drm/i915: Flush tasklet submission before sleeping on i915_request_wait
authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:26:06 +0000 (14:26 +0100)
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:42:47 +0000 (16:42 +0100)
commit193065024072c0d6f2972142d5df5a00b33324c6
tree66f60f1d50485b6a7aa14f0cbf44dc348d001052
parentfc1a0fb53875724c3498e1402ac339de3fee20d8
drm/i915: Flush tasklet submission before sleeping on i915_request_wait

If the system is being slow and userspace is racing ahead of the GPU and
finds itself waiting for the GPU to catch up, before the process sleeps
give the tasklet a kick, bypassing ksoftirqd. If the system is
overloaded, then ksoftirqd may be delayed incurring additional latency
to our user.

This should not be a frequent problem, but in the past we have observed
several hundred millisecond delays before ksoftirqd services an
interrupt, so burn a few cycles to lend a helping hand.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191015132606.14349-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c