Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: Defer disabling the vblank IRQ until the next interrupt (for instant-off)

2015-05-03 Thread Mario Kleiner



On 04/15/2015 03:03 AM, Mario Kleiner wrote:

On 04/02/2015 01:34 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:

On vblank instant-off systems, we can get into a situation where the cost
of enabling and disabling the vblank IRQ around a drmWaitVblank query
dominates. However, we know that if the user wants the current vblank
counter, they are also very likely to immediately queue a vblank wait
and so we can keep the interrupt around and only turn it off if we have
no further vblank requests in the interrupt interval.

After vblank event delivery there is a shadow of one vblank where the
interrupt is kept alive for the user to query and queue another vblank
event. Similarly, if the user is using blocking drmWaitVblanks, the
interrupt will be disabled on the IRQ following the wait completion.
However, if the user is simply querying the current vblank counter and
timestamp, the interrupt will be disabled after every IRQ and the user
will enabled it again on the first query following the IRQ.

Testcase: igt/kms_vblank
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk
Cc: Ville Syrjälä ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com
Cc: Daniel Vetter dan...@ffwll.ch
Cc: Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net
Cc: Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com
Cc: Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com,
Cc: Mario Kleiner mario.kleiner...@gmail.com
---
  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c | 15 +--
  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
index c8a34476570a..6f5dc18779e2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
@@ -1091,9 +1091,9 @@ void drm_vblank_put(struct drm_device *dev, int
crtc)
  if (atomic_dec_and_test(vblank-refcount)) {
  if (drm_vblank_offdelay == 0)
  return;
-else if (dev-vblank_disable_immediate || drm_vblank_offdelay
 0)
+else if (drm_vblank_offdelay  0)
  vblank_disable_fn((unsigned long)vblank);
-else
+else if (!dev-vblank_disable_immediate)
  mod_timer(vblank-disable_timer,
jiffies + ((drm_vblank_offdelay * HZ)/1000));
  }
@@ -1697,6 +1697,17 @@ bool drm_handle_vblank(struct drm_device *dev,
int crtc)

  spin_lock_irqsave(dev-event_lock, irqflags);



You could move the code before the spin_lock_irqsave(dev-event_lock,
irqflags); i think it doesn't need that lock?


+if (dev-vblank_disable_immediate 
!atomic_read(vblank-refcount)) {


Also check for (drm_vblank_offdelay  0) to make sure we have a way out
of instant disable here, and the same meaning of of drm_vblank_offdelay
like we have in the current implementation.

This hunk ...


+unsigned long vbl_lock_irqflags;
+
+spin_lock_irqsave(dev-vbl_lock, vbl_lock_irqflags);
+if (atomic_read(vblank-refcount) == 0  vblank-enabled) {
+DRM_DEBUG(disabling vblank on crtc %d\n, crtc);
+vblank_disable_and_save(dev, crtc);
+}
+spin_unlock_irqrestore(dev-vbl_lock, vbl_lock_irqflags);


... is the same as a call to vblank_disable_fn((unsigned long) vblank);
Maybe replace by that call?

You could also return here already, as the code below will just take a
lock, realize vblanks are now disabled and then release the locks and exit.


+}
+
  /* Need timestamp lock to prevent concurrent execution with
   * vblank enable/disable, as this would cause inconsistent
   * or corrupted timestamps and vblank counts.



I think the logic itself is fine and at least basic testing of the patch
on a Intel HD Ironlake didn't show problems, so with the above taken
into account it would have my slightly uneasy reviewed-by.

One thing that worries me a little bit about the disable inside vblank
irq are the potential races between the disable code and the display
engine which could cause really bad off-by-one errors for clients on a
imperfect driver. These races can only happen if vblank enable or
disable happens close to or inside the vblank. This approach lets the
instant disable happen exactly inside vblank when there is the highest
chance of triggering that condition.

