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authorDanilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com>2023-11-10 01:16:33 +0100
committerDanilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com>2023-11-10 02:54:29 +0100
commita78422e9dff366b3a46ae44caf6ec8ded9c9fc2f (patch)
tree6fd1914c81a6743b425eff0c270eefc79e7da55d /Documentation/gpu
parent36245bd02e88e68ac5955c2958c968879d7b75a9 (diff)
drm/sched: implement dynamic job-flow control
Currently, job flow control is implemented simply by limiting the number of jobs in flight. Therefore, a scheduler is initialized with a credit limit that corresponds to the number of jobs which can be sent to the hardware. This implies that for each job, drivers need to account for the maximum job size possible in order to not overflow the ring buffer. However, there are drivers, such as Nouveau, where the job size has a rather large range. For such drivers it can easily happen that job submissions not even filling the ring by 1% can block subsequent submissions, which, in the worst case, can lead to the ring run dry. In order to overcome this issue, allow for tracking the actual job size instead of the number of jobs. Therefore, add a field to track a job's credit count, which represents the number of credits a job contributes to the scheduler's credit limit. Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov89@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20231110001638.71750-1-dakr@redhat.com
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@@ -552,6 +552,12 @@ Overview
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
:doc: Overview
+Flow Control
+------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
+ :doc: Flow Control
+
Scheduler Function References
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