drm/i915: Use a non-blocking wait for set-to-domain ioctl
The principal use for set-to-domain is for userspace to serialise operations with a particular buffer, for example to maintain coherency with a CPU map or to ratelimit its rendering by waiting on all previous operations before continuing. As such we tend to hold the struct_mutex for long periods during the synchronisation and so cause contention issues with other users of the graphics device, even for independent operations as memory management. An example is the contention between compiz and X which causes jitter in the display and a drop in peak throughput. The ultimate solution would be a set of fine grained locks and lockless operations, but an intermediate step is to first attempt the synchronisation for set-to-domain without holding the mutex. This introduces a number of race conditions, so we limit it use to the ioctl periphery where we have no dependent state and can safely complete with a locked synchronisation afterwards. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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