drm/i915: Hack and slash, throttle execbuffer hogs

Apply backpressure to hogs that emit requests faster than the GPU can
process them by waiting for their ring to be less than half-full before
proceeding with taking the struct_mutex.

This is a gross hack to apply throttling backpressure, the long term
goal is to remove the struct_mutex contention so that each client
naturally waits, preferably in an asynchronous, nonblocking fashion
(pipelined operations for the win), for their own resources and never
blocks another client within the driver at least. (Realtime priority
goals would extend to ensuring that resource contention favours high
priority clients as well.)

This patch only limits excessive request production and does not attempt
to throttle clients that block waiting for eviction (either global GTT or
system memory) or any other global resources, see above for the long term
goal.

No microbenchmarks are harmed (to the best of my knowledge).

Testcase: igt/gem_exec_schedule/pi-ringfull-*
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190207071829.5574-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index b889b27f8aeb..7f841dba87b3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -49,19 +49,6 @@ static inline u32 intel_hws_seqno_address(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 		I915_GEM_HWS_INDEX_ADDR);
 }
 
-static unsigned int __intel_ring_space(unsigned int head,
-				       unsigned int tail,
-				       unsigned int size)
-{
-	/*
-	 * "If the Ring Buffer Head Pointer and the Tail Pointer are on the
-	 * same cacheline, the Head Pointer must not be greater than the Tail
-	 * Pointer."
-	 */
-	GEM_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(size));
-	return (head - tail - CACHELINE_BYTES) & (size - 1);
-}
-
 unsigned int intel_ring_update_space(struct intel_ring *ring)
 {
 	unsigned int space;