diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile
index d8d4a16179bd6a01c7c4714b105a9efe8a13ba9b..9ee3b59685b903a456796708533094bb28b5ad71 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.profile
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ config DRM_I915_PREEMPT_TIMEOUT
 
 	  May be 0 to disable the timeout.
 
-config DRM_I915_SPIN_REQUEST
-	int "Busywait for request completion (us)"
-	default 5 # microseconds
+config DRM_I915_MAX_REQUEST_BUSYWAIT
+	int "Busywait for request completion limit (ns)"
+	default 8000 # nanoseconds
 	help
 	  Before sleeping waiting for a request (GPU operation) to complete,
 	  we may spend some time polling for its completion. As the IRQ may
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ config DRM_I915_SPIN_REQUEST
 	  check if the request will complete in the time it would have taken
 	  us to enable the interrupt.
 
+	  This is adjustable via
+	  /sys/class/drm/card?/engine/*/max_busywait_duration_ns
+
 	  May be 0 to disable the initial spin. In practice, we estimate
 	  the cost of enabling the interrupt (if currently disabled) to be
 	  a few microseconds.
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
index 119c9cb24fd4f2a0f358f0fb4af557a30b7d7b45..53ac3f00909abd7c3f32da7c5ff5b47e39b26c5b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
@@ -313,6 +313,8 @@ static int intel_engine_setup(struct intel_gt *gt, enum intel_engine_id id)
 
 	engine->props.heartbeat_interval_ms =
 		CONFIG_DRM_I915_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL;
+	engine->props.max_busywait_duration_ns =
+		CONFIG_DRM_I915_MAX_REQUEST_BUSYWAIT;
 	engine->props.preempt_timeout_ms =
 		CONFIG_DRM_I915_PREEMPT_TIMEOUT;
 	engine->props.stop_timeout_ms =
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
index b23366a8104800daeec97b26f39f4a3a998fe4b9..80cdde7128420c21e2b5cbfb9f363d421ac997d5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
@@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ struct intel_engine_cs {
 
 	struct {
 		unsigned long heartbeat_interval_ms;
+		unsigned long max_busywait_duration_ns;
 		unsigned long preempt_timeout_ms;
 		unsigned long stop_timeout_ms;
 		unsigned long timeslice_duration_ms;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/sysfs_engines.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/sysfs_engines.c
index 53402edbf98a5eb110b0909f8ac5908d8fe508bb..619c43d1172d8390518c8319933f8c87e482001e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/sysfs_engines.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/sysfs_engines.c
@@ -142,6 +142,54 @@ all_caps_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 static struct kobj_attribute all_caps_attr =
 __ATTR(known_capabilities, 0444, all_caps_show, NULL);
 
+static ssize_t
+max_spin_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
+	       const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	struct intel_engine_cs *engine = kobj_to_engine(kobj);
+	unsigned long long duration;
+	int err;
+
+	/*
+	 * When waiting for a request, if is it currently being executed
+	 * on the GPU, we busywait for a short while before sleeping. The
+	 * premise is that most requests are short, and if it is already
+	 * executing then there is a good chance that it will complete
+	 * before we can setup the interrupt handler and go to sleep.
+	 * We try to offset the cost of going to sleep, by first spinning
+	 * on the request -- if it completed in less time than it would take
+	 * to go sleep, process the interrupt and return back to the client,
+	 * then we have saved the client some latency, albeit at the cost
+	 * of spinning on an expensive CPU core.
+	 *
+	 * While we try to avoid waiting at all for a request that is unlikely
+	 * to complete, deciding how long it is worth spinning is for is an
+	 * arbitrary decision: trading off power vs latency.
+	 */
+
+	err = kstrtoull(buf, 0, &duration);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	if (duration > jiffies_to_nsecs(2))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	WRITE_ONCE(engine->props.max_busywait_duration_ns, duration);
+
+	return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+max_spin_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct intel_engine_cs *engine = kobj_to_engine(kobj);
+
+	return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", engine->props.max_busywait_duration_ns);
+}
+
+static struct kobj_attribute max_spin_attr =
+__ATTR(max_busywait_duration_ns, 0644, max_spin_show, max_spin_store);
+
 static ssize_t
 timeslice_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
 		const char *buf, size_t count)
@@ -224,6 +272,7 @@ void intel_engines_add_sysfs(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
 		&mmio_attr.attr,
 		&caps_attr.attr,
 		&all_caps_attr.attr,
+		&max_spin_attr.attr,
 		NULL
 	};
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
index e5a55801f75316a895505b9cbe6f64daf3966791..feccf29381aa17425c3b0daac1e37beb68357306 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
@@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ void i915_request_add(struct i915_request *rq)
 	mutex_unlock(&tl->mutex);
 }
 
-static unsigned long local_clock_us(unsigned int *cpu)
+static unsigned long local_clock_ns(unsigned int *cpu)
 {
 	unsigned long t;
 
@@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@ static unsigned long local_clock_us(unsigned int *cpu)
 	 * stop busywaiting, see busywait_stop().
 	 */
 	*cpu = get_cpu();
-	t = local_clock() >> 10;
+	t = local_clock();
 	put_cpu();
 
 	return t;
@@ -1431,15 +1431,15 @@ static bool busywait_stop(unsigned long timeout, unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	unsigned int this_cpu;
 
-	if (time_after(local_clock_us(&this_cpu), timeout))
+	if (time_after(local_clock_ns(&this_cpu), timeout))
 		return true;
 
 	return this_cpu != cpu;
 }
 
-static bool __i915_spin_request(const struct i915_request * const rq,
-				int state, unsigned long timeout_us)
+static bool __i915_spin_request(const struct i915_request * const rq, int state)
 {
+	unsigned long timeout_ns;
 	unsigned int cpu;
 
 	/*
@@ -1467,7 +1467,8 @@ static bool __i915_spin_request(const struct i915_request * const rq,
 	 * takes to sleep on a request, on the order of a microsecond.
 	 */
 
-	timeout_us += local_clock_us(&cpu);
+	timeout_ns = READ_ONCE(rq->engine->props.max_busywait_duration_ns);
+	timeout_ns += local_clock_ns(&cpu);
 	do {
 		if (i915_request_completed(rq))
 			return true;
@@ -1475,7 +1476,7 @@ static bool __i915_spin_request(const struct i915_request * const rq,
 		if (signal_pending_state(state, current))
 			break;
 
-		if (busywait_stop(timeout_us, cpu))
+		if (busywait_stop(timeout_ns, cpu))
 			break;
 
 		cpu_relax();
@@ -1561,8 +1562,8 @@ long i915_request_wait(struct i915_request *rq,
 	 * completion. That requires having a good predictor for the request
 	 * duration, which we currently lack.
 	 */
-	if (IS_ACTIVE(CONFIG_DRM_I915_SPIN_REQUEST) &&
-	    __i915_spin_request(rq, state, CONFIG_DRM_I915_SPIN_REQUEST)) {
+	if (IS_ACTIVE(CONFIG_DRM_I915_MAX_REQUEST_BUSYWAIT) &&
+	    __i915_spin_request(rq, state)) {
 		dma_fence_signal(&rq->fence);
 		goto out;
 	}