection. Allocating those in
advance seems a waste (and may be impossible), so we opt for allocating
upon first use, and freeing after its requests are depleted. To avoid
the possibility of an allocation failure causing us to lose a request,
we preallocate the default priority (0) and bump any request to that
priority if we fail to allocate it the appropriate plist. Having a
request (that is ready to run, so not leading to corruption) execute
out-of-order is better than leaking the request (and its dependency
tree) entirely.
There should be a benefit to reducing execlists_dequeue() to principally
using a simple list (and reducing the frequency of both rbtree iteration
and balancing on erase) but for typical workloads, request coalescing
should be small enough that we don't notice any change. The main gain is
from improving PI calls to schedule, and the explicit list within a
level should make request unwinding simpler (we just need to insert at
the head of the list rather than the tail and not have to make the
rbtree search more complicated).
v2: Avoid use-after-free when deleting a depleted priolist
v3: Michał found the solution to handling the allocation failure
gracefully. If we disable all priority scheduling following the
allocation failure, those requests will be executed in fifo and we will
ensure that this request and its dependencies are in strict fifo (even
when it doesn't realise it is only a single list). Normal scheduling is
restored once we know the device is idle, until the next failure!
Suggested-by: Michał Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170517121007.27224-8-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 5/4 up/down: 391/-578 (-187)
function old new delta
execlists_submit_ports 262 471 +209
port_assign.isra - 136 +136
capture 6344 6359 +15
reset_common_ring 438 452 +14
execlists_submit_request 228 238 +10
gen8_init_common_ring 334 341 +7
intel_engine_is_idle 106 105 -1
i915_engine_info 2314 2290 -24
__i915_gem_set_wedged_BKL 485 411 -74
intel_lrc_irq_handler 1789 1604 -185
execlists_update_context 294 - -294
The most important change there is the improve to the
intel_lrc_irq_handler and excclist_submit_ports (net improvement since
execlists_update_context is now inlined).
v2: Use the port_api() for guc as well (even though currently we do not
pack any counters in there, yet) and hide all port->request_count inside
the helpers.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170517121007.27224-5-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Since unifying ringbuffer/execlist submission to use
engine->pin_context, we ensure that the intel_ring is available before
we start constructing the request. We can therefore move the assignment
of the request->ring to the central i915_gem_request_alloc() and not
require it in every engine->request_alloc() callback. Another small step
towards simplification (of the core, but at a cost of handling error
pointers in less important callers of engine->pin_context).
v2: Rearrange a few branches to reduce impact of PTR_ERR() on gcc's code
generation.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170504093308.4137-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
