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    drm/i915/perf: allow holding preemption on filtered ctx · 9cd20ef7
    Lionel Landwerlin authored
    We would like to make use of perf in Vulkan. The Vulkan API is much
    lower level than OpenGL, with applications directly exposed to the
    concept of command buffers (pretty much equivalent to our batch
    buffers). In Vulkan, queries are always limited in scope to a command
    buffer. In OpenGL, the lack of command buffer concept meant that
    queries' duration could span multiple command buffers.
    
    With that restriction gone in Vulkan, we would like to simplify
    measuring performance just by measuring the deltas between the counter
    snapshots written by 2 MI_RECORD_PERF_COUNT commands, rather than the
    more complex scheme we currently have in the GL driver, using 2
    MI_RECORD_PERF_COUNT commands and doing some post processing on the
    stream of OA reports, coming from the global OA buffer, to remove any
    unrelated deltas in between the 2 MI_RECORD_PERF_COUNT.
    
    Disabling preemption only apply to a single context with which want to
    query performance counters for and is considered a privileged
    operation, by default protected by CAP_SYS_ADMIN. It is possible to
    enable it for a normal user by disabling the paranoid stream setting.
    
    v2: Store preemption setting in intel_context (Chris)
    
    v3: Use priorities to avoid preemption rather than the HW mechanism
    
    v4: Just modify the port priority reporting function
    
    v5: Add nopreempt flag on gem context and always flag requests
        appropriately, regarless of OA reconfiguration.
    
    Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/932Signed-off-by: default avatarLionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191014201404.22468-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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