This doesn't seem to be a problem for intel kms, but other drivers don't
have instant disable yet, so we don't know how well we could do it
there. Additionally things like dynamic power management tend to operate
inside vblank, sometimes with funny side effects to other stuff, e.g.,
dpm on AMD, as i remember from some long debug session with Michel and
Alex last summer where dpm played a role. Therefore it seems more safe
to me to avoid actions inside vblank that could be done outside. E.g.,
instead of doing the disable inside the vblank irq one could maybe just
schedule an exact timer to do the disable a few milliseconds later in
the middle of active scanout to avoid these potential issues?

-mario


After testing this, one more thing that would make sense is to move the 
disable block at the end of drm_handle_vblank() instead of at the top.


Turns out 

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: Defer disabling the vblank IRQ until the next interrupt (for instant-off)

2015-04-14 Thread Mario Kleiner

On 04/02/2015 01:34 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:

On vblank instant-off systems, we can get into a situation where the cost
of enabling and disabling the vblank IRQ around a drmWaitVblank query
dominates. However, we know that if the user wants the current vblank
counter, they are also very likely to immediately queue a vblank wait
and so we can keep the interrupt around and only turn it off if we have
no further vblank requests in the interrupt interval.

After vblank event delivery there is a shadow of one vblank where the
interrupt is kept alive for the user to query and queue another vblank
event. Similarly, if the user is using blocking drmWaitVblanks, the
interrupt will be disabled on the IRQ following the wait completion.
However, if the user is simply querying the current vblank counter and
timestamp, the interrupt will be disabled after every IRQ and the user
will enabled it again on the first query following the IRQ.

Testcase: igt/kms_vblank
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk
Cc: Ville Syrjälä ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com
Cc: Daniel Vetter dan...@ffwll.ch
Cc: Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net
Cc: Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com
Cc: Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com,
Cc: Mario Kleiner mario.kleiner...@gmail.com
---
  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c | 15 +--
  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
index c8a34476570a..6f5dc18779e2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
@@ -1091,9 +1091,9 @@ void drm_vblank_put(struct drm_device *dev, int crtc)
if (atomic_dec_and_test(vblank-refcount)) {
if (drm_vblank_offdelay == 0)
return;
-   else if (dev-vblank_disable_immediate || drm_vblank_offdelay  
0)
+   else if (drm_vblank_offdelay  0)
vblank_disable_fn((unsigned long)vblank);
-   else
+   else if (!dev-vblank_disable_immediate)
mod_timer(vblank-disable_timer,
  jiffies + ((drm_vblank_offdelay * HZ)/1000));
}
@@ -1697,6 +1697,17 @@ bool drm_handle_vblank(struct drm_device *dev, int crtc)

spin_lock_irqsave(dev-event_lock, irqflags);



You could move the code before the spin_lock_irqsave(dev-event_lock, 
irqflags); i think it doesn't need that lock?



+   if (dev-vblank_disable_immediate  !atomic_read(vblank-refcount)) {


Also check for (drm_vblank_offdelay  0) to make sure we have a way out 
of instant disable here, and the same meaning of of drm_vblank_offdelay 
like we have in the current implementation.


This hunk ...


+   unsigned long vbl_lock_irqflags;
+
+   spin_lock_irqsave(dev-vbl_lock, vbl_lock_irqflags);
+   if (atomic_read(vblank-refcount) == 0  vblank-enabled) {
+   DRM_DEBUG(disabling vblank on crtc %d\n, crtc);
+   vblank_disable_and_save(dev, crtc);
+   }
+   spin_unlock_irqrestore(dev-vbl_lock, vbl_lock_irqflags);


... is the same as a call to vblank_disable_fn((unsigned long) vblank);
Maybe replace by that call?

You could also return here already, as the code below will just take a 
lock, realize vblanks are now disabled and then release the locks and exit.



