[PATCH 4/7] dma-buf: add dma_fence_chain_garbage_collect

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Fri Jun 11 08:58:02 UTC 2021


On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:17:57AM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> Add some rather sophisticated lockless garbage collection
> for dma_fence_chain objects.
> 
> For this keep all initialized dma_fence_chain nodes an a
> queue and trigger garbage collection before a new one is
> allocated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>

Uh hand-rolled lockless list, I'm not a fan.

But the real question here is why? This is a global list, so it's going to
look great on your desktop, but gpus are for servers now and those are
NUMA. So just from that pov doing garbage-collection individually still
feels like a much better idea.

So what's the problem your trying to solve here?
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c | 160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/linux/dma-fence-chain.h   |   5 +
>  2 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c
> index 1b4cb3e5cec9..c2f0b69eabb7 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-chain.c
> @@ -9,8 +9,53 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/dma-fence-chain.h>
>  
> +static struct dma_fence_chain __rcu *fifo_front;
> +static struct dma_fence_chain __rcu **fifo_back = &fifo_front;
> +
>  static bool dma_fence_chain_enable_signaling(struct dma_fence *fence);
>  
> +/**
> + * dma_fence_chain_enqueue - enqeue a chain node for garbage collection
> + * @chain: the chain node to enqueue
> + *
> + * Add the chain node to the end of the gc fifo.
> + */
> +static void dma_fence_chain_enqueue(struct dma_fence_chain *chain)
> +{
> +	struct dma_fence_chain __rcu **tmp;
> +
> +	RCU_INIT_POINTER(chain->next, NULL);
> +	tmp = xchg((struct dma_fence_chain __force ***)&fifo_back,
> +		   &chain->next);
> +
> +	/* This is intentionally unordered since we only need the fifo for gc */
> +	rcu_assign_pointer(*tmp, chain);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * dma_fence_chain_dequeue - deqeueue a chain node for garbage collection
> + *
> + * Remove the first chain node from the gc fifo while making sure that always
> + * keep at least one node on the fifo for lockless fifo implementation.
> + * Returns the dequeued chain node or NULL.
> + */
> +static struct dma_fence_chain *dma_fence_chain_dequeue(void)
> +{
> +	struct dma_fence_chain *chain, *tmp;
> +
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	chain = rcu_dereference(fifo_front);
> +	/* Never dequeue the last chain node for lockless fifo */
> +	if (unlikely(!chain || !rcu_access_pointer(chain->next))) {
> +		rcu_read_unlock();
> +		return NULL;
> +	}
> +	tmp = cmpxchg((struct dma_fence_chain __force **)&fifo_front,
> +		      chain, rcu_access_pointer(chain->next));
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
> +	return tmp == chain ? chain : NULL;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * dma_fence_chain_get_prev - use RCU to get a reference to the previous fence
>   * @chain: chain node to get the previous node from
> @@ -28,6 +73,43 @@ static struct dma_fence *dma_fence_chain_get_prev(struct dma_fence_chain *chain)
>  	return prev;
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * dma_fence_chain_try_replace - try to replace the prev node
> + * @chain: Chain node we try to replace prev.
> + * @prev: the old prev node
> + *
> + * Try to replace the previous chain node when it or its containing fence is
> + * signaled. Returns true if we tried, false if we need to wait.
> + */
> +static bool dma_fence_chain_try_replace(struct dma_fence_chain *chain,
> +					struct dma_fence *prev)
> +{
> +	struct dma_fence *replacement, *tmp;
> +	struct dma_fence_chain *prev_chain;
> +
> +	prev_chain = to_dma_fence_chain(prev);
> +	if (prev_chain) {
> +		if (!dma_fence_is_signaled(prev_chain->fence))
> +			return false;
> +
> +		replacement = dma_fence_chain_get_prev(prev_chain);
> +	} else {
> +		if (!dma_fence_is_signaled(prev))
> +			return false;
> +
> +		replacement = NULL;
> +	}
> +
> +	tmp = cmpxchg((struct dma_fence __force **)&chain->prev, prev,
> +		      replacement);
> +	if (tmp == prev)
> +		dma_fence_put(tmp);
> +	else
> +		dma_fence_put(replacement);
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * dma_fence_chain_walk - chain walking function
>   * @fence: current chain node
> @@ -38,8 +120,8 @@ static struct dma_fence *dma_fence_chain_get_prev(struct dma_fence_chain *chain)
>   */
>  struct dma_fence *dma_fence_chain_walk(struct dma_fence *fence)
>  {
