Reduce the 3 relocation paths down to the single path that accommodates
all. The primary motivation for this is to guard the relocations with a
natural fence (derived from the i915_request used to write the
relocation from the GPU).
The tradeoff in using async gpu relocations is that it increases latency
over using direct CPU relocations, for the cases where the target is
idle and accessible by the CPU. The benefit is greatly reduced lock
contention and improved concurrency by pipelining.
Note that forcing the async gpu relocations does reveal a few issues
they have. Firstly, is that they are visible as writes to gem_busy,
causing to mark some buffers are being to written to by the GPU even
though userspace only reads. Secondly is that, in combination with the
cmdparser, they can cause priority inversions. This should be the case
where the work is being put into a common workqueue losing our priority
information and so being executed in FIFO from the worker, denying us
the opportunity to reorder the requests afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200604211457.19696-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The older arches did not convert MI_STORE_DATA_IMM to using the GTT, but
left them writing to a physical address. The notes suggest that the
primary reason would be so that the writes were cache coherent, as the
CPU cache uses physical tagging. As such we did not implement the
legacy variant of MI_STORE_DATA_IMM and so left all the relocations
synchronous -- but with a small function to convert from the vma address
into the physical address, we can implement asynchronous relocs on these
older arches, fixing up a few tests that require them.
In order to be able to test the legacy paths, refactor the gpu
relocations so that we can hook them up to a selftest.
v2: Use an array of offsets not enum labels for the selftest
v3: Refactor the common igt_hexdump()
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/757
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/20200504140629.28240-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
