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Chris Wilson 17db337f50 drm/i915: Truly bump ready tasks ahead of busywaits
In commit b7404c7ecb ("drm/i915: Bump ready tasks ahead of
busywaits"), I tried cutting a corner in order to not install a signal
for each of our dependencies, and only listened to requests on which we
were intending to busywait. The compromise that was made was that
instead of then being able to promote the request with a full
NOSEMAPHORE like its non-busywaiting brethren, as we had not ensured we
had cleared the semaphore chain, we settled for only using the NEWCLIENT
boost. With an over saturated system with multiple NEWCLIENTS in flight
at any time, this was found to be an inadequate promotion and left us
with a much poorer scheduling order than prior to using semaphores.

The outcome of this patch, is that all requests have NOSEMAPHORE
priority when they have no dependencies and are ready to run and not
busywait, restoring the pre-semaphore ordering on saturated systems.

We can demonstrate the effect of poor scheduling order by oversaturating
the system using gem_wsim on a system with multiple vcs engines
(i.e running the same workloads across more clients than required for
peak throughput, e.g. media_load_balance_17i7.wsim -c4 -b context):

x v5.1 (normalized)
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    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x 120       0.99456       1.00628      0.999985     1.0001545  0.0024387139
+ 120      0.873021       1.00037      0.884134    0.90148752   0.039190862
Difference at 99.5% confidence
	-0.098667 +/- 0.0110762
	-9.86517% +/- 1.10745%
	(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0277657)
% 120      0.990207       1.00165     0.9970265    0.99699748     0.0021024
Difference at 99.5% confidence
	-0.003157 +/- 0.000908245
	-0.315651% +/- 0.0908105%
	(Student's t, pooled s = 0.00227678)

Fixes: b7404c7ecb ("drm/i915: Bump ready tasks ahead of busywaits")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry Rogozhkin <dmitry.v.rogozhkin@intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry Ermilov <dmitry.ermilov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190515130052.4475-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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