[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v6 2/2] drm/i915/gem: Don't try to map and fence large scanout buffers (v9)
Kasireddy, Vivek
vivek.kasireddy at intel.com
Wed Mar 16 07:37:06 UTC 2022
Hi Tvrtko,
>
> On 15/03/2022 07:28, Kasireddy, Vivek wrote:
> > Hi Tvrtko, Daniel,
> >
> >>
> >> On 11/03/2022 09:39, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 21:38, Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy at intel.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On platforms capable of allowing 8K (7680 x 4320) modes, pinning 2 or
> >>>> more framebuffers/scanout buffers results in only one that is mappable/
> >>>> fenceable. Therefore, pageflipping between these 2 FBs where only one
> >>>> is mappable/fenceable creates latencies large enough to miss alternate
> >>>> vblanks thereby producing less optimal framerate.
> >>>>
> >>>> This mainly happens because when i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane()
> >>>> is called to pin one of the FB objs, the associated vma is identified
> >>>> as misplaced and therefore i915_vma_unbind() is called which unbinds and
> >>>> evicts it. This misplaced vma gets subseqently pinned only when
> >>>> i915_gem_object_ggtt_pin_ww() is called without PIN_MAPPABLE. This
> >>>> results in a latency of ~10ms and happens every other vblank/repaint cycle.
> >>>> Therefore, to fix this issue, we try to see if there is space to map
> >>>> at-least two objects of a given size and return early if there isn't. This
> >>>> would ensure that we do not try with PIN_MAPPABLE for any objects that
> >>>> are too big to map thereby preventing unncessary unbind.
> >>>>
> >>>> Testcase:
> >>>> Running Weston and weston-simple-egl on an Alderlake_S (ADLS) platform
> >>>> with a 8K at 60 mode results in only ~40 FPS. Since upstream Weston submits
> >>>> a frame ~7ms before the next vblank, the latencies seen between atomic
> >>>> commit and flip event are 7, 24 (7 + 16.66), 7, 24..... suggesting that
> >>>> it misses the vblank every other frame.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is the ftrace snippet that shows the source of the ~10ms latency:
> >>>> i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane() {
> >>>> 0.102 us | i915_gem_object_set_cache_level();
> >>>> i915_gem_object_ggtt_pin_ww() {
> >>>> 0.390 us | i915_vma_instance();
> >>>> 0.178 us | i915_vma_misplaced();
> >>>> i915_vma_unbind() {
> >>>> __i915_active_wait() {
> >>>> 0.082 us | i915_active_acquire_if_busy();
> >>>> 0.475 us | }
> >>>> intel_runtime_pm_get() {
> >>>> 0.087 us | intel_runtime_pm_acquire();
> >>>> 0.259 us | }
> >>>> __i915_active_wait() {
> >>>> 0.085 us | i915_active_acquire_if_busy();
> >>>> 0.240 us | }
> >>>> __i915_vma_evict() {
> >>>> ggtt_unbind_vma() {
> >>>> gen8_ggtt_clear_range() {
> >>>> 10507.255 us | }
> >>>> 10507.689 us | }
> >>>> 10508.516 us | }
> >>>>
> >>>> v2: Instead of using bigjoiner checks, determine whether a scanout
> >>>> buffer is too big by checking to see if it is possible to map
> >>>> two of them into the ggtt.
> >>>>
> >>>> v3 (Ville):
> >>>> - Count how many fb objects can be fit into the available holes
> >>>> instead of checking for a hole twice the object size.
> >>>> - Take alignment constraints into account.
> >>>> - Limit this large scanout buffer check to >= Gen 11 platforms.
> >>>>
> >>>> v4:
> >>>> - Remove existing heuristic that checks just for size. (Ville)
> >>>> - Return early if we find space to map at-least two objects. (Tvrtko)
> >>>> - Slightly update the commit message.
> >>>>
> >>>> v5: (Tvrtko)
> >>>> - Rename the function to indicate that the object may be too big to
> >>>> map into the aperture.
> >>>> - Account for guard pages while calculating the total size required
> >>>> for the object.
> >>>> - Do not subject all objects to the heuristic check and instead
> >>>> consider objects only of a certain size.
> >>>> - Do the hole walk using the rbtree.
> >>>> - Preserve the existing PIN_NONBLOCK logic.
> >>>> - Drop the PIN_MAPPABLE check while pinning the VMA.
