We always try to do an unlocked wait before resorting to having a
blocking wait under the mutex - so we very rarely have to sleep under
the struct_mutex. However, when we do we want that wait to be as short
as possible as the struct_mutex is our BKL that will stall the driver and
all clients.

There should be no impact for all typical workloads.

v2: Move down a layer to apply to all waits.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
index bacb875a6ef3..7be17d9c304b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.c
@@ -1054,6 +1054,15 @@ long i915_wait_request(struct drm_i915_gem_request *req,
        if (!timeout)
                return -ETIME;
 
+       /* Very rarely do we wait whilst holding the mutex. We try to always
+        * do an unlocked wait before using a locked wait. However, when we
+        * have to resort to a locked wait, we want that wait to be as short
+        * as possible as the struct_mutex is our BKL that will stall the
+        * driver and all clients.
+        */
+       if (flags & I915_WAIT_LOCKED && req->engine->schedule)
+               req->engine->schedule(req, I915_PRIORITY_MAX);
+
        trace_i915_gem_request_wait_begin(req);
 
        add_wait_queue(&req->execute, &exec);
-- 
2.11.0

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