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This API is entirely unnecessary and I'd love to get rid of it. If userspace wants a single timeline across multiple contexts, they can either use implicit synchronization or a syncobj, both of which existed at the time this feature landed. The justification given at the time was that it would help GL drivers which are inherently single-timeline. However, neither of our GL drivers actually wanted the feature. i965 was already in maintenance mode at the time and iris uses syncobj for everything. Unfortunately, as much as I'd love to get rid of it, it is used by the media driver so we can't do that. We can, however, do the next-best thing which is to embed a syncobj in the context and do exactly what we'd expect from userspace internally. This isn't an entirely identical implementation because it's no longer atomic if userspace races with itself by calling execbuffer2 twice simultaneously from different threads. It won't crash in that case; it just doesn't guarantee any ordering between those two submits. It also means that sync files exported from different engines on a SINGLE_TIMELINE context will have different fence contexts. This is visible to userspace if it looks at the obj_name field of sync_fence_info. Moving SINGLE_TIMELINE to a syncobj emulation has a couple of technical advantages beyond mere annoyance. One is that intel_timeline is no longer an api-visible object and can remain entirely an implementation detail. This may be advantageous as we make scheduler changes going forward. Second is that, together with deleting the CLONE_CONTEXT API, we should now have a 1:1 mapping between intel_context and intel_timeline which may help us reduce locking. v2 (Tvrtko Ursulin): - Update the comment on i915_gem_context::syncobj to mention that it's an emulation and the possible race if userspace calls execbuffer2 twice on the same context concurrently. v2 (Jason Ekstrand): - Wrap the checks for eb.gem_context->syncobj in unlikely() - Drop the dma_fence reference - Improved commit message v3 (Jason Ekstrand): - Move the dma_fence_put() to before the error exit v4 (Tvrtko Ursulin): - Add a comment about fence contexts to the commit message Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210708154835.528166-8-jason@jlekstrand.net |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.