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    drm/i915: Bump signaler priority on adding a waiter · 6e7eb7a8
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    The handling of the no-preemption priority level imposes the restriction
    that we need to maintain the implied ordering even though preemption is
    disabled. Otherwise we may end up with an AB-BA deadlock across multiple
    engine due to a real preemption event reordering the no-preemption
    WAITs. To resolve this issue we currently promote all requests to WAIT
    on unsubmission, however this interferes with the timeslicing
    requirement that we do not apply any implicit promotion that will defeat
    the round-robin timeslice list. (If we automatically promote the active
    request it will go back to the head of the queue and not the tail!)
    
    So we need implicit promotion to prevent reordering around semaphores
    where we are not allowed to preempt, and we must avoid implicit
    promotion on unsubmission. So instead of at unsubmit, if we apply that
    implicit promotion on adding the dependency, we avoid the semaphore
    deadlock and we also reduce the gains made by the promotion for user
    space waiting. Furthermore, by keeping the earlier dependencies at a
    higher level, we reduce the search space for timeslicing without
    altering runtime scheduling too badly (no dependencies at all will be
    assigned a higher priority for rrul).
    
    v2: Limit the bump to external edges (as originally intended) i.e.
    between contexts and out to the user.
    
    Testcase: igt/gem_concurrent_blit
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190515130052.4475-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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