Drop the reference to the deprecated re-submission of jobs.
Mention that it isn't the job which times out, but the hardware fence.
Mention that drivers can try a context based reset as well.
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koe...@amd.com>
---
include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h | 15 ++++++---------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
index 1d60eab747de..ac1d7222f5b2 100644
--- a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
+++ b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
@@ -418,8 +418,8 @@ struct drm_sched_backend_ops {
struct dma_fence *(*run_job)(struct drm_sched_job *sched_job);
/**
- * @timedout_job: Called when a job has taken too long to execute,
- * to trigger GPU recovery.
+ * @timedout_job: Called when a hardware fence didn't signal in a
+ * configurable amount of time to trigger GPU recovery.
*
* This method is called in a workqueue context.
*
@@ -430,9 +430,8 @@ struct drm_sched_backend_ops {
* scheduler thread and cancel the timeout work, guaranteeing that
* nothing is queued while we reset the hardware queue
* 2. Try to gracefully stop non-faulty jobs (optional)
- * 3. Issue a GPU reset (driver-specific)
- * 4. Re-submit jobs using drm_sched_resubmit_jobs()
- * 5. Restart the scheduler using drm_sched_start(). At that point, new
+ * 3. Issue a GPU or context reset (driver-specific)
+ * 4. Restart the scheduler using drm_sched_start(). At that point, new
* jobs can be queued, and the scheduler thread is unblocked
*
* Note that some GPUs have distinct hardware queues but need to reset
@@ -448,16 +447,14 @@ struct drm_sched_backend_ops {
* 2. Try to gracefully stop non-faulty jobs on all queues impacted by
* the reset (optional)
* 3. Issue a GPU reset on all faulty queues (driver-specific)
- * 4. Re-submit jobs on all schedulers impacted by the reset using
- * drm_sched_resubmit_jobs()
- * 5. Restart all schedulers that were stopped in step #1 using
+ * 4. Restart all schedulers that were stopped in step #1 using
* drm_sched_start()
*
* Return DRM_GPU_SCHED_STAT_NOMINAL, when all is normal,
* and the underlying driver has started or completed recovery.
*
* Return DRM_GPU_SCHED_STAT_ENODEV, if the device is no longer
- * available, i.e. has been unplugged.
+ * available, i.e. has been unplugged or failed to recover.
*/
enum drm_gpu_sched_stat (*timedout_job)(struct drm_sched_job
*sched_job);
--
2.34.1
