[PATCH 1/5] drm/sched:add new priority level

[Das, Nirmoy]

On 8/24/2021 2:07 PM, Christian König wrote:
> Am 24.08.21 um 13:57 schrieb Das, Nirmoy:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> On 8/24/2021 8:10 AM, Christian König wrote:
>>> I haven't followed the previous discussion, but that looks like this 
>>> change is based on a misunderstanding.
>>
>>
>> In previous discussion I sort of suggested to have new DRM prio as I 
>> didn't see any other way to map priority provided by the userspace to 
>> this new 3rd hw priority.
>>
>> Do you think we should use other information from userspace like 
>> queue id to determine hardware priority ?
>
> If I'm not completely mistaken we have dropped the concept of exposing 
> multiple queues/instances completely.


Yes, that is my understanding too.

>
> What we should probably do is to use the (cleaned up) UAPI enum for 
> init_priority and override_priority instead of the drm scheduler enums.


I went through the drm code, now I see what you mean. So what we are now 
doing is:  mapping  AMDGPU_CTX_PRIORITY_*  to DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_*  and 
then to hw priority which is not nice.

We should rather map AMDGPU_CTX_PRIORITY_* to hw priority directly.


Regards,

Nirmoy


>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nirmoy
>>
>>>
>>> Those here are the software priorities used in the scheduler, but 
>>> what you are working on are the hardware priorities.
>>>
>>> That are two completely different things which we shouldn't mix up.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Christian.
>>>
>>> Am 24.08.21 um 07:55 schrieb Satyajit Sahu:
>>>> Adding a new priority level DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_VERY_HIGH
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Satyajit Sahu <satyajit.sahu at amd.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h | 1 +
>>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
>>>> index d18af49fd009..d0e5e234da5f 100644
>>>> --- a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
>>>> +++ b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
>>>> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ enum drm_sched_priority {
>>>>       DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_MIN,
>>>>       DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_NORMAL,
>>>>       DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_HIGH,
>>>> +    DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_VERY_HIGH,
>>>>       DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_KERNEL,
>>>>         DRM_SCHED_PRIORITY_COUNT,
>>>
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