drm/i915: Disable gpu relocations
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Tue, 3 Aug 2021 12:48:32 +0000 (14:48 +0200)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Wed, 4 Aug 2021 22:24:52 +0000 (00:24 +0200)
commitce13c78fa93ede18e341b753f21052344ea7eb33
tree8ae99e7fc53150b3ee7bab96c671e07386a44051
parentab49840272cfa595327fa1212a5a44287b9ac986
drm/i915: Disable gpu relocations

Media userspace was the last userspace to still use them, and they
converted now too:

https://github.com/intel/media-driver/commit/144020c37770083974bedf59902b70b8f444c799

This means no reason anymore to make relocations faster than they've
been for the first 9 years of gem. This code was added in

commit 7dd4f6729f9243bd7046c6f04c107a456bda38eb
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Fri Jun 16 15:05:24 2017 +0100

    drm/i915: Async GPU relocation processing

Furthermore there's pretty strong indications it's buggy, since the
code to use it by default as the only option had to be reverted:

commit ad5d95e4d538737ed3fa25493777decf264a3011
Author: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 8 15:41:17 2020 +1000

    Revert "drm/i915/gem: Async GPU relocations only"

This code just disables gpu relocations, leaving the garbage
collection for later patches and more importantly, much less confusing
diff. Also given how much headaches this code has caused in the past,
letting this soak for a bit seems justified.

Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210803124833.3817354-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c