> >>>>
> >>>> v6: (Tvrtko)
> >>>> - Return 0 on success and the specific error code on failure to
> >>>> preserve the existing behavior.
> >>>>
> >>>> v7: (Ville)
> >>>> - Drop the HAS_GMCH(i915), DISPLAY_VER(i915) < 11 and
> >>>> size < ggtt->mappable_end / 4 checks.
> >>>> - Drop the redundant check that is based on previous heuristic.
> >>>>
> >>>> v8:
> >>>> - Make sure that we are holding the mutex associated with ggtt vm
> >>>> as we traverse the hole nodes.
> >>>>
> >>>> v9: (Tvrtko)
> >>>> - Use mutex_lock_interruptible_nested() instead of mutex_lock().
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> >>>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> >>>> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com>
> >>>> Cc: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare at intel.com>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy at intel.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >>>> 1 file changed, 94 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> >>>> index 9747924cc57b..e0d731b3f215 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> >>>> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
> >>>> #include "gem/i915_gem_pm.h"
> >>>> #include "gem/i915_gem_region.h"
> >>>> #include "gem/i915_gem_userptr.h"
> >>>> +#include "gem/i915_gem_tiling.h"
> >>>> #include "gt/intel_engine_user.h"
> >>>> #include "gt/intel_gt.h"
> >>>> #include "gt/intel_gt_pm.h"
> >>>> @@ -882,6 +883,96 @@ static void discard_ggtt_vma(struct i915_vma *vma)
> >>>> spin_unlock(&obj->vma.lock);
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> +static int
> >>>> +i915_gem_object_fits_in_aperture(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
> >>>> + u64 alignment, u64 flags)
> >>>
> >>> Tvrtko asked me to ack the first patch, but then I looked at this and
> >>> started wondering.
> >>>
> >>> Conceptually this doesn't pass the smell test. What if we have
> >>> multiple per-crtc buffers? Multiple planes on the same crtc? What if
> >>> the app does triple buffer? You'll be forever busy tuning this
> >>> heuristics, which can't fundamentally be fixed I think. The old "half
> >>> of mappable" heuristic isn't really better, but at least it was dead
> >>> simple.
> >>>
> >>> Imo what we need here is a change in approach:
> >>> 1. Check whether the useable view for scanout exists already. If yes,
> >>> use that. This should avoid the constant unbinding stalls.
> >>> 2. Try to in buffer to mappabley, but without evicting anything (so
> >>> not the non-blocking thing)
> >>> 3. Pin the buffer with the most lenient approach
> >>>
> >>> Even the non-blocking interim stage is dangerous, since it'll just
> >>> result in other buffers (e.g. when triple-buffering) getting unbound
> >>> and we're back to the same stall. Note that this could have an impact
> >>> on cpu rendering compositors, where we might end up relying a lot more
> >>> partial views. But as long as we are a tad more aggressive (i.e. the
> >>> non-blocking binding) in the mmap path that should work out to keep
> >>> everything balanced, since usually you render first before you display
> >>> anything. And so the buffer should end up in the ideal place.
> >>>
> >>> I'd try to first skip the 2. step since I think it'll require a bit of
> >>> work, and frankly I don't think we care about the potential fallout.
> >>
> >> To be sure I understand, you propose to stop trying to pin mappable by default. Ie. stop
> >> respecting this comment from i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane:
> >>
> >> /*
> >> * As the user may map the buffer once pinned in the display plane
> >> * (e.g. libkms for the bootup splash), we have to ensure that we
> >> * always use map_and_fenceable for all scanout buffers. However,
> >> * it may simply be too big to fit into mappable, in which case
> >> * put it anyway and hope that userspace can cope (but always first
> >> * try to preserve the existing ABI).
> >> */
> > [Kasireddy, Vivek] Digging further, this is what the commit message that added
> > the above comment says:
> > commit 2efb813d5388e18255c54afac77bd91acd586908
> > Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Date: Thu Aug 18 17:17:06 2016 +0100
> >
> > drm/i915: Fallback to using unmappable memory for scanout
> >
> > The existing ABI says that scanouts are pinned into the mappable region
> > so that legacy clients (e.g. old Xorg or plymouthd) can write directly
> > into the scanout through a GTT mapping. However if the surface does not
> > fit into the mappable region, we are better off just trying to fit it
> > anywhere and hoping for the best. (Any userspace that is capable of
> > using ginormous scanouts is also likely not to rely on pure GTT
> > updates.) With the partial vma fault support, we are no longer
> > restricted to only using scanouts that we can pin (though it is still
> > preferred for performance reasons and for powersaving features like
> > FBC).
