[Intel-gfx] [RFC v3 1/3] drm/doc/rfc: VM_BIND feature design document

[Niranjana Vishwanathapura]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 09:22:46AM -0700, Matthew Brost wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 08:42:13AM +0300, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
>> On 02/06/2022 00:18, Matthew Brost wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 05:25:49PM +0300, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
>> > > On 17/05/2022 21:32, Niranjana Vishwanathapura wrote:
>> > > > +VM_BIND/UNBIND ioctl will immediately start binding/unbinding the mapping in an
>> > > > +async worker. The binding and unbinding will work like a special GPU engine.
>> > > > +The binding and unbinding operations are serialized and will wait on specified
>> > > > +input fences before the operation and will signal the output fences upon the
>> > > > +completion of the operation. Due to serialization, completion of an operation
>> > > > +will also indicate that all previous operations are also complete.
>> > > I guess we should avoid saying "will immediately start binding/unbinding" if
>> > > there are fences involved.
>> > >
>> > > And the fact that it's happening in an async worker seem to imply it's not
>> > > immediate.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I have a question on the behavior of the bind operation when no input fence
>> > > is provided. Let say I do :
>> > >
>> > > VM_BIND (out_fence=fence1)
>> > >
>> > > VM_BIND (out_fence=fence2)
>> > >
>> > > VM_BIND (out_fence=fence3)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > In what order are the fences going to be signaled?
>> > >
>> > > In the order of VM_BIND ioctls? Or out of order?
>> > >
>> > > Because you wrote "serialized I assume it's : in order
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > One thing I didn't realize is that because we only get one "VM_BIND" engine,
>> > > there is a disconnect from the Vulkan specification.
>> > >
>> > > In Vulkan VM_BIND operations are serialized but per engine.
>> > >
>> > > So you could have something like this :
>> > >
>> > > VM_BIND (engine=rcs0, in_fence=fence1, out_fence=fence2)
>> > >
>> > > VM_BIND (engine=ccs0, in_fence=fence3, out_fence=fence4)
>> > >
>> > Question - let's say this done after the above operations:
>> >
>> > EXEC (engine=ccs0, in_fence=NULL, out_fence=NULL)
>> >
>> > Is the exec ordered with respected to bind (i.e. would fence3 & 4 be
>> > signaled before the exec starts)?
>> >
>> > Matt
>>
>>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> From the vulkan point of view, everything is serialized within an engine (we
>> map that to a VkQueue).
>>
>> So with :
>>
>> EXEC (engine=ccs0, in_fence=NULL, out_fence=NULL)
>> VM_BIND (engine=ccs0, in_fence=fence3, out_fence=fence4)
>>
>> EXEC completes first then VM_BIND executes.
>>
>>
>> To be even clearer :
>>
>> EXEC (engine=ccs0, in_fence=fence2, out_fence=NULL)
>> VM_BIND (engine=ccs0, in_fence=fence3, out_fence=fence4)
>>
>>
>> EXEC will wait until fence2 is signaled.
>> Once fence2 is signaled, EXEC proceeds, finishes and only after it is done, VM_BIND executes.
>>
>> It would kind of like having the VM_BIND operation be another batch executed from the ringbuffer buffer.
>>
>
>Yea this makes sense. I think of VM_BINDs as more or less just another
>version of an EXEC and this fits with that.
>

Note that VM_BIND itself can bind while and EXEC (GPU job) is running.
(Say, getting binds ready for next submission). It is up to user though,
how to use it.

>In practice I don't think we can share a ring but we should be able to
>present an engine (again likely a gem context in i915) to the user that
>orders VM_BINDs / EXECs if that is what Vulkan expects, at least I think.
>

I have responded in the other thread on this.

Niranjana

>Hopefully Niranjana + Daniel agree.
>
>Matt
>
>> -Lionel
>>
>>
>> >
>> > > fence1 is not signaled
>> > >
>> > > fence3 is signaled
>> > >
>> > > So the second VM_BIND will proceed before the first VM_BIND.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I guess we can deal with that scenario in userspace by doing the wait
>> > > ourselves in one thread per engines.
>> > >
>> > > But then it makes the VM_BIND input fences useless.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Daniel : what do you think? Should be rework this or just deal with wait
>> > > fences in userspace?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Sorry I noticed this late.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > -Lionel
>> > >
>> > >
>>