Op 20-09-16 om 14:51 schreef Chris Wilson: > 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 <[email protected]> >> CC: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]> >> CC: Tvrtko Ursulin <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <[email protected]> >> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <[email protected]> (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 <[email protected]> > -Chris > Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
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