[PATCH 1/1] drm/amdkfd: Print a warning when the runlist becomes oversubscribed

[Zeng, Oak]

Reviewed-by: Oak Zeng <Oak.Zeng at amd.com>

Regards,
Oak

-----Original Message-----
From: amd-gfx <amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> On Behalf Of Kuehling, Felix
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:43 PM
To: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Kuehling, Felix <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] drm/amdkfd: Print a warning when the runlist becomes oversubscribed

Oversubscription of queues or processes results in poor performance mostly because HWS blinbly schedules busy and idle queues, resulting in poor occupancy if many queues are idle.

Let users know with a warning message when transitioning from a non-oversubscribed to an oversubscribed runlist.

Signed-off-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_packet_manager.c | 6 +++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h           | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_packet_manager.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_packet_manager.c
index c72c8f5fd54c..ccf6b2310316 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_packet_manager.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_packet_manager.c
@@ -203,11 +203,15 @@ static int pm_create_runlist_ib(struct packet_manager *pm,
 
 	pr_debug("Finished map process and queues to runlist\n");
 
-	if (is_over_subscription)
+	if (is_over_subscription) {
+		if (!pm->is_over_subscription)
+			pr_warn("Runlist is getting oversubscribed. Expect reduced ROCm 
+performance.\n");
 		retval = pm->pmf->runlist(pm, &rl_buffer[rl_wptr],
 					*rl_gpu_addr,
 					alloc_size_bytes / sizeof(uint32_t),
 					true);
+	}
+	pm->is_over_subscription = is_over_subscription;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < alloc_size_bytes / sizeof(uint32_t); i++)
 		pr_debug("0x%2X ", rl_buffer[i]);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h
index 4070e6d24ef7..d4bba0124d29 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h
@@ -937,6 +937,7 @@ struct packet_manager {
 	bool allocated;
 	struct kfd_mem_obj *ib_buffer_obj;
 	unsigned int ib_size_bytes;
+	bool is_over_subscription;
 
 	const struct packet_manager_funcs *pmf;  };
--
2.17.1

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