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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst index 2a5132327617..9f3afab6c06a 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/xe.rst @@ -70,24 +70,6 @@ When the time comes for Xe, the protection will be lifted on Xe and kept in i915 Xe – Pre-Merge Goals - Work-in-Progress ======================================= -Drm_scheduler -------------- -Xe primarily uses Firmware based scheduling (GuC FW). However, it will use -drm_scheduler as the scheduler ‘frontend’ for userspace submission in order to -resolve syncobj and dma-buf implicit sync dependencies. However, drm_scheduler is -not yet prepared to handle the 1-to-1 relationship between drm_gpu_scheduler and -drm_sched_entity. - -Deeper changes to drm_scheduler should *not* be required to get Xe accepted, but -some consensus needs to be reached between Xe and other community drivers that -could also benefit from this work, for coupling FW based/assisted submission such -as the ARM’s new Mali GPU driver, and others. - -As a key measurable result, the patch series introducing Xe itself shall not -depend on any other patch touching drm_scheduler itself that was not yet merged -through drm-misc. This, by itself, already includes the reach of an agreement for -uniform 1 to 1 relationship implementation / usage across drivers. - ASYNC VM_BIND ------------- Although having a common DRM level IOCTL for VM_BIND is not a requirement to get @@ -169,6 +151,24 @@ Xe – uAPI high level overview Xe – Pre-Merge Goals - Completed ================================ +Drm_scheduler +------------- +Xe primarily uses Firmware based scheduling (GuC FW). However, it will use +drm_scheduler as the scheduler ‘frontend’ for userspace submission in order to +resolve syncobj and dma-buf implicit sync dependencies. However, drm_scheduler is +not yet prepared to handle the 1-to-1 relationship between drm_gpu_scheduler and +drm_sched_entity. + +Deeper changes to drm_scheduler should *not* be required to get Xe accepted, but +some consensus needs to be reached between Xe and other community drivers that +could also benefit from this work, for coupling FW based/assisted submission such +as the ARM’s new Mali GPU driver, and others. + +As a key measurable result, the patch series introducing Xe itself shall not +depend on any other patch touching drm_scheduler itself that was not yet merged +through drm-misc. This, by itself, already includes the reach of an agreement for +uniform 1 to 1 relationship implementation / usage across drivers. + Long running compute: minimal data structure/scaffolding -------------------------------------------------------- The generic scheduler code needs to include the handling of endless compute |