[Intel-xe] [PATCH v2] drm/xe: Infer service copy functionality from engine list

Balasubramani Vivekanandan balasubramani.vivekanandan at intel.com
Fri Sep 29 06:18:21 UTC 2023


On 27.09.2023 13:51, Matt Roper wrote:
> On platforms with multiple BCS engines (i.e., PVC and Xe2), not all BCS
> engines are created equal.  The BCS0 engine is what the specs refer to
> as a "resource copy engine," which supports the platform's full set of
> copy/fill instructions.  In contast, the non-BCS0 engines are more
> streamlined and only support a subset of the GPU instructions supported
> by the resource copy engine.  Platforms with both types of copy engines
> always support the MEM_COPY and MEM_SET instructions which can be used
> for simple copy and fill operations on either type of BCS engine.  Since
> the simple MEM_SET instruction meets the needs of Xe's migrate code (and
> since the more elaborate XY_FAST_COLOR_BLT instruction isn't available
> to use on service copy engines), we always prefer to use MEM_SET for
> clearing buffers on our newer platforms.
> 
> We've been using a 'has_link_copy_engine' feature flag to keep track of
> which platforms should use MEM_SET for fills.  However a feature flag
> like this is unnecessary since we can already derive the presence of
> service copy engines (and in turn the MEM_SET instruction) just by
> looking at the platform's pre-fusing engine list.  Utilizing the engine
> list for this also avoids mistakes like we've made on Xe2 where we
> forget to set the feature flag in the IP definition.
> 
> For clarity, "service copy" is a general term that covers any blitter
> engines that support a limited subset of the overall blitter instruction
> set (in practice this is any non-BCS0 blitter engine).  The "link copy
> engines" introduced on PVC and the "paging copy engine" present in Xe2
> are both instances of service copy engines.

Thanks for updating the commit message.

Reviewed-by: Balasubramani Vivekanandan <balasubramani.vivekanandan at intel.com>

Regards,
Bala

> 
> v2:
>  - Rewrite / expand the commit message.  (Bala)
>  - Fix checkpatch whitespace error.
> 
> Bspec: 65019
> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>
> Cc: Balasubramani Vivekanandan <balasubramani.vivekanandan at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Haridhar Kalvala <haridhar.kalvala at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device_types.h |  2 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c      | 34 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci.c          |  2 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci_types.h    |  1 -
>  4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device_types.h
> index 32ab0fea04ee..2d20bcbe8d9b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device_types.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device_types.h
> @@ -234,8 +234,6 @@ struct xe_device {
>  		u8 has_llc:1;
>  		/** @has_range_tlb_invalidation: Has range based TLB invalidations */
>  		u8 has_range_tlb_invalidation:1;
> -		/** @has_link_copy_engines: Whether the platform has link copy engines */
> -		u8 has_link_copy_engine:1;
>  		/** @enable_display: display enabled */
>  		u8 enable_display:1;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c
> index 9438f609d18b..3cf7412c79aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c
> @@ -854,28 +854,36 @@ static void emit_clear_main_copy(struct xe_gt *gt, struct xe_bb *bb,
>  	bb->len += len;
>  }
>  
> -static u32 emit_clear_cmd_len(struct xe_device *xe)
> +static bool has_service_copy_support(struct xe_gt *gt)
>  {
> -	if (xe->info.has_link_copy_engine)
> +	/*
> +	 * What we care about is whether the architecture was designed with
> +	 * service copy functionality (specifically the new MEM_SET / MEM_COPY
> +	 * instructions) so check the architectural engine list rather than the
> +	 * actual list since these instructions are usable on BCS0 even if
> +	 * all of the actual service copy engines (BCS1-BCS8) have been fused
> +	 * off.
> +	 */
> +	return gt->info.__engine_mask & GENMASK(XE_HW_ENGINE_BCS8,
> +						XE_HW_ENGINE_BCS1);
> +}
> +
> +static u32 emit_clear_cmd_len(struct xe_gt *gt)
> +{
> +	if (has_service_copy_support(gt))
>  		return PVC_MEM_SET_CMD_LEN_DW;
>  	else
>  		return XY_FAST_COLOR_BLT_DW;
>  }
>  
> -static int emit_clear(struct xe_gt *gt, struct xe_bb *bb, u64 src_ofs,
> -		      u32 size, u32 pitch, bool is_vram)
> +static void emit_clear(struct xe_gt *gt, struct xe_bb *bb, u64 src_ofs,
> +		       u32 size, u32 pitch, bool is_vram)
>  {
> -	struct xe_device *xe = gt_to_xe(gt);
> -
> -	if (xe->info.has_link_copy_engine) {
> +	if (has_service_copy_support(gt))
>  		emit_clear_link_copy(gt, bb, src_ofs, size, pitch);
> -
> -	} else {
> +	else
>  		emit_clear_main_copy(gt, bb, src_ofs, size, pitch,
>  				     is_vram);
> -	}
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -928,7 +936,7 @@ struct dma_fence *xe_migrate_clear(struct xe_migrate *m,
>  		batch_size = 2 +
>  			pte_update_size(m, clear_vram, src, &src_it,
>  					&clear_L0, &clear_L0_ofs, &clear_L0_pt,
> -					emit_clear_cmd_len(xe), 0,
> +					emit_clear_cmd_len(gt), 0,
>  					NUM_PT_PER_BLIT);
>  		if (xe_device_has_flat_ccs(xe) && clear_vram)
>  			batch_size += EMIT_COPY_CCS_DW;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci.c
> index a11163b89a3f..0da752b3c9cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci.c
> @@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ static const struct xe_graphics_desc graphics_xehpc = {
>  
>  	.has_asid = 1,
>  	.has_flat_ccs = 0,
> -	.has_link_copy_engine = 1,
>  	.supports_usm = 1,
>  };
>  
> @@ -574,7 +573,6 @@ static int xe_info_init(struct xe_device *xe,
>  	xe->info.has_asid = graphics_desc->has_asid;
>  	xe->info.has_flat_ccs = graphics_desc->has_flat_ccs;
>  	xe->info.has_range_tlb_invalidation = graphics_desc->has_range_tlb_invalidation;
> -	xe->info.has_link_copy_engine = graphics_desc->has_link_copy_engine;
>  
>  	xe->info.enable_display = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DRM_XE_DISPLAY) &&
>  				  enable_display &&
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci_types.h
> index df6ddbc52d7f..bd0b0d87413e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci_types.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pci_types.h
> @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ struct xe_graphics_desc {
>  
>  	u8 has_asid:1;
>  	u8 has_flat_ccs:1;
> -	u8 has_link_copy_engine:1;
>  	u8 has_range_tlb_invalidation:1;
>  	u8 supports_usm:1;
>  };
> -- 
> 2.41.0
> 


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