[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: improve GTT BO alloc speed in OGL

Christian König deathsimple at vodafone.de
Mon Sep 12 18:26:27 UTC 2016


Am 12.09.2016 um 18:44 schrieb Alex Deucher:
> From: "monk.liu" <monk.liu at amd.com>
>
> original we use ttm_dma path to allocate GTT bo, which is too much
> slower than the path of ttm_pool, in most cases.
>
> The swiotlb checks don't seem to work and we always end up in the
> slow path even when an IOMMU is available.

While the check is clearly not correct. Simply always using the direct 
mapping and not checking the fallback path can break as well.

So this patch is clearly not a good idea and needs to be fixed before it 
is pushed.

Christian.

> Signed-off-by: monk.liu <Monk.Liu at amd.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jammy Zhou <jammy.zhou at amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c | 13 -------------
>   1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
> index 3beb10b..e2fcd39 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
> @@ -783,12 +783,6 @@ static int amdgpu_ttm_tt_populate(struct ttm_tt *ttm)
>   
>   	adev = amdgpu_get_adev(ttm->bdev);
>   
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
> -	if (swiotlb_nr_tbl()) {
> -		return ttm_dma_populate(&gtt->ttm, adev->dev);
> -	}
> -#endif
> -
>   	r = ttm_pool_populate(ttm);
>   	if (r) {
>   		return r;
> @@ -829,13 +823,6 @@ static void amdgpu_ttm_tt_unpopulate(struct ttm_tt *ttm)
>   
>   	adev = amdgpu_get_adev(ttm->bdev);
>   
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
> -	if (swiotlb_nr_tbl()) {
> -		ttm_dma_unpopulate(&gtt->ttm, adev->dev);
> -		return;
> -	}
> -#endif
> -
>   	for (i = 0; i < ttm->num_pages; i++) {
>   		if (gtt->ttm.dma_address[i]) {
>   			pci_unmap_page(adev->pdev, gtt->ttm.dma_address[i],




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