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Currently, job flow control is implemented simply by limiting the number of jobs in flight. Therefore, a scheduler is initialized with a credit limit that corresponds to the number of jobs which can be sent to the hardware. This implies that for each job, drivers need to account for the maximum job size possible in order to not overflow the ring buffer. However, there are drivers, such as Nouveau, where the job size has a rather large range. For such drivers it can easily happen that job submissions not even filling the ring by 1% can block subsequent submissions, which, in the worst case, can lead to the ring run dry. In order to overcome this issue, allow for tracking the actual job size instead of the number of jobs. Therefore, add a field to track a job's credit count, which represents the number of credits a job contributes to the scheduler's credit limit. Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov89@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20231110001638.71750-1-dakr@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.