Re: [Intel-gfx] [RFC 7/8] drm/i915: Inherit process nice for context scheduling priority

[Matthew Brost]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 03:36:49PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Introduce the concept of context nice value which matches the process
> nice.
> 
> We do this by extending the struct i915_sched_attr and add a helper
> (i915_sched_attr_priority) to be used to convert to effective priority
> when used by backend code and for priority sorting.
> 
> Context nice is then inherited from the process which creates the GEM
> context and utilised secondary to context priority, only when the latter
> has been left at the default setting, in order to avoid disturbing any
> application made choices of low and high (batch processing and maybe
> latency sensitive compositing). In those cases nice value adjusts the
> effective priority in the narrow band of -19 to +20 around
> I915_CONTEXT_DEFAULT_PRIORITY.
> 
> This means that in theory userspace using the context priority uapi
> directly has a wider range of possible adjustments (thought to be
> beneficial), but in practice that only applies to execlists platforms.
> With GuC there are only three priority buckets (less than zero is low
> priority, zero is normal and greater than zero is high) which therefore
> interact as expected with the nice adjustment. It makes the question of
> should the nice be a sub-range of GEM priorities, or stretched across the
> whole, a moot one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c        |  1 +
>  .../gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c   |  4 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c  |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c                |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h                |  5 +++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c              | 12 ++++++++----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h              | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h        |  8 ++++++++
>  8 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
> index 8d4d687ab1d0..fed0733cb652 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
> @@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ proto_context_create(struct drm_i915_private *i915, unsigned int flags)
>  	if (i915->params.enable_hangcheck)
>  		pc->user_flags |= BIT(UCONTEXT_PERSISTENCE);
>  	pc->sched.priority = I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL;
> +	pc->sched.nice = task_nice(current);
>  
>  	if (flags & I915_CONTEXT_CREATE_FLAGS_SINGLE_TIMELINE) {
>  		if (!HAS_EXECLISTS(i915)) {
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c
> index e91d803a6453..1a02c65823a7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c
> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ static struct i915_priolist *to_priolist(struct rb_node *rb)
>  
>  static int rq_prio(const struct i915_request *rq)
>  {
> -	return READ_ONCE(rq->sched.attr.priority);
> +	return i915_request_priority(rq);
>  }
>  
>  static int effective_prio(const struct i915_request *rq)
> @@ -3221,8 +3221,8 @@ static void kick_execlists(const struct i915_request *rq,
>  {
>  	struct intel_engine_cs *engine = rq->engine;
>  	struct i915_sched_engine *sched_engine = engine->sched_engine;
> +	const int prio = i915_sched_attr_priority(attr);
>  	const struct i915_request *inflight;
> -	const int prio = attr->priority;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * We only need to kick the tasklet once for the high priority
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
> index b5883a4365ca..f258607685a2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
> @@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ static void guc_bump_inflight_request_prio(struct i915_request *rq,
>  					   const struct i915_sched_attr *attr)
>  {
>  	struct intel_context *ce = rq->context;
> -	const int prio = attr->priority;
> +	const int prio = i915_sched_attr_priority(attr);
>  	u8 new_guc_prio = map_i915_prio_to_guc_prio(prio);
>  
>  	/* Short circuit function */
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> index 79da5eca60af..a8c6f3a64895 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> @@ -1930,7 +1930,7 @@ static int print_sched_attr(const struct i915_sched_attr *attr,
>  		return x;
>  
>  	x += snprintf(buf + x, len - x,
> -		      " prio=%d", attr->priority);
