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    drm/i915/scheduler: Support user-defined priorities · ac14fbd4
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    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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