[PATCH v4 00/11] Preemption support for A7XX

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Tue Sep 24 14:47:12 UTC 2024


On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 4:54 AM Antonino Maniscalco
<antomani103 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/20/24 7:09 PM, Akhil P Oommen wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 09:46:33AM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 17/09/2024 13:14, 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_submitqueue_create` to only allow submissions
> >>> from compatible userspace to be preempted, therefore maintaining
> >>> compatibility.
> >>>
> >>> Preemption is currently only enabled by default on A750, it can be
> >>> enabled on other targets through the `enable_preemption` module
> >>> parameter. This is because more testing is required on other targets.
> >>>
> >>> For testing on other HW it is sufficient to set that parameter to a
> >>> value of 1, then using the branch of mesa linked above, `TU_DEBUG=hiprio`
> >>> allows to run any application as high priority therefore preempting
> >>> submissions from other applications.
> >>>
> >>> The `msm_gpu_preemption_trigger` and `msm_gpu_preemption_irq` traces
> >>> added in this series can be used to observe preemption's behavior as
> >>> well as measuring preemption latency.
> >>>
> >>> 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>
> >>> ---
> >>> Changes in v4:
> >>> - Added missing register in pwrup list
> >>> - Removed and rearrange barriers
> >>> - Renamed `skip_inline_wptr` to `restore_wptr`
> >>> - Track ctx seqno per ring
> >>> - Removed secure preempt context
> >>> - NOP out postamble to disable it instantly
> >>> - Only emit pwrup reglist once
> >>> - Document bv_rptr_addr
> >>> - Removed unused A6XX_PREEMPT_USER_RECORD_SIZE
> >>> - Set name on preempt record buffer
> >>> - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240905-preemption-a750-t-v3-0-fd947699f7bc@gmail.com
> >>>
> >>> Changes in v3:
> >>> - Added documentation about preemption
> >>> - Use quirks to determine which target supports preemption
> >>> - Add a module parameter to force disabling or enabling preemption
> >>> - Clear postamble when profiling
> >>> - Define A6XX_CP_CONTEXT_SWITCH_CNTL_LEVEL fields in a6xx.xml
> >>> - Make preemption records MAP_PRIV
> >>> - Removed user ctx record (NON_PRIV) and patch 2/9 as it's not needed
> >>>     anymore
> >>> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240830-preemption-a750-t-v2-0-86aeead2cd80@gmail.com
> >>>
> >>> Changes in v2:
> >>> - Added preept_record_size for X185 in PATCH 3/7
> >>> - Added patches to reset perf counters
> >>> - Dropped unused defines
> >>> - Dropped unused variable (fixes warning)
> >>> - Only enable preemption on a750
> >>> - Reject MSM_SUBMITQUEUE_ALLOW_PREEMPT for unsupported targets
> >>> - Added Akhil's Reviewed-By tags to patches 1/9,2/9,3/9
> >>> - Added Neil's Tested-By tags
> >>> - Added explanation for UAPI changes in commit message
> >>> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240815-preemption-a750-t-v1-0-7bda26c34037@gmail.com
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> Antonino Maniscalco (11):
> >>>         drm/msm: Fix bv_fence being used as bv_rptr
> >>>         drm/msm/A6XX: Track current_ctx_seqno per ring
> >>>         drm/msm: Add a `preempt_record_size` field
> >>>         drm/msm: Add CONTEXT_SWITCH_CNTL bitfields
> >>>         drm/msm/A6xx: Implement preemption for A7XX targets
> >>>         drm/msm/A6xx: Sync relevant adreno_pm4.xml changes
> >>>         drm/msm/A6xx: Use posamble to reset counters on preemption
> >>>         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 A750
> >>>         Documentation: document adreno preemption
> >>>
> >>>    Documentation/gpu/msm-preemption.rst               |  98 +++++
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Makefile                       |   1 +
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a2xx_gpu.c              |   2 +-
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a3xx_gpu.c              |   2 +-
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a4xx_gpu.c              |   2 +-
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a5xx_gpu.c              |   6 +-
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_catalog.c          |   7 +-
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c              | 325 ++++++++++++++-
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.h              | 174 ++++++++
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_preempt.c          | 440 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.h            |   9 +-
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c                      |   4 +
