drm/i915: Break busywaiting for requests on pending signals
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:32:57 +0000 (11:32 +0000)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Fri, 18 Dec 2015 16:11:47 +0000 (17:11 +0100)
commit91b0c352ace9afec1fb51590c7b8bd60e0eb9fbd
tree526d5865862b23b1fb3d01a2050ec3b89065b09f
parentcbc68dc9c8bb127e712fa650dc4d5cd3d4349ba1
drm/i915: Break busywaiting for requests on pending signals

The busywait in __i915_spin_request() does not respect pending signals
and so may consume the entire timeslice for the task instead of
returning to userspace to handle the signal.

In the worst case this could cause a delay in signal processing of 20ms,
which would be a noticeable jitter in cursor tracking. If a higher
resolution signal was being used, for example to provide fairness of a
server timeslices between clients, we could expect to detect some
unfairness between clients (i.e. some windows not updating as fast as
others). This issue was noticed when inspecting a report of poor
interactivity resulting from excessively high __i915_spin_request usage.

Fixes regression from
commit 2def4ad99befa25775dd2f714fdd4d92faec6e34 [v4.2]
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Apr 7 16:20:41 2015 +0100

     drm/i915: Optimistically spin for the request completion

v2: Try to assess the impact of the bug

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc; "Rogozhkin, Dmitry V" <dmitry.v.rogozhkin@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen@intel.com>
Cc: "Rantala, Valtteri" <valtteri.rantala@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1449833608-22125-2-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c