[PATCH v2 16/16] drm/vmwgfx: Optimize initial sizes of cotables

Zack Rusin zack at kde.org
Thu Oct 20 03:41:31 UTC 2022


From: Zack Rusin <zackr at vmware.com>

It's important to get the initial size of cotables right because
otherwise every app needs to start with a synchronous cotable resize.

This has an measurable impact on system wide performance but is not
relevant for long running single full screen apps for which the cotable
resizes will happen early in the lifecycle and will continue running
just fine.

To eliminate the initial cotable resizes match the initial sizes to what
the userspace expects. The actual result of the patch is simply setting
the initial size of two of the cotables to a size that will align them
to two pages instead of one.

For a piglit run, before:
name               |  total |  per frame | per sec
vmw_cotable_resize |   1405 |       0.12 |    1.58
vmw_execbuf_ioctl  | 290805 |      25.43 |  326.05

After:
name               |  total |  per frame | per sec
vmw_cotable_resize |      4 |       0.00 |    0.00
vmw_execbuf_ioctl  | 281673 |      25.10 |  274.68

Signed-off-by: Zack Rusin <zackr at vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Banack <banackm at vmware.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_cotable.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_cotable.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_cotable.c
index a4c30f950d7c..0422b6b89cc1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_cotable.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_cotable.c
@@ -73,12 +73,24 @@ struct vmw_cotable_info {
 			    bool);
 };
 
+
+/*
+ * Getting the initial size right is difficult because it all depends
+ * on what the userspace is doing. The sizes will be aligned up to
+ * a PAGE_SIZE so we just want to make sure that for majority of apps
+ * the initial number of entries doesn't require an immediate resize.
+ * For all cotables except SVGACOTableDXElementLayoutEntry and
+ * SVGACOTableDXBlendStateEntry the initial number of entries fits
+ * within the PAGE_SIZE. For SVGACOTableDXElementLayoutEntry and
+ * SVGACOTableDXBlendStateEntry we want to reserve two pages,
+ * because that's what all apps will require initially.
+ */
 static const struct vmw_cotable_info co_info[] = {
 	{1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXRTViewEntry), &vmw_view_cotable_list_destroy},
 	{1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXDSViewEntry), &vmw_view_cotable_list_destroy},
 	{1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXSRViewEntry), &vmw_view_cotable_list_destroy},
-	{1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXElementLayoutEntry), NULL},
-	{1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXBlendStateEntry), NULL},
+	{PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(SVGACOTableDXElementLayoutEntry) + 1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXElementLayoutEntry), NULL},
+	{PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(SVGACOTableDXBlendStateEntry) + 1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXBlendStateEntry), NULL},
 	{1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXDepthStencilEntry), NULL},
 	{1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXRasterizerStateEntry), NULL},
 	{1, sizeof(SVGACOTableDXSamplerEntry), NULL},
-- 
2.34.1



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