drm/i915: Eliminate lots of iterations over the execobjects array

The major scaling bottleneck in execbuffer is the processing of the
execobjects. Creating an auxiliary list is inefficient when compared to
using the execobject array we already have allocated.

Reservation is then split into phases. As we lookup up the VMA, we
try and bind it back into active location. Only if that fails, do we add
it to the unbound list for phase 2. In phase 2, we try and add all those
objects that could not fit into their previous location, with fallback
to retrying all objects and evicting the VM in case of severe
fragmentation. (This is the same as before, except that phase 1 is now
done inline with looking up the VMA to avoid an iteration over the
execobject array. In the ideal case, we eliminate the separate reservation
phase). During the reservation phase, we only evict from the VM between
passes (rather than currently as we try to fit every new VMA). In
testing with Unreal Engine's Atlantis demo which stresses the eviction
logic on gen7 class hardware, this speed up the framerate by a factor of
2.

The second loop amalgamation is between move_to_gpu and move_to_active.
As we always submit the request, even if incomplete, we can use the
current request to track active VMA as we perform the flushes and
synchronisation required.

The next big advancement is to avoid copying back to the user any
execobjects and relocations that are not changed.

v2: Add a Theory of Operation spiel.
v3: Fall back to slow relocations in preparation for flushing userptrs.
v4: Document struct members, factor out eb_validate_vma(), add a few
more comments to explain some magic and hide other magic behind macros.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.h
index ea98e6e4262f..04d7a5da70fd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vma.h
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ struct i915_vma {
 
 	/** This vma's place in the execbuf reservation list */
 	struct list_head exec_link;
+	struct list_head reloc_link;
 
 	/** This vma's place in the eviction list */
 	struct list_head evict_link;