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We keep a global seed for the legacy BSD round-robin selector, but in our testing of multiple simultaneous client workloads, a random seed spreads the load more evenly. (As even as an initial round-robin selector can be!) Removing the global is one less variable we have to find a home for! We can simulate multi-client (both same and mixed workloads) using igt/gem_wsim to work out optimal strategies and then compare our simulation with the actual transcoder on multi-engine machines. This fixed round-robin turns out to be one of the worst methods. No user is advised to use this method; the current suggestion is to use a virtual engine for agnostic batches, randomised submission or using the busyness tracking to select the most idle engine at the time of dispatch. At the present time, intel-media is explicit, but libva still seems to use it, with the exception of batches that must execute on vcs0. Oh well. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190809091010.23281-2-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.