drm/i915: Delay semaphore submission until the start of the signaler

Currently we submit the semaphore busywait as soon as the signaler is
submitted to HW. However, we may submit the signaler as the tail of a
batch of requests, and even not as the first context in the HW list,
i.e. the busywait may start spinning far in advance of the signaler even
starting.

If we wait until the request before the signaler is completed before
submitting the busywait, we prevent the busywait from starting too
early, if the signaler is not first in submission port.

To handle the case where the signaler is at the start of the second (or
later) submission port, we will need to delay the execution callback
until we know the context is promoted to port0. A challenge for later.

Fixes: e88619646971 ("drm/i915: Use HW semaphores for inter-engine synchroni
sation on gen8+")
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/20190501114541.10077-9-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
index af8c9fa5e066..d06c45305b03 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
@@ -771,6 +771,21 @@ err_unlock:
 }
 
 static int
+i915_request_await_start(struct i915_request *rq, struct i915_request *signal)
+{
+	if (list_is_first(&signal->ring_link, &signal->ring->request_list))
+		return 0;
+
+	signal = list_prev_entry(signal, ring_link);
+	if (i915_timeline_sync_is_later(rq->timeline, &signal->fence))
+		return 0;
+
+	return i915_sw_fence_await_dma_fence(&rq->submit,
+					     &signal->fence, 0,
+					     I915_FENCE_GFP);
+}
+
+static int
 emit_semaphore_wait(struct i915_request *to,
 		    struct i915_request *from,
 		    gfp_t gfp)
@@ -788,6 +803,10 @@ emit_semaphore_wait(struct i915_request *to,
 						     &from->fence, 0,
 						     I915_FENCE_GFP);
 
+	err = i915_request_await_start(to, from);
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
 	err = i915_sw_fence_await_dma_fence(&to->semaphore,
 					    &from->fence, 0,
 					    I915_FENCE_GFP);