[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v1] drm/i915: Add IOCTL Param to control data port coherency.
Joonas Lahtinen
joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com
Thu Jun 21 06:39:09 UTC 2018
Changelog would be much appreciated. And this is not the first version
of the series. It helps to remind the reviewer that original
implementation was changed into IOCTl based on feedback. Please see the
git log in i915 for some examples.
Quoting Tomasz Lis (2018-06-20 18:03:07)
> The patch adds a parameter to control the data port coherency functionality
> on a per-context level. When the IOCTL is called, a command to switch data
> port coherency state is added to the ordered list. All prior requests are
> executed on old coherency settings, and all exec requests after the IOCTL
> will use new settings.
>
> Rationale:
>
> The OpenCL driver develpers requested a functionality to control cache
> coherency at data port level. Keeping the coherency at that level is disabled
> by default due to its performance costs. OpenCL driver is planning to
> enable it for a small subset of submissions, when such functionality is
> required. Below are answers to basic question explaining background
> of the functionality and reasoning for the proposed implementation:
>
> 1. Why do we need a coherency enable/disable switch for memory that is shared
> between CPU and GEN (GPU)?
>
> Memory coherency between CPU and GEN, while being a great feature that enables
> CL_MEM_SVM_FINE_GRAIN_BUFFER OCL capability on Intel GEN architecture, adds
> overhead related to tracking (snooping) memory inside different cache units
> (L1$, L2$, L3$, LLC$, etc.). At the same time, minority of modern OCL
> applications actually use CL_MEM_SVM_FINE_GRAIN_BUFFER (and hence require
> memory coherency between CPU and GPU). The goal of coherency enable/disable
> switch is to remove overhead of memory coherency when memory coherency is not
> needed.
>
> 2. Why do we need a global coherency switch?
>
> In order to support I/O commands from within EUs (Execution Units), Intel GEN
> ISA (GEN Instruction Set Assembly) contains dedicated "send" instructions.
> These send instructions provide several addressing models. One of these
> addressing models (named "stateless") provides most flexible I/O using plain
> virtual addresses (as opposed to buffer_handle+offset models). This "stateless"
> model is similar to regular memory load/store operations available on typical
> CPUs. Since this model provides I/O using arbitrary virtual addresses, it
> enables algorithmic designs that are based on pointer-to-pointer (e.g. buffer
> of pointers) concepts. For instance, it allows creating tree-like data
> structures such as:
> ________________
> | NODE1 |
> | uint64_t data |
> +----------------|
> | NODE* | NODE*|
> +--------+-------+
> / \
> ________________/ \________________
> | NODE2 | | NODE3 |
> | uint64_t data | | uint64_t data |
> +----------------| +----------------|
> | NODE* | NODE*| | NODE* | NODE*|
> +--------+-------+ +--------+-------+
>
> Please note that pointers inside such structures can point to memory locations
> in different OCL allocations - e.g. NODE1 and NODE2 can reside in one OCL
> allocation while NODE3 resides in a completely separate OCL allocation.
> Additionally, such pointers can be shared with CPU (i.e. using SVM - Shared
> Virtual Memory feature). Using pointers from different allocations doesn't
> affect the stateless addressing model which even allows scattered reading from
> different allocations at the same time (i.e. by utilizing SIMD-nature of send
> instructions).
>
> When it comes to coherency programming, send instructions in stateless model
> can be encoded (at ISA level) to either use or disable coherency. However, for
> generic OCL applications (such as example with tree-like data structure), OCL
> compiler is not able to determine origin of memory pointed to by an arbitrary
> pointer - i.e. is not able to track given pointer back to a specific
> allocation. As such, it's not able to decide whether coherency is needed or not
> for specific pointer (or for specific I/O instruction). As a result, compiler
> encodes all stateless sends as coherent (doing otherwise would lead to
> functional issues resulting from data corruption). Please note that it would be
> possible to workaround this (e.g. based on allocations map and pointer bounds
> checking prior to each I/O instruction) but the performance cost of such
> workaround would be many times greater than the cost of keeping coherency
> always enabled. As such, enabling/disabling memory coherency at GEN ISA level
> is not feasible and alternative method is needed.
