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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c index c2a5c48c7541..0acd6baa3c88 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c @@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ static signed long i915_fence_wait(struct dma_fence *fence, bool interruptible, signed long timeout) { - return i915_request_wait(to_request(fence), interruptible, timeout); + return i915_request_wait(to_request(fence), + interruptible | I915_WAIT_PRIORITY, + timeout); } static void i915_fence_release(struct dma_fence *fence) @@ -1136,8 +1138,23 @@ long i915_request_wait(struct i915_request *rq, if (__i915_spin_request(rq, state, 5)) goto out; - if (flags & I915_WAIT_PRIORITY) + /* + * This client is about to stall waiting for the GPU. In many cases + * this is undesirable and limits the throughput of the system, as + * many clients cannot continue processing user input/output whilst + * blocked. RPS autotuning may take tens of milliseconds to respond + * to the GPU load and thus incurs additional latency for the client. + * We can circumvent that by promoting the GPU frequency to maximum + * before we sleep. This makes the GPU throttle up much more quickly + * (good for benchmarks and user experience, e.g. window animations), + * but at a cost of spending more power processing the workload + * (bad for battery). + */ + if (flags & I915_WAIT_PRIORITY) { + if (!i915_request_started(rq) && INTEL_GEN(rq->i915) >= 6) + gen6_rps_boost(rq); i915_schedule_bump_priority(rq, I915_PRIORITY_WAIT); + } wait.tsk = current; if (dma_fence_add_callback(&rq->fence, &wait.cb, request_wait_wake)) |