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On unwinding the active request we give it a small (limited to internal priority levels) boost to prevent it from being gazumped a second time. However, this means that it can be promoted to above the request that triggered the preemption request, causing a preempt-to-idle cycle for no change. We can avoid this if we take the boost into account when checking if the preemption request is valid. v2: After preemption the active request will be after the preemptee if they end up with equal priority. v3: Tvrtko pointed out that this, the existing logic, makes I915_PRIORITY_WAIT non-preemptible. Document this interesting quirk! v4: Prove Tvrtko was right about WAIT being non-preemptible and test it. v5: Except not all priorities were made equal, and the WAIT not preempting is only if we start off as !NEWCLIENT. v6: More commentary after coming to an understanding about what I had forgotten to say. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190301170901.8340-1-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.