Re: [PATCH v4 06/14] dma-buf/sync_file: Support (E)POLLPRI

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:51:48 -0800
Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 1:38 AM Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 07:37:26 -0800
> > Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 1:49 AM Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:  

...

> > > > On another matter, if the application uses SET_DEADLINE with one
> > > > timestamp, and the compositor uses SET_DEADLINE on the same thing with
> > > > another timestamp, what should happen?  
> > >
> > > The expectation is that many deadline hints can be set on a fence.
> > > The fence signaller should track the soonest deadline.  
> >
> > You need to document that as UAPI, since it is observable to userspace.
> > It would be bad if drivers or subsystems would differ in behaviour.
> >  
> 
> It is in the end a hint.  It is about giving the driver more
> information so that it can make better choices.  But the driver is
> even free to ignore it.  So maybe "expectation" is too strong of a
> word.  Rather, any other behavior doesn't really make sense.  But it
> could end up being dictated by how the hw and/or fw works.

It will stop being a hint once it has been implemented and used in the
wild long enough. The kernel userspace regression rules make sure of
that.

See the topic of implementing triple-buffering in Mutter in order to
put more work to the GPU in order to have the GPU ramp up clocks in
order to not miss rendering deadlines. I don't think that patch set has
landed in Mutter upstream, but I hear distributions in downstream are
already carrying it.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1383
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1441

Granted, GPU clocks are just one side of that story it seems, and
triple-buffering may have other benefits.

If SET_DEADLINE would fix that problem without triple-buffering, it is
definitely userspace observable, expected and eventually required
behaviour.


Thanks,
pq

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