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The goal here is to try and reduce the latency of signaling additional requests following the wakeup from interrupt by reducing the list of to-be-signaled requests from an rbtree to a sorted linked list. The original choice of using an rbtree was to facilitate random insertions of request into the signaler while maintaining a sorted list. However, if we assume that most new requests are added when they are submitted, we see those new requests in execution order making a insertion sort fast, and the reduction in overhead of each signaler iteration significant. Since commit56299fb7d9("drm/i915: Signal first fence from irq handler if complete"), we signal most fences directly from notify_ring() in the interrupt handler greatly reducing the amount of work that actually needs to be done by the signaler kthread. All the thread is then required to do is operate as the bottom-half, cleaning up after the interrupt handler and preparing the next waiter. This includes signaling all later completed fences in a saturated system, but on a mostly idle system we only have to rebuild the wait rbtree in time for the next interrupt. With this de-emphasis of the signaler's role, we want to rejig it's datastructures to reduce the amount of work we require to both setup the signal tree and maintain it on every interrupt. References:56299fb7d9("drm/i915: Signal first fence from irq handler if complete") Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.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/20180222092545.17216-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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