> -	struct dma_fence_chain *chain, *prev_chain;
> -	struct dma_fence *prev, *replacement, *tmp;
> +	struct dma_fence_chain *chain;
> +	struct dma_fence *prev;
>  
>  	chain = to_dma_fence_chain(fence);
>  	if (!chain) {
> @@ -48,26 +130,8 @@ struct dma_fence *dma_fence_chain_walk(struct dma_fence *fence)
>  	}
>  
>  	while ((prev = dma_fence_chain_get_prev(chain))) {
> -
> -		prev_chain = to_dma_fence_chain(prev);
> -		if (prev_chain) {
> -			if (!dma_fence_is_signaled(prev_chain->fence))
> -				break;
> -
> -			replacement = dma_fence_chain_get_prev(prev_chain);
> -		} else {
> -			if (!dma_fence_is_signaled(prev))
> -				break;
> -
> -			replacement = NULL;
> -		}
> -
> -		tmp = cmpxchg((struct dma_fence __force **)&chain->prev,
> -			      prev, replacement);
> -		if (tmp == prev)
> -			dma_fence_put(tmp);
> -		else
> -			dma_fence_put(replacement);
> +		if (!dma_fence_chain_try_replace(chain, prev))
> +			break;
>  		dma_fence_put(prev);
>  	}
>  
> @@ -205,7 +269,21 @@ static void dma_fence_chain_release(struct dma_fence *fence)
>  	dma_fence_put(prev);
>  
>  	dma_fence_put(chain->fence);
> -	dma_fence_free(fence);
> +	WRITE_ONCE(chain->fence, NULL);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Don't garbage collect here to avoid recursion and potential stack
> +	 * overflow.
> +	 */
> +	chain = dma_fence_chain_dequeue();
> +	if (!chain)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (kref_read(&chain->base.refcount) ||
> +	    READ_ONCE(chain->fence))
> +		dma_fence_chain_enqueue(chain);
> +	else
> +		dma_fence_free(&chain->base);
>  }
>  
>  const struct dma_fence_ops dma_fence_chain_ops = {
> @@ -218,6 +296,40 @@ const struct dma_fence_ops dma_fence_chain_ops = {
>  };
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_fence_chain_ops);
>  
> +/**
> + * dma_fence_chain_garbage_collect - cleanup chain nodes
> + *
> + * Do some garbage collection and try to release chain nodes.
> + */
> +void dma_fence_chain_garbage_collect(void)
> +{
> +	struct dma_fence_chain *chain = dma_fence_chain_dequeue();
> +
> +	if (!chain)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (!dma_fence_get_rcu(&chain->base)) {
> +		/* Unused, check if it's also clean */
> +		if (likely(!READ_ONCE(chain->fence))) {
> +			dma_fence_free(&chain->base);
> +			return;
> +		}
> +
> +	} else {
> +		struct dma_fence *prev;
> +
> +		/* Used, do some chain walk */
> +		prev = dma_fence_chain_get_prev(chain);
> +		if (prev) {
> +			dma_fence_chain_try_replace(chain, prev);
> +			dma_fence_put(prev);
> +		}
> +		dma_fence_put(&chain->base);
> +	}
> +	dma_fence_chain_enqueue(chain);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_fence_chain_garbage_collect);
> +
>  /**
>   * dma_fence_chain_init - initialize a fence chain
>   * @chain: the chain node to initialize
> @@ -254,5 +366,7 @@ void dma_fence_chain_init(struct dma_fence_chain *chain,
>  
>  	dma_fence_init(&chain->base, &dma_fence_chain_ops,
>  		       &chain->lock, context, seqno);
> +	dma_fence_chain_enqueue(chain);
>  }
> +
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_fence_chain_init);
> diff --git a/include/linux/dma-fence-chain.h b/include/linux/dma-fence-chain.h
> index 5f45689a6d2e..b412b5396434 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dma-fence-chain.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dma-fence-chain.h
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>   * @base: fence base class
>   * @lock: spinlock for fence handling
>   * @prev: previous fence of the chain
> + * @next: next chain node for garbage collection
>   * @prev_seqno: original previous seqno before garbage collection
>   * @fence: encapsulated fence
>   * @cb: callback structure for signaling
> @@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
>  struct dma_fence_chain {
>  	struct dma_fence base;
>  	struct dma_fence __rcu *prev;
> +	struct dma_fence_chain __rcu *next;
>  	u64 prev_seqno;
>  	struct dma_fence *fence;
>  	union {
> @@ -38,6 +40,8 @@ struct dma_fence_chain {
>  
>  extern const struct dma_fence_ops dma_fence_chain_ops;
>  
> +void dma_fence_chain_garbage_collect(void);
> +
>  /**
>   * to_dma_fence_chain - cast a fence to a dma_fence_chain
>   * @fence: fence to cast to a dma_fence_array
> @@ -61,6 +65,7 @@ to_dma_fence_chain(struct dma_fence *fence)
>   */
>  static inline struct dma_fence_chain *dma_fence_chain_alloc(void)
>  {
> +	dma_fence_chain_garbage_collect();
>  	return kmalloc(sizeof(struct dma_fence_chain), GFP_KERNEL);
>  };
>  
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch


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