drm/i915: Sleep whilst waiting for the ring

If userspace is submitting so many long running batches that the ring
becomes full, throttle by sleeping for a 1ms before checking for free
space. Simply yielding was causing excessive scheduler overhead whilst
making no progress.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index d89b88791aac7d763f1f72dbec10d750b78655c6..89004a622f4971a6e377bcb60c4fd20c24abbabe 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ int intel_wait_ring_buffer(struct drm_device *dev,
                                master_priv->sarea_priv->perf_boxes |= I915_BOX_WAIT;
                }
 
-               yield();
+               msleep(1);
        } while (!time_after(jiffies, end));
        trace_i915_ring_wait_end (dev);
        return -EBUSY;