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    drm/amd/display: Use vrr friendly pageflip throttling in DC. · 7b19bba5
    Mario Kleiner authored
    In VRR mode, keep track of the vblank count of the last
    completed pageflip in amdgpu_crtc->last_flip_vblank, as
    recorded in the pageflip completion handler after each
    completed flip.
    
    Use that count to prevent mmio programming a new pageflip
    within the same vblank in which the last pageflip completed,
    iow. to throttle pageflips to at most one flip per video
    frame, while at the same time allowing to request a flip
    not only before start of vblank, but also anywhere within
    vblank.
    
    The old logic did the same, and made sense for regular fixed
    refresh rate flipping, but in vrr mode it prevents requesting
    a flip anywhere inside the possibly huge vblank, thereby
    reducing framerate in vrr mode instead of improving it, by
    delaying a slightly delayed flip requests up to a maximum
    vblank duration + 1 scanout duration. This would limit VRR
    usefulness to only help applications with a very high GPU
    demand, which can submit the flip request before start of
    vblank, but then have to wait long for fences to complete.
    
    With this method a flip can be both requested and - after
    fences have completed - executed, ie. it doesn't matter if
    the request (amdgpu_dm_do_flip()) gets delayed until deep
    into the extended vblank due to cpu execution delays. This
    also allows clients which want to regulate framerate within
    the vrr range a much more fine-grained control of flip timing,
    a feature that might be useful for video playback, and is
    very useful for neuroscience/vision research applications.
    
    In regular non-VRR mode, retain the old flip submission
    behavior. This to keep flip scheduling for fullscreen X11/GLX
    OpenGL clients intact, if they use the GLX_OML_sync_control
    extensions glXSwapBufferMscOML(, ..., target_msc,...) function
    with a specific target_msc target vblank count.
    
    glXSwapBuffersMscOML() or DRI3/Present PresentPixmap() will
    not flip at the proper target_msc for a non-zero target_msc
    if VRR mode is active with this patch. They'd often flip one
    frame too early. However, this limitation should not matter
    much in VRR mode, as scheduling based on vblank counts is
    pretty futile/unusable under variable refresh duration
    anyway, so no real extra harm is done.
    
    According to some testing already done with this patch by
    Nicholas on top of my tests, IGT tests didn't report any
    problems. If fixes stuttering and flickering when flipping
    at rates below the minimum vrr refresh rate.
    
    Fixes: bb47de73 ("drm/amdgpu: Set FreeSync state using drm VRR
    properties")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de@gmail.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
    Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
    Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
    Tested-by: default avatarBruno Filipe <bmilreu@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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