[PATCH 00/16] KFD interrupt and signal event handling improvements

[Christian König]

Am 25.10.2017 um 08:57 schrieb Oded Gabbay:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 3:23 AM, Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com> wrote:
>> This patch series improves interrupt handling latency, signal event
>> processing overhead and replaces some custom data structures with
>> standard kernel data structures (idr, kfifo, waitqueue).
>>
>> It also increases the capacity of the number of signals that can be
>> processed from 256 to 4096. This breaks ancient versions of the Thunk
>> that support only 256 signal events. The current WIP-version on github
>> supports both sizes. If support for ancient Thunks is considered
>> important, this could be fixed by allowing mappings that are smaller
>> than 4096 signals, and limiting the number of signals per process
>> depending on the size of the mapped events page.
> Hi Felix,
> I don't have enough data to say whether it is important in terms of
> whether there are actual users out there.
> I *can* say that the no.1 rule of the kernel is *never break userspace*

Well I think it should be "never break *existing* userspace", but in 
general I agree.

> Even if I want to take the relevant patches, I can't really do it,
> especially since you mentioned that there is a possible fix for it.
>
> I know its a bit more work, but I suggest you add an additional patch
> that supports the old thunk.

When the user space stack would be 10+ years old I would just say go ahead.

But I agree with Oded here that we need this clean and backward compatible.

Regards,
Christian.

>
> Thanks,
> Oded
>
>> Andres Rodriguez (4):
>>    drm/amdkfd: use standard kernel kfifo for IH
>>    drm/amdkfd: increase IH num entries to 8192
>>    drm/amdkfd: wait only for IH work on IH exit
>>    drm/amdkfd: use a high priority workqueue for IH work
>>
>> Besar Wicaksono (1):
>>    drm/amdkfd: Add SDMA trap src id to the KFD isr wanted list
>>
>> Felix Kuehling (8):
>>    drm/amdkfd: Don't dereference kfd_process.mm
>>    drm/amdkfd: Clean up kfd_wait_on_events
>>    drm/amdkfd: Fix event destruction with pending waiters
>>    drm/amdkfd: remove redundant kfd_event_waiter.input_index
>>    drm/amdkfd: Use wait_queue_t to implement event waiting
>>    drm/amdkfd: Simplify events page allocator
>>    drm/amdkfd: Simplify event ID and signal slot management
>>    drm/amdkfd: Use IH context ID for signal lookup
>>
>> Oded Gabbay (1):
>>    drm/amdkfd: increase limit of signal events to 4096 per process
>>
>> Sean Keely (2):
>>    drm/amdkfd: Short cut for kfd_wait_on_events without waiting
>>    drm/amdkfd: Fix scheduler race in kfd_wait_on_events sleep loop
>>
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/cik_event_interrupt.c |   8 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/cik_int.h             |   3 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_chardev.c         |   5 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_device.c          |   2 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_events.c          | 588 ++++++++++-------------
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_events.h          |  18 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_interrupt.c       |  83 ++--
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h            |  32 +-
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c         |   6 +-
>>   include/uapi/linux/kfd_ioctl.h                   |   2 +-
>>   10 files changed, 332 insertions(+), 415 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
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