+   }
+
/* Need timestamp lock to prevent concurrent execution with
 * vblank enable/disable, as this would cause inconsistent
 * or corrupted timestamps and vblank counts.



I think the logic itself is fine and at least basic testing of the patch 
on a Intel HD Ironlake didn't show problems, so with the above taken 
into account it would have my slightly uneasy reviewed-by.


One thing that worries me a little bit about the disable inside vblank 
irq are the potential races between the disable code and the display 
engine which could cause really bad off-by-one errors for clients on a 
imperfect driver. These races can only happen if vblank enable or 
disable happens close to or inside the vblank. This approach lets the 
instant disable happen exactly inside vblank when there is the highest 
chance of triggering that condition.


This doesn't seem to be a problem for intel kms, but other drivers don't 
have instant disable yet, so we don't know how well we could do it 
there. Additionally things like dynamic power management tend to operate 
inside vblank, sometimes with funny side effects to other stuff, e.g., 
dpm on AMD, as i remember from some long debug session with Michel and 
Alex last summer where dpm played a role. Therefore it seems more safe 
to me to avoid actions inside vblank that could be done outside. E.g., 
instead of doing the disable inside the vblank irq one could maybe just 
schedule an exact timer to do the disable a few milliseconds later in 
the middle of active scanout to avoid these potential issues?


-mario

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: Defer disabling the vblank IRQ until the next interrupt (for instant-off)

2015-04-03 Thread Chris Wilson
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:20:20AM +0900, Michel Dänzer wrote:
 On 02.04.2015 20:34, Chris Wilson wrote:
  On vblank instant-off systems, we can get into a situation where the cost
  of enabling and disabling the vblank IRQ around a drmWaitVblank query
  dominates. However, we know that if the user wants the current vblank
  counter, they are also very likely to immediately queue a vblank wait
  and so we can keep the interrupt around and only turn it off if we have
  no further vblank requests in the interrupt interval.
  
  After vblank event delivery there is a shadow of one vblank where the
  interrupt is kept alive for the user to query and queue another vblank
  event. Similarly, if the user is using blocking drmWaitVblanks, the
  interrupt will be disabled on the IRQ following the wait completion.
  However, if the user is simply querying the current vblank counter and
  timestamp, the interrupt will be disabled after every IRQ and the user
  will enabled it again on the first query following the IRQ.
 
 As I mentioned before, it might not be too hard to make querying the
 current counter work without enabling the interrupt. But this looks like
 a step in the right direction.

I honestly chickened out in case I broke something!

Hindsight says both are useful as currently with instant-off we will
disable the vblank interrupt inside the IRQ handler delivering the
event, whereas we can save quite a bit of pain by waiting for the next
IRQ before doing the disable (culmulatively saving a lot more CPU cycles
over the course of swap chain than the extra IRQ will cost).
-Chris

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Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: Defer disabling the vblank IRQ until the next interrupt (for instant-off)

2015-04-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 02.04.2015 20:34, Chris Wilson wrote:
 On vblank instant-off systems, we can get into a situation where the cost
 of enabling and disabling the vblank IRQ around a drmWaitVblank query
 dominates. However, we know that if the user wants the current vblank
 counter, they are also very likely to immediately queue a vblank wait
 and so we can keep the interrupt around and only turn it off if we have
 no further vblank requests in the interrupt interval.
 
 After vblank event delivery there is a shadow of one vblank where the
 interrupt is kept alive for the user to query and queue another vblank
 event. Similarly, if the user is using blocking drmWaitVblanks, the
 interrupt will be disabled on the IRQ following the wait completion.
 However, if the user is simply querying the current vblank counter and
 timestamp, the interrupt will be disabled after every IRQ and the user
 will enabled it again on the first query following the IRQ.

As I mentioned before, it might not be too hard to make querying the
current counter work without enabling the interrupt. But this looks like
a step in the right direction.

