Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk> writes:

> Since __i915_request_queue() may be called from hardirq (timer) context,
> we cannot use local_bh_disable/enable at the lower level. As we do want
> to kick the tasklet to speed up initial submission or preemption for
> normal client submission, lift it to the normal process context
> callpath.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> index 4021334dd2c5..8a2bc1d317e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> @@ -1203,12 +1203,10 @@ void __i915_request_queue(struct i915_request *rq,
>        * decide whether to preempt the entire chain so that it is ready to
>        * run at the earliest possible convenience.
>        */
> -     local_bh_disable();
>       i915_sw_fence_commit(&rq->semaphore);
>       if (attr && rq->engine->schedule)
>               rq->engine->schedule(rq, attr);
>       i915_sw_fence_commit(&rq->submit);
> -     local_bh_enable(); /* Kick the execlists tasklet if just scheduled */

Was this here to only optimize the latency from schedule
to resubmission?

Or is it actually guarding something?

-Mika

>  }
>  
>  void i915_request_add(struct i915_request *rq)
> @@ -1247,7 +1245,9 @@ void i915_request_add(struct i915_request *rq)
>       if (list_empty(&rq->sched.signalers_list))
>               attr.priority |= I915_PRIORITY_WAIT;
>  
> +     local_bh_disable();
>       __i915_request_queue(rq, &attr);
> +     local_bh_enable(); /* Kick the execlists tasklet if just scheduled */
>  
>       /*
>        * In typical scenarios, we do not expect the previous request on
> -- 
> 2.23.0.rc1
>
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