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If the preempted context takes too long to relinquish control, e.g. it is stuck inside a shader with arbitration disabled, evict that context with an engine reset. This ensures that preemptions are reasonably responsive, providing a tighter QoS for the more important context at the cost of flagging unresponsive contexts more frequently (i.e. instead of using an ~10s hangcheck, we now evict at ~100ms). The challenge of lies in picking a timeout that can be reasonably serviced by HW for typical workloads, balancing the existing clients against the needs for responsiveness. Note that coupled with timeslicing, this will lead to rapid GPU "hang" detection with multiple active contexts vying for GPU time. The forced preemption mechanism can be compiled out with ./scripts/config --set-val DRM_I915_PREEMPT_TIMEOUT 0 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191023133108.21401-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
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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.