Acked-by: Michel Dänzer michel.daen...@amd.com


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[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: Defer disabling the vblank IRQ until the next interrupt (for instant-off)

2015-04-02 Thread Chris Wilson
On vblank instant-off systems, we can get into a situation where the cost
of enabling and disabling the vblank IRQ around a drmWaitVblank query
dominates. However, we know that if the user wants the current vblank
counter, they are also very likely to immediately queue a vblank wait
and so we can keep the interrupt around and only turn it off if we have
no further vblank requests in the interrupt interval.

After vblank event delivery there is a shadow of one vblank where the
interrupt is kept alive for the user to query and queue another vblank
event. Similarly, if the user is using blocking drmWaitVblanks, the
interrupt will be disabled on the IRQ following the wait completion.
However, if the user is simply querying the current vblank counter and
timestamp, the interrupt will be disabled after every IRQ and the user
will enabled it again on the first query following the IRQ.

Testcase: igt/kms_vblank
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk
Cc: Ville Syrjälä ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com
Cc: Daniel Vetter dan...@ffwll.ch
Cc: Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net
Cc: Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com
Cc: Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com,
Cc: Mario Kleiner mario.kleiner...@gmail.com
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c | 15 +--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
index c8a34476570a..6f5dc18779e2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c
@@ -1091,9 +1091,9 @@ void drm_vblank_put(struct drm_device *dev, int crtc)
if (atomic_dec_and_test(vblank-refcount)) {
if (drm_vblank_offdelay == 0)
return;
-   else if (dev-vblank_disable_immediate || drm_vblank_offdelay  
0)
+   else if (drm_vblank_offdelay  0)
vblank_disable_fn((unsigned long)vblank);
-   else
+   else if (!dev-vblank_disable_immediate)
mod_timer(vblank-disable_timer,
  jiffies + ((drm_vblank_offdelay * HZ)/1000));
}
@@ -1697,6 +1697,17 @@ bool drm_handle_vblank(struct drm_device *dev, int crtc)
 
spin_lock_irqsave(dev-event_lock, irqflags);
 
+   if (dev-vblank_disable_immediate  !atomic_read(vblank-refcount)) {
+   unsigned long vbl_lock_irqflags;
+
+   spin_lock_irqsave(dev-vbl_lock, vbl_lock_irqflags);
+   if (atomic_read(vblank-refcount) == 0  vblank-enabled) {
+   DRM_DEBUG(disabling vblank on crtc %d\n, crtc);
+   vblank_disable_and_save(dev, crtc);
+   }
+   spin_unlock_irqrestore(dev-vbl_lock, vbl_lock_irqflags);
+   }
+
/* Need timestamp lock to prevent concurrent execution with
 * vblank enable/disable, as this would cause inconsistent
 * or corrupted timestamps and vblank counts.
-- 
2.1.4

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Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: Defer disabling the vblank IRQ until the next interrupt (for instant-off)

2015-04-02 Thread shuang . he
Tested-By: PRC QA PRTS (Patch Regression Test System Contact: 
shuang...@intel.com)
Task id: 6120
-Summary-
Platform  Delta  drm-intel-nightly  Series Applied
PNV  272/272  272/272
ILK  302/302  302/302
SNB  303/303  303/303
IVB  338/338  338/338
BYT -1  287/287  286/287
HSW -1  361/361  360/361
BDW  308/308  308/308
-Detailed-
Platform  Testdrm-intel-nightly  Series 
Applied
*BYT  igt@gem_exec_bad_domains@conflicting-write-domain  PASS(12)  
FAIL(1)PASS(1)
*HSW  igt@gem_storedw_loop_blt  PASS(2)  DMESG_WARN(1)PASS(1)
(dmesg patch 
applied)drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed[i915]]*ERROR*Hangcheck_timer_elapsed...blitter_ring_idle@Hangcheck
 timer elapsed... blitter ring idle
Note: You need to pay more attention to line start with '*'
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