drm/i915: Move timeline from GTT to ring

In the future, we want to move a request between engines. To achieve
this, we first realise that we have two timelines in effect here. The
first runs through the GTT is required for ordering vma access, which is
tracked currently by engine. The second is implied by sequential
execution of commands inside the ringbuffer. This timeline is one that
maps to userspace's expectations when submitting requests (i.e. given the
same context, batch A is executed before batch B). As the rings's
timelines map to userspace and the GTT timeline an implementation
detail, move the timeline from the GTT into the ring itself (per-context
in logical-ring-contexts/execlists, or a global per-engine timeline for
the shared ringbuffers in legacy submission.

The two timelines are still assumed to be equivalent at the moment (no
migrating requests between engines yet) and so we can simply move from
one to the other without adding extra ordering.

v2: Reinforce that one isn't allowed to mix the engine execution
timeline with the client timeline from userspace (on the ring).

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/20180502163839.3248-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
index fd679cec9ac6..da53aa2973a7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ struct intel_ring {
 	struct i915_vma *vma;
 	void *vaddr;
 
+	struct intel_timeline *timeline;
 	struct list_head request_list;
 	struct list_head active_link;
 
@@ -768,7 +769,9 @@ intel_write_status_page(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, int reg, u32 value)
 #define CNL_HWS_CSB_WRITE_INDEX		0x2f
 
 struct intel_ring *
-intel_engine_create_ring(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, int size);
+intel_engine_create_ring(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
+			 struct i915_gem_timeline *timeline,
+			 int size);
 int intel_ring_pin(struct intel_ring *ring,
 		   struct drm_i915_private *i915,
 		   unsigned int offset_bias);