[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: set sched_hw_submission higher for KIQ

[Felix Kuehling]

Thanks Alex!

Jay, do you think this is enough? This bumps the number of concurrent
operations on KIQ to 4 by default.

Regards,
  Felix


On 2017-08-22 04:49 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> KIQ doesn't really use the GPU scheduler.  The base
> drivers generally use the KIQ ring directly rather than
> submitting IBs.  However, amdgpu_sched_hw_submission
> (which defaults to 2) limits the number of outstanding
> fences to 2.  KFD uses the KIQ for TLB flushes and the
> 2 fence limit hurts performance when there are several KFD
> processes running.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ring.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ring.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ring.c
> index 6c5646b..f39b851 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ring.c
> @@ -170,6 +170,16 @@ int amdgpu_ring_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_ring *ring,
>  		     unsigned irq_type)
>  {
>  	int r;
> +	int sched_hw_submission = amdgpu_sched_hw_submission;
> +
> +	/* Set the hw submission limit higher for KIQ because
> +	 * it's used for a number of gfx/compute tasks by both
> +	 * KFD and KGD which may have outstanding fences and
> +	 * it doesn't really use the gpu scheduler anyway;
> +	 * KIQ tasks get submitted directly to the ring.
> +	 */
> +	if (ring->funcs->type == AMDGPU_RING_TYPE_KIQ)
> +		sched_hw_submission *= 2;
>  
>  	if (ring->adev == NULL) {
>  		if (adev->num_rings >= AMDGPU_MAX_RINGS)
> @@ -179,7 +189,7 @@ int amdgpu_ring_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_ring *ring,
>  		ring->idx = adev->num_rings++;
>  		adev->rings[ring->idx] = ring;
>  		r = amdgpu_fence_driver_init_ring(ring,
> -			amdgpu_sched_hw_submission);
> +						  sched_hw_submission);
>  		if (r)
>  			return r;
>  	}
> @@ -219,7 +229,7 @@ int amdgpu_ring_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev, struct amdgpu_ring *ring,
>  	}
>  
>  	ring->ring_size = roundup_pow_of_two(max_dw * 4 *
> -					     amdgpu_sched_hw_submission);
> +					     sched_hw_submission);
>  
>  	ring->buf_mask = (ring->ring_size / 4) - 1;
>  	ring->ptr_mask = ring->funcs->support_64bit_ptrs ?