Instead of throttling and execbuffer time, have the application ask to
throttle explicitly. This allows the throttle to happen less often, and
without holding the DRM lock.
The code was discarding the dri_bo_gem structure and saving only the kernel
handle. This lost the mmap address, causing pain when the next buffer user
wanted to map the buffer.
set_domain can block waiting for rendering to complete. If that process is
interrupted by a signal, it can return -EINTR. Catch this error in all
callers and correctly deal with the result.
Object domain transfer can involve adding flush ops to the request queue,
and so the DRM lock must be held to avoid having the X server smash pointers
badly.
The interrupt enable register cannot be used to temporarily disable
interrupts, instead use the interrupt mask register.
Note that this change means that a pile of buffers will be left stuck on the
chip as the final interrupts will not be recognized to come and drain things.
When reading from multiple domains, allow each cache to continue
to hold data until writes occur somewhere. This is done by
first leaving the read_domains alone at bind time (presumably the CPU read
cache contains valid data still) and then in set_domain, if no write_domain
is specified, the new read domains are simply merged into the existing read
domains.
A huge comment was added above set_domain to explain how things are
expected to work.
Newly allocated objects need to be in the CPU domain as they've just been
cleared by the CPU. Also, unmapping objects from the GTT needs to put them
into the CPU domain, both to flush rendering as well as to ensure that any
paging action gets flushed before we remap to the GTT.
Commands in the ring are parsed and started when the head pointer passes by
them, but they are not necessarily finished until a MI_FLUSH happens. This
patch inserts a flush after the execbuffer (the only place a flush wasn't
already happening).
Recording the tail pointer in a local variable improves performance, but if
someone messes up and fails to reload at the right time, the driver will
write commands to the wrong part of the ring and scramble execution badly.
This change (available by setting I915_RING_VALIDATE to 1) checks to make
sure the cached tail pointer matches the hardware tail pointer at each ring
buffer addition, calling BUG_ON when that's not true.
There are now 3 lists. Active is buffers currently in the ringbuffer.
Flushing is not in the ringbuffer, but needs a flush before unbinding.
Inactive is as before. This prevents object_free → unbind →
wait_rendering → object_reference and a kernel oops about weird refcounting.
This also avoids an synchronous extra flush and wait when freeing a buffer
which had a write_domain set (such as a temporary rendered to and then from
using the 2d engine). It will sit around on the flushing list until the
appropriate flush gets emitted, or we need the GTT space for another
operation.
Keith Packard
Eric Anholt
Dave Airlie
Dave Airlie
Alex Deucher
Owain Ainsworth
Jie Luo
Robert Noland