[PATCH 0/7] Preemption support for A7XX

[neil.armstrong at linaro.org]

On 23/08/2024 11:54, Connor Abbott wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 9:30 AM <neil.armstrong at linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> I think it would help to test this on SM8550 and SM8450 too. I don't
> have SM8450 to test with. Maybe also worth mentioning that there are
> now vulkan CTS tests that try to test L1 preemption:
> https://github.com/KhronosGroup/VK-GL-CTS/commit/7e0e4a000f34e748bb527b39f730f78b595140b9
> although it's not in a released version yet.

Sure, It's in my plans, I'm currently testing it on SM8550.

Thanks,
Neil
> 
> Connor