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    drm/i915/execlists: Suppress mere WAIT preemption · b5773a36
    Chris Wilson authored
    WAIT is occasionally suppressed by virtue of preempted requests being
    promoted to NEWCLIENT if they have not all ready received that boost.
    Make this consistent for all WAIT boosts that they are not allowed to
    preempt executing contexts and are merely granted the right to be at the
    front of the queue for the next execution slot. This is in keeping with
    the desire that the WAIT boost be a minor tweak that does not give
    excessive promotion to its user and open ourselves to trivial abuse.
    
    The problem with the inconsistent WAIT preemption becomes more apparent
    as the preemption is propagated across the engines, where one engine may
    preempt and the other not, and we be relying on the exact execution
    order being consistent across engines (e.g. using HW semaphores to
    coordinate parallel execution).
    
    v2: Also protect GuC submission from false preemption loops.
    v3: Build bug safeguards and better debug messages for st.
    v4: Do the priority bumping in unsubmit (i.e. on preemption/reset
    unwind), applying it earlier during submit causes out-of-order execution
    combined with execute fences.
    v5: Call sw_fence_fini for our dummy request (Matthew)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
    Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190228220639.3173-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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