> +		      " prio=%d nice=%d", attr->priority, attr->nice);
>  
>  	return x;
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h
> index 7bd9ed20623e..c2c4c344837e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h
> @@ -399,6 +399,11 @@ long i915_request_wait(struct i915_request *rq,
>  #define I915_WAIT_PRIORITY	BIT(1) /* small priority bump for the request */
>  #define I915_WAIT_ALL		BIT(2) /* used by i915_gem_object_wait() */
>  
> +static inline int i915_request_priority(const struct i915_request *rq)
> +{
> +	return i915_sched_attr_priority(&rq->sched.attr);
> +}
> +
>  void i915_request_show(struct drm_printer *m,
>  		       const struct i915_request *rq,
>  		       const char *prefix,
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
> index 534bab99fcdc..e75793e36454 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
> @@ -155,7 +155,9 @@ lock_sched_engine(struct i915_sched_node *node,
>  static void __i915_schedule(struct i915_sched_node *node,
>  			    const struct i915_sched_attr *attr)
>  {
> -	const int prio = max(attr->priority, node->attr.priority);
> +	const int prio =
> +		max(i915_sched_attr_priority(attr),
> +		    i915_sched_attr_priority(&node->attr));
>  	struct i915_sched_engine *sched_engine;
>  	struct i915_dependency *dep, *p;
>  	struct i915_dependency stack;
> @@ -209,7 +211,7 @@ static void __i915_schedule(struct i915_sched_node *node,
>  			if (node_signaled(p->signaler))
>  				continue;
>  
> -			if (prio > READ_ONCE(p->signaler->attr.priority))
> +			if (prio > i915_sched_attr_priority(&p->signaler->attr))
>  				list_move_tail(&p->dfs_link, &dfs);
>  		}
>  	}
> @@ -247,7 +249,8 @@ static void __i915_schedule(struct i915_sched_node *node,
>  		lockdep_assert_held(&sched_engine->lock);
>  
>  		/* Recheck after acquiring the engine->timeline.lock */
> -		if (prio <= node->attr.priority || node_signaled(node))
> +		if (prio <= i915_sched_attr_priority(&node->attr) ||
> +		    node_signaled(node))
>  			continue;
>  
>  		GEM_BUG_ON(node_to_request(node)->engine->sched_engine !=
> @@ -257,7 +260,7 @@ static void __i915_schedule(struct i915_sched_node *node,
>  		if (sched_engine->bump_inflight_request_prio)
>  			sched_engine->bump_inflight_request_prio(from, attr);
>  
> -		WRITE_ONCE(node->attr.priority, prio);
> +		WRITE_ONCE(node->attr, *attr);
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * Once the request is ready, it will be placed into the
> @@ -305,6 +308,7 @@ void i915_sched_node_init(struct i915_sched_node *node)
>  void i915_sched_node_reinit(struct i915_sched_node *node)
>  {
>  	node->attr.priority = I915_PRIORITY_INVALID;
> +	node->attr.nice = 0;
>  	node->semaphores = 0;
>  	node->flags = 0;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
> index 0b9b86af6c7f..75ccc9f55d14 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.h
> @@ -38,6 +38,20 @@ void i915_sched_node_fini(struct i915_sched_node *node);
>  void i915_schedule(struct i915_request *request,
>  		   const struct i915_sched_attr *attr);
>  
> +static inline int i915_sched_attr_priority(const struct i915_sched_attr *attr)
> +{
> +	int prio = attr->priority;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Only allow I915_CONTEXT_DEFAULT_PRIORITY to be affected by the
> +	 * nice setting.
> +	 */
> +	if (!prio)
> +		prio = -attr->nice;
> +
> +	return prio;
> +}
> +
>  struct list_head *
>  i915_sched_lookup_priolist(struct i915_sched_engine *sched_engine, int prio);
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h
> index 24b9ac1c2ce2..159237aa7609 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h
> @@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ struct i915_sched_attr {
>  	 * The &drm_i915_private.kernel_context is assigned the lowest priority.
>  	 */
>  	int priority;
> +
> +	/**
> +	 * @nice: context nice level
> +	 *
> +	 * Nice level follows the CPU scheduler nice value as set for the
> +	 * process owning the GPU context.
> +	 */
> +	int nice;

Same comment as the previous patch, I'd avoid adding a field to this
structure as I don't think this will play with the DRM scheduler very
well. If anything I think we should drop i915_sched_attr completely and
just store these values directly in the request and pass around the
request rather than i915_sched_attr.

Matt

>  };
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.30.2
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