drm/i915/gt: Switch to manual evaluation of RPS

As with the realisation for soft-rc6, we respond to idling the engines
within microseconds, far faster than the response times for HW RC6 and
RPS. Furthermore, our fast parking upon idle, prevents HW RPS from
running for many desktop workloads, as the RPS evaluation intervals are
on the order of tens of milliseconds, but the typical workload is just a
couple of milliseconds, but yet we still need to determine the best
frequency for user latency versus power.

Recognising that the HW evaluation intervals are a poor fit, and that
they were deprecated [in bspec at least] from gen10, start to wean
ourselves off them and replace the EI with a timer and our accurate
busy-stats. The principle benefit of manually evaluating RPS intervals
is that we can be more responsive for better performance and powersaving
for both spiky workloads and steady-state.

Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/1698
Fixes: 98479ada421a ("drm/i915/gt: Treat idling as a RPS downclock event")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200429205446.3259-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
index 83b1f95ebf12..f760e2ef285b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
@@ -555,6 +555,11 @@ struct intel_engine_cs {
 		 * Idle is defined as active == 0, active is active > 0.
 		 */
 		ktime_t start;
+
+		/**
+		 * @rps: Utilisation at last RPS sampling.
+		 */
+		ktime_t rps;
 	} stats;
 
 	struct {