The busywait in __i915_spin_request() does not respect pending signals
and so may consume the entire timeslice for the task instead of
returning to userspace to handle the signal.
In the worst case this could cause a delay in signal processing of 20ms,
which would be a noticeable jitter in cursor tracking. If a higher
resolution signal was being used, for example to provide fairness of a
server timeslices between clients, we could expect to detect some
unfairness between clients (i.e. some windows not updating as fast as
others). This issue was noticed when inspecting a report of poor
interactivity resulting from excessively high __i915_spin_request usage.
Fixes regression from
commit 2def4ad99b [v4.2]
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date: Tue Apr 7 16:20:41 2015 +0100
drm/i915: Optimistically spin for the request completion
v2: Try to assess the impact of the bug
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc; "Rogozhkin, Dmitry V" <dmitry.v.rogozhkin@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen@intel.com>
Cc: "Rantala, Valtteri" <valtteri.rantala@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1449833608-22125-2-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 91b0c352ac)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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