>
> Such alternative solution is to have a global coherency switch that allows
> disabling coherency for single (though entire) GPU submission. This is
> beneficial because this way we:
> * can enable (and pay for) coherency only in submissions that actually need
> coherency (submissions that use CL_MEM_SVM_FINE_GRAIN_BUFFER resources)
> * don't care about coherency at GEN ISA granularity (no performance impact)
>
> 3. Will coherency switch be used frequently?
>
> There are scenarios that will require frequent toggling of the coherency
> switch.
> E.g. an application has two OCL compute kernels: kern_master and kern_worker.
> kern_master uses, concurrently with CPU, some fine grain SVM resources
> (CL_MEM_SVM_FINE_GRAIN_BUFFER). These resources contain descriptors of
> computational work that needs to be executed. kern_master analyzes incoming
> work descriptors and populates a plain OCL buffer (non-fine-grain) with payload
> for kern_worker. Once kern_master is done, kern_worker kicks-in and processes
> the payload that kern_master produced. These two kernels work in a loop, one
> after another. Since only kern_master requires coherency, kern_worker should
> not be forced to pay for it. This means that we need to have the ability to
> toggle coherency switch on or off per each GPU submission:
> (ENABLE COHERENCY) kern_master -> (DISABLE COHERENCY)kern_worker -> (ENABLE
> COHERENCY) kern_master -> (DISABLE COHERENCY)kern_worker -> ...
>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Michal Winiarski <michal.winiarski at intel.com>
>
> Bspec: 11419
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Lis <tomasz.lis at intel.com>
<SNIP>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
> index ccf463a..ea65ae6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
> @@ -711,6 +711,24 @@ static bool client_is_banned(struct drm_i915_file_private *file_priv)
> return atomic_read(&file_priv->ban_score) >= I915_CLIENT_SCORE_BANNED;
> }
>
> +static int i915_gem_context_set_data_port_coherent(struct i915_gem_context *ctx)
> +{
> + int ret;
> + ret = intel_lr_context_modify_data_port_coherency(ctx, true);
> + if (!GEM_WARN_ON(ret))
I don't think there's need for the WARN as the error will be propagated
back to userspace?
> + __set_bit(CONTEXT_DATA_PORT_COHERENT, &ctx->flags);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static int i915_gem_context_clear_data_port_coherent(struct i915_gem_context *ctx)
> +{
> + int ret;
> + ret = intel_lr_context_modify_data_port_coherency(ctx, false);
> + if (!GEM_WARN_ON(ret))
Ditto.
> + __clear_bit(CONTEXT_DATA_PORT_COHERENT, &ctx->flags);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> int i915_gem_context_create_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
> struct drm_file *file)
> {
> @@ -784,6 +802,7 @@ int i915_gem_context_destroy_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
> int i915_gem_context_getparam_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
> struct drm_file *file)
> {
> + struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(dev);
> struct drm_i915_file_private *file_priv = file->driver_priv;
> struct drm_i915_gem_context_param *args = data;
> struct i915_gem_context *ctx;
> @@ -818,6 +837,16 @@ int i915_gem_context_getparam_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
> case I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_PRIORITY:
> args->value = ctx->sched.priority;
> break;
> + case I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_COHERENCY:
> + /*
> + * ENODEV if the feature is not supported. This removes the need
> + * of separate IS_SUPPORTED parameter.
> + */
Code speaks for itself, the comment is not needed.
