drm/i915/scheduler: Execute requests in order of priorities

Track the priority of each request and use it to determine the order in
which we submit requests to the hardware via execlists.

The priority of the request is determined by the user (eventually via
the context) but may be overridden at any time by the driver. When we set
the priority of the request, we bump the priority of all of its
dependencies to match - so that a high priority drawing operation is not
stuck behind a background task.

When the request is ready to execute (i.e. we have signaled the submit
fence following completion of all its dependencies, including third
party fences), we put the request into a priority sorted rbtree to be
submitted to the hardware. If the request is higher priority than all
pending requests, it will be submitted on the next context-switch
interrupt as soon as the hardware has completed the current request. We
do not currently preempt any current execution to immediately run a very
high priority request, at least not yet.

One more limitation, is that this is first implementation is for
execlists only so currently limited to gen8/gen9.

v2: Replace recursive priority inheritance bumping with an iterative
depth-first search list.
v3: list_next_entry() for walking lists
v4: Explain how the dfs solves the recursion problem with PI.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161114204105.29171-8-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h
index 943c39d2a62a..e2b077df2da0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct i915_dependency {
 	struct i915_priotree *signaler;
 	struct list_head signal_link;
 	struct list_head wait_link;
+	struct list_head dfs_link;
 	unsigned long flags;
 #define I915_DEPENDENCY_ALLOC BIT(0)
 };
@@ -64,6 +65,10 @@ struct i915_dependency {
 struct i915_priotree {
 	struct list_head signalers_list; /* those before us, we depend upon */
 	struct list_head waiters_list; /* those after us, they depend upon us */
+	struct rb_node node;
+	int priority;
+#define I915_PRIORITY_MAX 1024
+#define I915_PRIORITY_MIN (-I915_PRIORITY_MAX)
 };
 
 /**
@@ -194,9 +199,6 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_request {
 	struct drm_i915_file_private *file_priv;
 	/** file_priv list entry for this request */
 	struct list_head client_list;
-
-	/** Link in the execlist submission queue, guarded by execlist_lock. */
-	struct list_head execlist_link;
 };
 
 extern const struct dma_fence_ops i915_fence_ops;