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c                      |   2 +-
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.h                      |  11 -
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu_trace.h                |  28 ++
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_ringbuffer.h               |  18 +
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_submitqueue.c              |   3 +
> >>>    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/registers/adreno/a6xx.xml      |   7 +-
> >>>    .../gpu/drm/msm/registers/adreno/adreno_pm4.xml    |  39 +-
> >>>    include/uapi/drm/msm_drm.h                         |   5 +-
> >>>    20 files changed, 1117 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> >>> ---
> >>> base-commit: 7c626ce4bae1ac14f60076d00eafe71af30450ba
> >>> change-id: 20240815-preemption-a750-t-fcee9a844b39
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>
> >> I've been running vulkan-cts (1.3.7.3-0-gd71a36db16d98313c431829432a136dbda692a08 from Yocto)
> >> on SM8650-QRD, SM8550-QRD & SM8450-HDK boards with enable_preemption in default value
> >> and forced to 1, and I've seen no regression so far
> >>
> >> On SM8550, I've seen a few:
> >> platform 3d6a000.gmu: [drm:a6xx_hfi_send_msg.constprop.0 [msm]] *ERROR* Message HFI_H2F_MSG_GX_BW_PERF_VOTE id 2743 timed out waiting for response
> >> platform 3d6a000.gmu: [drm:a6xx_hfi_send_msg.constprop.0 [msm]] *ERROR* Unexpected message id 2743 on the response queue
> >> but it's unrelated to preempt
> >>
> >> and on SM8450:
> >> platform 3d6a000.gmu: [drm:a6xx_gmu_set_oob [msm]] *ERROR* Timeout waiting for GMU OOB set GPU_SET: 0x0
> >> msm_dpu ae01000.display-controller: [drm:hangcheck_handler [msm]] *ERROR* 7.3.0.1: hangcheck detected gpu lockup rb 0!
> >> msm_dpu ae01000.display-controller: [drm:hangcheck_handler [msm]] *ERROR* 7.3.0.1:     completed fence: 331235
> >> msm_dpu ae01000.display-controller: [drm:hangcheck_handler [msm]] *ERROR* 7.3.0.1:     submitted fence: 331236
> >> adreno 3d00000.gpu: [drm:a6xx_irq [msm]] *ERROR* gpu fault ring 0 fence 50de4 status 00800005 rb 0000/0699 ib1 0000000000000000/0000 ib2 0000000000000000/0000
> >> msm_dpu ae01000.display-controller: [drm:recover_worker [msm]] *ERROR* 7.3.0.1: hangcheck recover!
> >> msm_dpu ae01000.display-controller: [drm:recover_worker [msm]] *ERROR* 7.3.0.1: offending task: deqp-vk (/usr/lib/vulkan-cts/deqp-vk)
> >> msm_dpu ae01000.display-controller: [drm:recover_worker [msm]] *ERROR* 7.3.0.1: hangcheck recover!
> >> leading to a VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST, but again unrelated to preempt support.
> >>
> >> So you can also add:
> >> Tested-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org> # on SM8550-QRD
> >> Tested-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org> # on SM8450-HDK
> >>
> >
> > Niel,
> >
> > On my x1e device, all submissions were somehow going into only a single
> > ring, even the compositor's. Not sure why. So effectively preemption was
> > not really exercised. I had to force one of the two benchmark I ran
> > using the "highprio" mesa debug flag force submittions to ring 0.
>
> I think that is because GL applications (so most compositors) run
> through zink which does not forward GL preemption to vulkan so yeah, for
> GL applications the only way of getting preemption is the debug flag.

I guess if it is mesa 24.2.x or newer it would be using the gallium
driver.  Which I guess would need xAMBLE stuff wired up.  Outside of
fd6_emit_restore() and fd6_gmem.cc there isn't really any state emit
in IB1, so I guess it probably wouldn't be too hard to get preemption
support wired up.

BR,
-R

> Unfortunately this is not easy to fix in Zink because it creates one
> VkDevice at screen creation and uses it for all GL contexts. Since GL
> priority is provided per context and at context creation time Zink has
> no way of handling this.
>
> Once TU will support more than one queue it will be possible for Zink to
> create one queue per priority then pick one at context creation time.
> Doing so would require a new vulkan extension for per queue global
> priority. I had started working on this some time ago
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/antonino/mesa/-/tree/priority_ext?ref_type=heads
> but this solution will only be viable once TU can expose more than one
> queue.
>
> >
> > If possible it is a good idea to check the new preemption traces to
> > ensure preemption kicks in.
> >
> > -Akhil
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> Neil
>
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Antonino Maniscalco <antomani103 at gmail.com>


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