[PATCH 0/7] Preemption support for A7XX

[neil.armstrong at linaro.org]

On 15/08/2024 20:26, Antonino Maniscalco wrote:
> This series implements preemption for A7XX targets, which allows the GPU to
> switch to an higher priority ring when work is pushed to it, reducing latency
> for high priority submissions.
> 
> This series enables L1 preemption with skip_save_restore which requires
> the following userspace patches to function:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/30544
> 
> A flag is added to `msm_gem_submit` to only allow submissions from compatible
> userspace to be preempted, therefore maintaining compatibility.
> 
> Some commits from this series are based on a previous series to enable
> preemption on A6XX targets:
> 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/1520489185-21828-1-git-send-email-smasetty@codeaurora.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonino Maniscalco <antomani103 at gmail.com>
> ---
> Antonino Maniscalco (7):
>        drm/msm: Fix bv_fence being used as bv_rptr
>        drm/msm: Add submitqueue setup and close
>        drm/msm: Add a `preempt_record_size` field
>        drm/msm/A6xx: Implement preemption for A7XX targets
>        drm/msm/A6xx: Add traces for preemption
>        drm/msm/A6XX: Add a flag to allow preemption to submitqueue_create
>        drm/msm/A6xx: Enable preemption for A7xx targets
> 
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Makefile              |   1 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_catalog.c |   3 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c     | 339 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.h     | 168 ++++++++++++
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_preempt.c | 441 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.h   |   1 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.h             |   7 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu_trace.h       |  28 ++
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_ringbuffer.h      |   8 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_submitqueue.c     |  10 +
>   include/uapi/drm/msm_drm.h                |   5 +-
>   11 files changed, 995 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 7c626ce4bae1ac14f60076d00eafe71af30450ba
> change-id: 20240815-preemption-a750-t-fcee9a844b39
> 
> Best regards,

For what is worth, I've tested it on the SM8650 QRD with the Mesa 30544 MR & vkcube

Tested-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org> # on SM8650-QRD

If you think of more tests to run, please tell me.

Neil