Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2019 08:23:41 +0100 | From | Gerd Hoffmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] drm/virtio: drop fencing in virtio_gpu_resource_create_ioctl |
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:04:31AM -0800, Gurchetan Singh wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:43 AM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > There is no need to wait for completion here. > > > > The host will process commands in submit order, so commands can > > reference the new resource just fine even when queued up before > > completion. > > Does virtio_gpu_execbuffer_ioctl also wait for completion for a host response?
No.
But you pass in a list of objects (drm_virtgpu_execbuffer->bo_handles) used. They will all get reserved, so you can use DRM_IOCTL_VIRTGPU_WAIT on any of these objects to wait for completion.
Recently the driver got support for returning a fence fd for the execbuffer, which you can also use to wait for completion in case your kernel is new enough.
> From the guest driver perspective, a fence is just implemented has a > virtio 3D resource. > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/blob/master/src/gallium/winsys/virgl/drm/virgl_drm_winsys.c#L787 > > The DRM_IOCTL_VIRTGPU_WAIT ioctl essentially waits for the reservation > objects associated with that fence resource to become available. So > the flow is: > > virtio_gpu_execbuffer_ioctl > virtio_gpu_resource_create_ioctl with fence resource > virtio_gpu_wait_ioctl with that fence resource --> associated with a > GL wait on the host side
Oh. /me looks surprised. Wasn't aware that userspace is doing *that*.
> Does this change modify this sequence of events?
Yes. DRM_IOCTL_VIRTGPU_WAIT will not wait any more. Guess I have to scratch the patch then ...
cheers, Gerd
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