> + if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) < 9)
> + ret = -ENODEV;
> + else
> + args->value = i915_gem_context_is_data_port_coherent(ctx);
> + break;
> default:
> ret = -EINVAL;
> break;
> @@ -893,6 +923,17 @@ int i915_gem_context_setparam_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
> }
> break;
>
> + case I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_COHERENCY:
> + if (args->size)
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + else if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) < 9)
> + ret = -ENODEV;
> + else if (args->value)
> + ret = i915_gem_context_set_data_port_coherent(ctx);
> + else
> + ret = i915_gem_context_clear_data_port_coherent(ctx);
Be more strict with the uAPI. Only accept values 0 or 1, then you leave
space for extension in the future.
> + break;
> +
> default:
> ret = -EINVAL;
> break;
<SNIP>
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
I'm feeling this is not the right file. The bit is in hardware context,
and doesn't have so much to do with LRC.
> @@ -258,6 +258,57 @@ intel_lr_context_descriptor_update(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
> ce->lrc_desc = desc;
> }
>
> +static int emit_set_data_port_coherency(struct i915_request *req, bool enable)
> +{
> + u32 *cs;
> + i915_reg_t reg;
> +
> + GEM_BUG_ON(req->engine->class != RENDER_CLASS);
> + GEM_BUG_ON(INTEL_GEN(req->i915) < 9);
> +
> + cs = intel_ring_begin(req, 4);
> + if (IS_ERR(cs))
> + return PTR_ERR(cs);
> +
> + if (INTEL_GEN(req->i915) >= 10)
> + reg = CNL_HDC_CHICKEN0;
> + else
> + reg = HDC_CHICKEN0;
> +
> + /* FIXME: this feature may be unuseable on CNL; If this checks to be
> + * true, we should enodev for CNL. */
This is exactly why we want the IGT tests to check for effects, not for
the register. Then we can get an answer by running the tests on all kind
of CNL systems at hand.
> + *cs++ = MI_LOAD_REGISTER_IMM(1);
> + *cs++ = i915_mmio_reg_offset(reg);
> + /* Enabling coherency means disabling the bit which forces it off */
Code is again very self explanatory without the comment.
> + if (enable)
> + *cs++ = _MASKED_BIT_DISABLE(HDC_FORCE_NON_COHERENT);
> + else
> + *cs++ = _MASKED_BIT_ENABLE(HDC_FORCE_NON_COHERENT);
> + *cs++ = MI_NOOP;
> +
> + intel_ring_advance(req, cs);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +int
> +intel_lr_context_modify_data_port_coherency(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
> + bool enable)
> +{
> + struct i915_request *req;
> + int ret;
> +
> + req = i915_request_alloc(ctx->i915->engine[RCS], ctx);
> + if (IS_ERR(req))
> + return PTR_ERR(req);
> +
> + ret = emit_set_data_port_coherency(req, enable);
> +
> + i915_request_add(req);
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
I'm thinking we should set this value when it has changed, when we insert the
requests into the command stream. So if you change back and forth, while
not emitting any requests, nothing really happens. If you change the value and
emit a request, we should emit a LRI before the jump to the commands.
Similary if you keep setting the value to the value it already was in,
nothing will happen, again.
> +
> static struct i915_priolist *
> lookup_priolist(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, int prio)
> {
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h
> index 1593194..214e291 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h
> @@ -104,4 +104,8 @@ struct i915_gem_context;
>
> void intel_lr_context_resume(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv);
>
> +int
> +intel_lr_context_modify_data_port_coherency(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
> + bool enable);
> +
> #endif /* _INTEL_LRC_H_ */
> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
> index 7f5634c..fab072f 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
> @@ -1453,6 +1453,7 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_context_param {
> #define I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_NO_ERROR_CAPTURE 0x4
> #define I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_BANNABLE 0x5
> #define I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_PRIORITY 0x6
> +#define I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_COHERENCY 0x7
Please add this line after the indented context priorities.
> #define I915_CONTEXT_MAX_USER_PRIORITY 1023 /* inclusive */
> #define I915_CONTEXT_DEFAULT_PRIORITY 0
> #define I915_CONTEXT_MIN_USER_PRIORITY -1023 /* inclusive */
Here.
Regards, Joonas
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