> >
> >>
> >> By a quick look, for this case it appears we would end up creating partial views for
> CPU
> >> access (since the normal mapping would be busy/unpinnable). Worst case for this is to
> >> create a bunch of 1MiB VMAs so something to check would be how long those persist
> in
> >> memory before they get released. Or perhaps the bootup splash use case is not common
> >> these days?
> > [Kasireddy, Vivek] AFAIK, Plymouth is still the default bootup splash service on Fedora,
> > Ubuntu and most other distributions. And, I took a quick look at it and IIUC, it
> (Plymouth's
> > drm plugin) seems to create a dumb FB, mmap and update it via the dirty_fb ioctl. This
> > would not to be a problem on ADL-S where there is space in mappable for one 8K FB.
> >
>
> FBC is a good point - correct me if I am wrong, but if we dropped trying
> to map in aperture by default it looks like we would lose it and that
> would be a significant power regression. In which case it doesn't seem
> like that would be an option.
[Kasireddy, Vivek] Ok, makes sense.
>
> Which I think leaves us with _some_ heuristics in any case.
>
> 1) N-holes heuristics.
>
> 2) Don't ever try PIN_MAPPABLE for framebuffers larger than some
> percentage of aperture.
>
> Could this solve the 8k issue, most of the time, maybe? Could the
> current "aperture / 2" test be expressed generically in some terms? Like
> "(aperture - 10% (or some absolute value)) / 2" to account for non-fb
> objects? I forgot what you said the relationship between aperture size
> and 8k fb size was.
>
> 3) Don't evict for PIN_MAPPABLE mismatches when
> i915_gem_object_ggtt_pin_ww->i915_vma_misplaced is called on behalf of
> i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane. Assumption being if we ended up
> with a non-mappable fb to start with, we must not try to re-bind it or
> we risk ping-pong latencies.
>
> The last would I guess need to distinguish between PIN_MAPPABLE passed
> in versus opportunistically added by i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane.
>
> How intrusive would it be to implement this option I am not sure without
> trying myself.
[Kasireddy, Vivek] I suspect I might be missing something, but could it not be
as simple as below:
@@ -940,7 +940,8 @@ i915_gem_object_ggtt_pin_ww(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj,
return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
if (flags & PIN_MAPPABLE &&
- vma->fence_size > ggtt->mappable_end / 2)
+ (vma->fence_size > ggtt->mappable_end / 2 ||
+ !i915_vma_is_map_and_fenceable(vma)))
return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
}
>
> > Given this, do you think it would work if we just preserve the existing behavior and
> > tweak the heuristic introduced in this patch to look for space in aperture for only
> > one FB instead of two? Or, is there no good option for solving this issue other than
> > to create 1MB VMAs?
>
> I did not get how having one hole would solve the issue. Wouldn't it
> still hit the re-bind ping-pong? Or there isn't even a single hole for
> 8k fb typically?
[Kasireddy, Vivek] IIUC, Mesa gives Weston a max of 4 backbuffers but it
almost always uses only 2 except when it needs to share the FB -- with a plugin
such as "remoting" for desktop streaming.
Given the common use-case, lets assume there are two 8K FBs: FB1 and FB2
FB1 is mappable/fenceable and therefore not misplaced.
FB2 is NOT mappable and hence identified as misplaced
(because it fails the check
(flags & PIN_MAPPABLE && !i915_vma_is_map_and_fenceable(vma))
As you suggest in 3) above the goal is to ensure that FB2 does not get evicted
when we try to pin with PIN_MAPABBLE -- after it gets identified as misplaced.
Or, alternatively, when we pin with PIN_MAPABBLE, we could just check to
see if there is space in aperture for only FB2 (N = 1) and return early -- before
even getting to i915_vma_misplaced(). As you can see, we avoid the ping-pong
issue in both these cases.
The current version of this patch -- when running Weston -- puts both FB1
and FB2 (N = 2) outside of aperture although there may be space for FB1.
I don't think this makes sense anymore given Plymouth's single-buffer
use-case that uses dirtyfb ioctl.
Thanks,
Vivek
>
> Regards,
>
> Tvrtko
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