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      drm/i915/scheduler: Support user-defined priorities · ac14fbd4
      Chris Wilson authored
      Use a priority stored in the context as the initial value when
      submitting a request. This allows us to change the default priority on a
      per-context basis, allowing different contexts to be favoured with GPU
      time at the expense of lower importance work. The user can adjust the
      context's priority via I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_PRIORITY, with more positive
      values being higher priority (they will be serviced earlier, after their
      dependencies have been resolved). Any prerequisite work for an execbuf
      will have its priority raised to match the new request as required.
      
      Normal users can specify any value in the range of -1023 to 0 [default],
      i.e. they can reduce the priority of their workloads (and temporarily
      boost it back to normal if so desired).
      
      Privileged users can specify any value in the range of -1023 to 1023,
      [default is 0], i.e. they can raise their priority above all overs and
      so potentially starve the system.
      
      Note that the existing schedulers are not fair, nor load balancing, the
      execution is strictly by priority on a first-come, first-served basis,
      and the driver may choose to boost some requests above the range
      available to users.
      
      This priority was originally based around nice(2), but evolved to allow
      clients to adjust their priority within a small range, and allow for a
      privileged high priority range.
      
      For example, this can be used to implement EGL_IMG_context_priority
      https://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/IMG/EGL_IMG_context_priority.txt
      
      	EGL_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_LEVEL_IMG determines the priority level of
              the context to be created. This attribute is a hint, as an
              implementation may not support multiple contexts at some
              priority levels and system policy may limit access to high
              priority contexts to appropriate system privilege level. The
              default value for EGL_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_LEVEL_IMG is
              EGL_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_MEDIUM_IMG."
      
      so we can map
      
      	PRIORITY_HIGH -> 1023 [privileged, will failback to 0]
      	PRIORITY_MED -> 0 [default]
      	PRIORITY_LOW -> -1023
      
      They also map onto the priorities used by VkQueue (and a VkQueue is
      essentially a timeline, our i915_gem_context under full-ppgtt).
      
      v2: s/CAP_SYS_ADMIN/CAP_SYS_NICE/
      v3: Report min/max user priorities as defines in the uapi, and rebase
      internal priorities on the exposed values.
      
      Testcase: igt/gem_exec_schedule
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJoonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
      Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171003203453.15692-9-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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