When many entities are competing for the same run queue
on the same scheduler, we observe an unusually long wait
times and some jobs get starved. This has been observed on GPUVis.
The issue is due to the Round Robin policy used by schedulers
to pick up the next entity's job queue for execution. Under stress
of many entities and long job queues within entity some
jobs could be stuck for very long time in it's entity's
queue before being popped from the queue and executed
while for other entities with smaller job queues a job
might execute earlier even though that job arrived later
then the job in the long queue.
Fix:
Add FIFO selection policy to entities in run queue, chose next entity
on run queue in such order that if job on one entity arrived
earlier then job on another entity the first job will start
executing earlier regardless of the length of the entity's job
queue.
v2:
Switch to rb tree structure for entities based on TS of
oldest job waiting in the job queue of an entity. Improves next
entity extraction to O(1). Entity TS update
O(log N) where N is the number of entities in the run-queue
Drop default option in module control parameter.
v3:
Various cosmetical fixes and minor refactoring of fifo update function. (Luben)
v4:
Switch drm_sched_rq_select_entity_fifo to in order search (Luben)
v5: Fix up drm_sched_rq_select_entity_fifo loop (Luben)
v6: Add missing drm_sched_rq_remove_fifo_locked
v7: Fix ts sampling bug and more cosmetic stuff (Luben)
v8: Fix module parameter string (Luben)
Cc: Luben Tuikov <luben.tuikov@amd.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Cc: AMD Graphics <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Yunxiang Li (Teddy) <Yunxiang.Li@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <luben.tuikov@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Luben Tuikov <luben.tuikov@amd.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220930041258.1050247-1-luben.tuikov@amd.com
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