Quoting Bloomfield, Jon (2019-07-26 00:21:47) > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 4:17 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>; Joonas Lahtinen > > <[email protected]>; Ursulin, Tvrtko > > <[email protected]>; > > Bloomfield, Jon <[email protected]> > > Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: Replace hangcheck by heartbeats > > > > Replace sampling the engine state every so often with a periodic > > heartbeat request to measure the health of an engine. This is coupled > > with the forced-preemption to allow long running requests to survive so > > long as they do not block other users. > > Can you explain why we would need this at all if we have forced-preemption? > Forced preemption guarantees that an engine cannot interfere with the timely > execution of other contexts. If it hangs, but nothing else wants to use the > engine > then do we care?
We may not have something else waiting to use the engine, but we may have users waiting for the response where we need to detect the GPU hang to prevent an infinite wait / stuck processes and infinite power drain. There is also the secondary task of flushing idle barriers. > Power, obviously. But I'm not everything can be pre-empted. If a compute > context is running on an engine, and no other contexts require that engine, > then is it right to nuke it just because it's busy in a long running thread? Yes. Unless you ask that we implement GPU-isolation where not even the kernel is allowed to use a particular set of engines. -Chris _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
