[Intel-gfx] Strange hugepages result?

[Thomas Hellström]

On 6/10/21 9:57 PM, Matthew Auld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 at 20:02, Thomas Hellström
> <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Matthew!
>>
>> I got a funny result from the hugepages selftest when trying to break
>> out some functionality from shmem to make a ttm page pool for
>> cached-only TTM system bos.
>>
>> It turns out that shmem computed the pagesizes using the underlying
>> pages rather than the dma segments, so when I changed that, hugepages
>> started failing.
>>
>> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/91227/
>>
>> But when hacking the page-size computation to use the underlying pages,
>> it's fine again
>>
>> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/91336/
>>
>> It seems like some assumption about huge dma segments is wrong, either
>> in our page-size calculation, in the selftest or in the actual huge page
>> setup. Could it be that huge sized segments are assumed to be properly
>> aligned?
> We disabled THP for $reasons, so shrink_thp will pretty much always
> skip I think, unless we happen to coalesce enough pages to make a 2M
> page. I guess with your change that is somehow more likely now that we
> use i915_sg_dma_sizes() and call it after we do the dma_map_sg. I
> think the intel iommu driver also does coalescing or something. The
> sg_page_sizes is mostly just a heuristic though.
>
> The test failure looks like a bug in the test though, I think since
> the object might still be active(gpu_write) we need to also force
> SHRINK_ACTIVE, otherwise the shrinker will just ignore the object. The
> test did work at some point but I guess has been modified/refactored a
> few times.

Ok makes sense. I'll see if I can fix the test then. And yes, the 
difference in behavior is most likely due to the iommu driver coalescing 
stuff.

/Thomas