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Having introduced per-context seqno, we now have a means to identity progress across the system without feel of rollback as befell the global_seqno. That is we can program a MI_SEMAPHORE_WAIT operation in advance of submission safe in the knowledge that our target seqno and address is stable. However, since we are telling the GPU to busy-spin on the target address until it matches the signaling seqno, we only want to do so when we are sure that busy-spin will be completed quickly. To achieve this we only submit the request to HW once the signaler is itself executing (modulo preemption causing us to wait longer), and we only do so for default and above priority requests (so that idle priority tasks never themselves hog the GPU waiting for others). As might be reasonably expected, HW semaphores excel in inter-engine synchronisation microbenchmarks (where the 3x reduced latency / increased throughput more than offset the power cost of spinning on a second ring) and have significant improvement (can be up to ~10%, most see no change) for single clients that utilize multiple engines (typically media players and transcoders), without regressing multiple clients that can saturate the system or changing the power envelope dramatically. v3: Drop the older NEQ branch, now we pin the signaler's HWSP anyway. v4: Tell the world and include it as part of scheduler caps. Testcase: igt/gem_exec_whisper Testcase: igt/benchmarks/gem_wsim 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/20190301170901.8340-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.