[PATCH 2/3] drm/amdgpu: add AMDGPU_VM_NOALLOC
Marek Olšák
maraeo at gmail.com
Mon May 16 12:56:44 UTC 2022
Reproduction steps:
- use mesa/main on gfx10.3 (not sure what other GPUs do)
- run: radeonsi_mall_noalloc=true glxgears
Marek
On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 7:53 AM Christian König <
ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
> Crap, do you have a link to the failure?
>
> Am 16.05.22 um 13:10 schrieb Marek Olšák:
>
> I forgot to say: The NOALLOC flag causes an allocation failure, so there
> is a kernel bug somewhere.
>
> Marek
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 7:06 AM Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FYI, I think it's time to merge this because the Mesa commits are going
>> to be merged in ~30 minutes if Gitlab CI is green, and that includes
>> updated amdgpu_drm.h.
>>
>> Marek
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:55 PM Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok sounds good.
>>>
>>> Marek
>>>
>>> On Wed., May 11, 2022, 03:43 Christian König, <
>>> ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It really *is* a NOALLOC feature. In other words there is no latency
>>>> improvement on reads because the cache is always checked, even with the
>>>> noalloc flag set.
>>>>
>>>> The only thing it affects is that misses not enter the cache and so
>>>> don't cause any additional pressure on evicting cache lines.
>>>>
>>>> You might want to double check with the hardware guys, but I'm
>>>> something like 95% sure that it works this way.
>>>>
>>>> Christian.
>>>>
>>>> Am 11.05.22 um 09:22 schrieb Marek Olšák:
>>>>
>>>> Bypass means that the contents of the cache are ignored, which
>>>> decreases latency at the cost of no coherency between bypassed and normal
>>>> memory requests. NOA (noalloc) means that the cache is checked and can give
>>>> you cache hits, but misses are not cached and the overall latency is
>>>> higher. I don't know what the hw does, but I hope it was misnamed and it
>>>> really means bypass because there is no point in doing cache lookups on
>>>> every memory request if the driver wants to disable caching to *decrease*
>>>> latency in the situations when the cache isn't helping.
>>>>
>>>> Marek
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:15 AM Lazar, Lijo <lijo.lazar at amd.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/11/2022 11:36 AM, Christian König wrote:
>>>>> > Mhm, it doesn't really bypass MALL. It just doesn't allocate any
>>>>> MALL
>>>>> > entries on write.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > How about AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_NO_MALL ?
>>>>>
>>>>> One more - AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_LLC_* [ LLC = last level cache, * = some
>>>>> sort
>>>>> of attribute which decides LLC behaviour]
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Lijo
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Christian.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Am 10.05.22 um 23:21 schrieb Marek Olšák:
>>>>> >> A better name would be:
>>>>> >> AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_BYPASS_MALL
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Marek
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 7:23 AM Christian König
>>>>> >> <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Add the AMDGPU_VM_NOALLOC flag to let userspace control MALL
>>>>> >> allocation.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Only compile tested!
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
>>>>> >> ---
>>>>> >> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c | 2 ++
>>>>> >> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c | 3 +++
>>>>> >> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c | 3 +++
>>>>> >> include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h | 2 ++
>>>>> >> 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c
>>>>> >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c
>>>>> >> index bf97d8f07f57..d8129626581f 100644
>>>>> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c
>>>>> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c
>>>>> >> @@ -650,6 +650,8 @@ uint64_t amdgpu_gem_va_map_flags(struct
>>>>> >> amdgpu_device *adev, uint32_t flags)
>>>>> >> pte_flag |= AMDGPU_PTE_WRITEABLE;
>>>>> >> if (flags & AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_PRT)
>>>>> >> pte_flag |= AMDGPU_PTE_PRT;
>>>>> >> + if (flags & AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_NOALLOC)
>>>>> >> + pte_flag |= AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC;
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> if (adev->gmc.gmc_funcs->map_mtype)
>>>>> >> pte_flag |= amdgpu_gmc_map_mtype(adev,
>>>>> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c
>>>>> >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c
>>>>> >> index b8c79789e1e4..9077dfccaf3c 100644
>>>>> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c
>>>>> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v10_0.c
>>>>> >> @@ -613,6 +613,9 @@ static void gmc_v10_0_get_vm_pte(struct
>>>>> >> amdgpu_device *adev,
>>>>> >> *flags &= ~AMDGPU_PTE_MTYPE_NV10_MASK;
>>>>> >> *flags |= (mapping->flags & AMDGPU_PTE_MTYPE_NV10_MASK);
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> + *flags &= ~AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC;
>>>>> >> + *flags |= (mapping->flags & AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC);
>>>>> >> +
>>>>> >> if (mapping->flags & AMDGPU_PTE_PRT) {
>>>>> >> *flags |= AMDGPU_PTE_PRT;
>>>>> >> *flags |= AMDGPU_PTE_SNOOPED;
>>>>> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c
>>>>> >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c
>>>>> >> index 8d733eeac556..32ee56adb602 100644
>>>>> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c
>>>>> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v11_0.c
>>>>> >> @@ -508,6 +508,9 @@ static void gmc_v11_0_get_vm_pte(struct
>>>>> >> amdgpu_device *adev,
>>>>> >> *flags &= ~AMDGPU_PTE_MTYPE_NV10_MASK;
>>>>> >> *flags |= (mapping->flags & AMDGPU_PTE_MTYPE_NV10_MASK);
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> + *flags &= ~AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC;
>>>>> >> + *flags |= (mapping->flags & AMDGPU_PTE_NOALLOC);
>>>>> >> +
>>>>> >> if (mapping->flags & AMDGPU_PTE_PRT) {
>>>>> >> *flags |= AMDGPU_PTE_PRT;
>>>>> >> *flags |= AMDGPU_PTE_SNOOPED;
>>>>> >> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>>>> >> b/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>>>> >> index 57b9d8f0133a..9d71d6330687 100644
>>>>> >> --- a/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>>>> >> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h
>>>>> >> @@ -533,6 +533,8 @@ struct drm_amdgpu_gem_op {
>>>>> >> #define AMDGPU_VM_MTYPE_UC (4 << 5)
>>>>> >> /* Use Read Write MTYPE instead of default MTYPE */
>>>>> >> #define AMDGPU_VM_MTYPE_RW (5 << 5)
>>>>> >> +/* don't allocate MALL */
>>>>> >> +#define AMDGPU_VM_PAGE_NOALLOC (1 << 9)
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> struct drm_amdgpu_gem_va {
>>>>> >> /** GEM object handle */
>>>>> >> --
>>>>> >> 2.25.1
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
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