drm/i915/gt: Remove timeslice suppression

In the next^W future patch, we remove the strict priority system and
continuously re-evaluate the relative priority of tasks. As such we need
to enable the timeslice whenever there is more than one context in the
pipeline. This simplifies the decision and removes some of the tweaks to
suppress timeslicing, allowing us to lift the timeslice enabling to a
common spot at the end of running the submission tasklet.

One consequence of the suppression is that it was reducing fairness
between virtual engines on an over saturated system; undermining the
principle for timeslicing.

v2: Commentary
v3: Commentary for the right cancel_timer()
v4: Add tracing for why we need a timeslice

Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2802
Testcase: igt/gem_exec_balancer/fairslice
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210107132322.28373-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
index 430066e5884c..df62e793e747 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
@@ -239,16 +239,6 @@ struct intel_engine_execlists {
 	unsigned int port_mask;
 
 	/**
-	 * @switch_priority_hint: Second context priority.
-	 *
-	 * We submit multiple contexts to the HW simultaneously and would
-	 * like to occasionally switch between them to emulate timeslicing.
-	 * To know when timeslicing is suitable, we track the priority of
-	 * the context submitted second.
-	 */
-	int switch_priority_hint;
-
-	/**
 	 * @queue_priority_hint: Highest pending priority.
 	 *
 	 * When we add requests into the queue, or adjust the priority of