drm/i915: Allow execbuffer to use the first object as the batch

Currently, the last object in the execlist is the always the batch.
However, when building the batch buffer we often know the batch object
first and if we can use the first slot in the execlist we can emit
relocation instructions relative to it immediately and avoid a separate
pass to adjust the relocations to point to the last execlist slot.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
index 15bc9f7..7ccbd6a 100644
--- a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
@@ -418,7 +418,6 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_irq_wait {
  */
 #define I915_PARAM_HAS_EXEC_CAPTURE	 45
 
-/* Query the mask of slices available for this system */
 #define I915_PARAM_SLICE_MASK		 46
 
 /* Assuming it's uniform for each slice, this queries the mask of subslices
@@ -426,6 +425,12 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_irq_wait {
  */
 #define I915_PARAM_SUBSLICE_MASK	 47
 
+/*
+ * Query whether DRM_I915_GEM_EXECBUFFER2 supports supplying the batch buffer
+ * as the first execobject as opposed to the last. See I915_EXEC_BATCH_FIRST.
+ */
+#define I915_PARAM_HAS_EXEC_BATCH_FIRST	 48
+
 typedef struct drm_i915_getparam {
 	__s32 param;
 	/*
@@ -912,7 +917,17 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_execbuffer2 {
  */
 #define I915_EXEC_FENCE_OUT		(1<<17)
 
-#define __I915_EXEC_UNKNOWN_FLAGS (-(I915_EXEC_FENCE_OUT<<1))
+/*
+ * Traditionally the execbuf ioctl has only considered the final element in
+ * the execobject[] to be the executable batch. Often though, the client
+ * will known the batch object prior to construction and being able to place
+ * it into the execobject[] array first can simplify the relocation tracking.
+ * Setting I915_EXEC_BATCH_FIRST tells execbuf to use element 0 of the
+ * execobject[] as the * batch instead (the default is to use the last
+ * element).
+ */
+#define I915_EXEC_BATCH_FIRST		(1<<18)
+#define __I915_EXEC_UNKNOWN_FLAGS (-(I915_EXEC_BATCH_FIRST<<1))
 
 #define I915_EXEC_CONTEXT_ID_MASK	(0xffffffff)
 #define i915_execbuffer2_set_context_id(eb2, context) \