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drm/i915: avoid wait_for_atomic() in non-atomic host2guc_action()
authorDave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
Wed, 6 Jul 2016 14:30:11 +0000 (15:30 +0100)
committerTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:24:46 +0000 (16:24 +0100)
commitab0e455bd0abe2b817c896b229b08045bafbdb94
tree58e6320508ae68872da490ecf7ff37df806cb362
parentaca34b6e1ca909ba15f6c1c1dc89bea8f455403f
drm/i915: avoid wait_for_atomic() in non-atomic host2guc_action()

Rather than using wait_for_atomic() when chacking for a response from
the GuC, we can get the effect of a hybrid spin/sleep wait by breaking
it into two stages. First, spin-wait for up to 10us to minimise latency
for "quick" commands; then, if that times out, sleep-wait for up 10ms
(the maximum allowed for a "slow" command).

Being able to do this depends on the recent patch
18f4b84 drm/i915: Use atomic waits for short non-atomic ones
and is similar to the hybrid approach in
1758b90 drm/i915: Use a hybrid scheme for fast register waits
(although we can't use that as-is, because that interface doesn't quite
match what we need here).

Signed-off-by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1467815411-21756-1-git-send-email-david.s.gordon@intel.com
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_guc_submission.c