The goal here was to minimise doing any thing or any check inside the
kernel that was not strictly required. For a userspace that assumes
complete control over the cache domains, the kernel is usually using
outdated information and may trigger clflushes where none were
required.
However, swapping is a situation where userspace has no knowledge of the
domain transfer, and will leave the object in the CPU cache. The kernel
must flush this out to the backing storage prior to use with the GPU. As
we use an asynchronous task tracked by an implicit fence for this, we
also need to cancel the ASYNC flag on the object so that the object will
wait for the clflush to complete before being executed. This also absolves
userspace of the responsibility imposed by commit 77ae995789 ("drm/i915:
Enable userspace to opt-out of implicit fencing") that its needed to ensure
that the object was out of the CPU cache prior to use on the GPU.
Fixes: 77ae995789 ("drm/i915: Enable userspace to opt-out of implicit fencing")
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101571
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170721145037.25105-5-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
2 clflushes on two different objects are not ordered, and so do not
belong to the same timeline (context). Either we use a unique context
for each, or we reserve a special global context to mean unordered.
Ideally, we would reserve 0 to mean unordered (DMA_FENCE_NO_CONTEXT) to
have the same semantics everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170503093924.5320-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Flushing the cachelines for an object is slow, can be as much as 100ms
for a large framebuffer. We currently do this under the struct_mutex BKL
on execution or on pageflip. But now with the ability to add fences to
obj->resv for both flips and execbuf (and we naturally wait on the fence
before CPU access), we can move the clflush operation to a workqueue and
signal a fence for completion, thereby doing the work asynchronously and
not blocking the driver or its clients.
v2: Introduce i915_gem_clflush.h and use a new name, split out some
extras into separate patches.
Suggested-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170222114049.28456-5-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Chris Wilson