[PATCH 00/11] add recovery entity

[Christian König]

Am 04.08.2016 um 05:10 schrieb zhoucm1:
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> On 2016年08月03日 21:43, Christian König wrote:
>> Well that is a clear NAK to this whole approach.
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>> Submitting the recovery jobs to the scheduler is reentrant because 
>> the scheduler is the one who originally signaled us of a timeout.
> we have reset all recovery jobs, right? Could we think those jobs are 
> same as others?

No they aren't. For recovery jobs you don't want a timeout which 
triggers another GPU reset while your first one is still under way.

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>> Why not submit the recovery jobs to the hardware ring directly?
> Yeah, this is also what I did at begin.
> The mainly reasons are:
> 0. recovery jobs need to wait itself page table recovery completed at 
> least.

Well, as noted in the other thread we need to recover the GART table 
with the CPU anyway.

> 1. direct submission is using run_job which is used by scheduler as 
> well, which could introduce conflicts.

The scheduler should be completely stopped during the GPU reset, so 
there shouldn't be any other processing.

> 2. if all vm clients use one sdma engine, the speed of restoring is 
> slow. If we can use itself pte ring, then we will use all sdma engines 
> for them.

A single SDMA engine should be able to max out the PCIe speed in one 
direction, no need to offload that to both engines. If we really need 
both engines we could also simply handle that in the recovery code as well.

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> 3. if just one entity is to recover all vm page tables, then their 
> recovery jobs will have potential dependency, the later is waiting the 
> front. If they have their own entity, there will be no dependency 
> between them.
> 4. if recovery entity is based on kernel run queue, then the recovery 
> jobs could be executed with pt jobs at the same time.

Well that's exactly the reason why I don't want to push those jobs 
through the scheduler. The scheduler should be stopped during the GPU 
reset so that nothing else happens with the hardware.

E.g. when other jobs run concurrently with the recovery jobs you can 
have all kinds of problems like one SDMA engine is doing a recovery 
while the other one does a backup on the same BO etc..

Regards,
Christian.

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> Above is why I introduce recovery entity and recovery run queue.
>
> Regards,
> David Zhou
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>> Regards,
>> Christian.
>>
>> Am 28.07.2016 um 12:13 schrieb Chunming Zhou:
>>> every vm has itself recovery entity, which is used to reovery page 
>>> table from their shadow.
>>> They don't need to wait front vm completed.
>>> And also using all pte rings can speed reovery.
>>>
>>> every scheduler has its own recovery entity, which is used to save 
>>> hw jobs, and resubmit from it, which solves the conflicts between 
>>> reset thread and scheduler thread when run job.
>>>
>>> And some fixes when doing this improment.
>>>
>>> Chunming Zhou (11):
>>>    drm/amdgpu: hw ring should be empty when gpu reset
>>>    drm/amdgpu: specify entity to amdgpu_copy_buffer
>>>    drm/amd: add recover run queue for scheduler
>>>    drm/amdgpu: fix vm init error path
>>>    drm/amdgpu: add vm recover entity
>>>    drm/amdgpu: use all pte rings to recover page table
>>>    drm/amd: add recover entity for every scheduler
>>>    drm/amd: use scheduler to recover hw jobs
>>>    drm/amd: hw job list should be exact
>>>    drm/amd: reset jobs to recover entity
>>>    drm/amdgpu: no need fence wait every time
>>>
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h           |   5 +-
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_benchmark.c |   3 +-
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c    |  35 +++++--
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ring.c      |  11 +++
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_test.c      |   8 +-
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c       |   5 +-
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c        |  26 ++++--
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c | 129 
>>> +++++++++++++-------------
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.h |   4 +-
>>>   9 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
>>>
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