We are motivated to avoid using a bitfield for obj->active for a couple
of reasons. Firstly, we wish to document our lockless read of obj->active
using READ_ONCE inside i915_gem_busy_ioctl() and that requires an
integral type (i.e. not a bitfield). Secondly, gcc produces abysmal code
when presented with a bitfield and that shows up high on the profiles of
request tracking (mainly due to excess memory traffic as it converts
the bitfield to a register and back and generates frequent AGI in the
process).
v2: BIT, break up a long line in compute the other engines, new paint
for i915_gem_object_is_active (now i915_gem_object_get_active).
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-23-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Our GPUs impose certain requirements upon buffers that depend upon how
exactly they are used. Typically this is expressed as that they require
a larger surface than would be naively computed by pitch * height.
Normally such requirements are hidden away in the userspace driver, but
when we accept pointers from strangers and later impose extra conditions
on them, the original client allocator has no idea about the
monstrosities in the GPU and we require the userspace driver to inform
the kernel how many padding pages are required beyond the client
allocation.
v2: Long time, no see
v3: Try an anonymous union for uapi struct compatibility
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-7-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
This reimplements the denial-of-service protection against igt from
commit 227f782e46 ("drm/i915: Retire requests before creating a new
one") and transfers the stall from before each batch into get_pages().
The issue is that the stall is increasing latency between batches which
is detrimental in some cases (especially coupled with execlists) to
keeping the GPU well fed. Also we have made the observation that retiring
requests can of itself free objects (and requests) and therefore makes
a good first step when shrinking.
v2: Recycle objects prior to i915_gem_object_get_pages()
v3: Remove the reference to the ring from i915_gem_requests_ring() as it
operates on an intel_engine_cs.
v4: Since commit 9b5f4e5ed6 ("drm/i915: Retire oldest completed request
before allocating next") we no longer need the safeguard to retire
requests before get_pages(). We no longer see the huge latencies when
hitting the shrinker between allocations.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-4-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Hook the vma itself into the i915_gem_request_retire() so that we can
accurately track when a solitary vma is inactive (as opposed to having
to wait for the entire object to be idle). This improves the interaction
when using multiple contexts (with full-ppgtt) and eliminates some
frequent list walking when retiring objects after a completed request.
A side-effect is that we get an active vma reference for free. The
consequence of this is shown in the next patch...
v2: Update inline names to be consistent with
i915_gem_object_get_active()
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470293567-10811-25-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
This patch is broken out of the next just to remove the code motion from
that patch and make it more readable. What we do here is move the
i915_vma_move_to_active() to i915_gem_execbuffer.c and put the three
stages (read, write, fenced) together so that future modifications to
active handling are all located in the same spot. The importance of this
is so that we can more simply control the order in which the requests
are place in the retirement list (i.e. control the order at which we
retire and so control the lifetimes to avoid having to hold onto
references).
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470293567-10811-24-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In the next patch, request tracking is made more generic and for that we
need a new expanded struct and to separate out the logic changes from
the mechanical churn, we split out the structure renaming into this
patch.
v2: Writer's block. Add some spiel about why we track requests.
v3: Now i915_gem_active.
v4: Now with i915_gem_active_set() for attaching to the active request.
v5: Use i915_gem_active_set() from inside the retirement handlers
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470293567-10811-10-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Rather than passing a complete set of GPU cache domains for either
invalidation or for flushing, or even both, just pass a single parameter
to the engine->emit_flush to determine the required operations.
engine->emit_flush(GPU, 0) -> engine->emit_flush(EMIT_INVALIDATE)
engine->emit_flush(0, GPU) -> engine->emit_flush(EMIT_FLUSH)
engine->emit_flush(GPU, GPU) -> engine->emit_flush(EMIT_FLUSH | EMIT_INVALIDATE)
This allows us to extend the behaviour easily in future, for example if
we want just a command barrier without the overhead of flushing.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470174640-18242-8-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The state stored in this struct is not only the information about the
buffer object, but the ring used to communicate with the hardware. Using
buffer here is overly specific and, for me at least, conflates with the
notion of buffer objects themselves.
s/struct intel_ringbuffer/struct intel_ring/
s/enum intel_ring_hangcheck/enum intel_engine_hangcheck/
s/describe_ctx_ringbuf()/describe_ctx_ring()/
s/intel_ring_get_active_head()/intel_engine_get_active_head()/
s/intel_ring_sync_index()/intel_engine_sync_index()/
s/intel_ring_init_seqno()/intel_engine_init_seqno()/
s/ring_stuck()/engine_stuck()/
s/intel_cleanup_engine()/intel_engine_cleanup()/
s/intel_stop_engine()/intel_engine_stop()/
s/intel_pin_and_map_ringbuffer_obj()/intel_pin_and_map_ring()/
s/intel_unpin_ringbuffer()/intel_unpin_ring()/
s/intel_engine_create_ringbuffer()/intel_engine_create_ring()/
s/intel_ring_flush_all_caches()/intel_engine_flush_all_caches()/
s/intel_ring_invalidate_all_caches()/intel_engine_invalidate_all_caches()/
s/intel_ringbuffer_free()/intel_ring_free()/
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1469432687-22756-15-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470174640-18242-4-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk