Lucas Stach <l.st...@pengutronix.de> writes: > Am Mittwoch, den 27.06.2018, 10:25 -0700 schrieb Eric Anholt: >> > Lucas Stach <l.st...@pengutronix.de> writes: >> >> > When the hangcheck handler was replaced by the DRM scheduler timeout >> > handling we dropped the forward progress check, as this might allow >> > clients to hog the GPU for a long time with a big job. >> > >> > It turns out that even reasonably well behaved clients like the >> > Armada Xorg driver occasionally trip over the 500ms timeout. Bring >> > back the forward progress check to get rid of the userspace regression. >> > >> > We would still like to fix userspace to submit smaller batches >> > if possible, but that is for another day. >> > >> > Fixes: 6d7a20c07760 (drm/etnaviv: replace hangcheck with scheduler timeout) >> > Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.st...@pengutronix.de> >> >> I was just wondering if there was a way to do this with the scheduler (I >> had a similar issue with GTF-GLES2.gtf.GL.acos.acos_float_vert_xvary), >> and this looks correct. > > What are you thinking about? A forward progress check at sub-fence > granularity is always going to be GPU specific. The only thing that > could be shunted to the scheduler is rearming of the timer. We could do > this by changing the return type of timedout_job to something that > allows us to indicate a false-positive to the scheduler.
That sounds like a nice future improvement.
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