On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 02:58:19PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote: > While user space has control over the scheduling priority of its page > flipping thread, the corresponding work the driver schedules for MMIO > flips always runs from the generic system workqueue which has some > scheduling overhead due it being CPU bound. This would hinder an > application that wants more stringent guarantees over flip timing (to > avoid missing a flip at the next frame count). > > Fix this by scheduling the work from the unbound system workqueue > which provides for minimal scheduling latency. > > v2: > - Use an unbound workqueue instead of a high-prio one. (Tvrtko, Chris) > v3: > - Use the system unbound wq instead of a dedicated one. (Maarten) > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97775 > Testcase: igt/kms_cursor_legacy > CC: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk> > CC: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> > CC: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursu...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.d...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursu...@intel.com> (v1)
We violate the unbound_wq rules no worse than the ordinary system_wq, and this brings mmioflip on a par with nonblocking atomic modesets, so Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk> -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
