[RFC PATCH V3] drm/xe/guc: Use exec queue hints for GT frequency

Upadhyay, Tejas tejas.upadhyay at intel.com
Mon Jan 20 06:52:00 UTC 2025



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Souza, Jose <jose.souza at intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 12:22 AM
> To: intel-xe at lists.freedesktop.org; Upadhyay, Tejas
> <tejas.upadhyay at intel.com>
> Cc: Nilawar, Badal <badal.nilawar at intel.com>; De Marchi, Lucas
> <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>; Belgaumkar, Vinay
> <vinay.belgaumkar at intel.com>; Mrozek, Michal <michal.mrozek at intel.com>;
> Morek, Szymon <szymon.morek at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V3] drm/xe/guc: Use exec queue hints for GT
> frequency
> 
> On Fri, 2025-01-10 at 20:11 +0530, Tejas Upadhyay wrote:
> > Allow user to provide a low latency hint per exec queue. When set, KMD
> > sends a hint to GuC which results in special handling for this exec
> > queue. SLPC will ramp the GT frequency aggressively every time it
> > switches to this exec queue.
> >
> > We need to enable the use of SLPC Compute strategy during init, but it
> > will apply only to exec queues that set this bit during exec queue
> > creation.
> >
> > Improvement with this approach as below:
> >
> > Before,
> >
> > :~$ NEOReadDebugKeys=1 EnableDirectSubmission=0 clpeak
> > --kernel-latency
> > Platform: Intel(R) OpenCL Graphics
> >   Device: Intel(R) Graphics [0xe20b]
> >     Driver version  : 24.52.0 (Linux x64)
> >     Compute units   : 160
> >     Clock frequency : 2850 MHz
> >     Kernel launch latency : 283.16 us
> >
> > After,
> >
> > :~$ NEOReadDebugKeys=1 EnableDirectSubmission=0 clpeak
> > --kernel-latency
> > Platform: Intel(R) OpenCL Graphics
> >   Device: Intel(R) Graphics [0xe20b]
> >     Driver version  : 24.52.0 (Linux x64)
> >     Compute units   : 160
> >     Clock frequency : 2850 MHz
> >
> >     Kernel launch latency : 63.38 us
> >
> > UMD will indicate low latency hint with flag as mentioned below,
> >
> > *     struct drm_xe_exec_queue_create exec_queue_create = {
> > *          .flags = DRM_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_LOW_LATENCY_HINT or 0
> > *          .extensions = 0,
> > *          .vm_id = vm,
> > *          .num_bb_per_exec = 1,
> > *          .num_eng_per_bb = 1,
> > *          .instances = to_user_pointer(&instance),
> > *     };
> > *     ioctl(fd, DRM_IOCTL_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_CREATE, &exec_queue_create);
> >
> > Link to UMD PR : https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/pull/794
> >
> > Note: There is outstanding issue on guc side to be not able to switch
> > to max frequency as per strategy indicated by KMD, so for
> > experminet/test result hardcoding apporch was taken and passed to guc
> > as policy. Effort on debugging from guc side is going on in parallel.
> >
> > V3:
> >   - Conver user flag to kernel internal flag and use (Oak)
> >   - Support query config for use to check kernel support (Jose)
> >   - Dont need to take runtime pm (Vinay)
> > V2:
> >   - DRM_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_LOW_LATENCY_HINT 1 is already planned for
> other hint(Szymon)
> >   - Add motivation to description (Lucas)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tejas Upadhyay <tejas.upadhyay at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h |  3 +++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c            | 11 ++++++++---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue_types.h      |  3 ++-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_pc.c                | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_submit.c            |  7 +++++++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c                 |  3 ++-
> >  include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h                     |  6 +++++-
> >  7 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h
> > index 85abe4f09ae2..c50075b8270f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h
> > @@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ struct slpc_task_state_data {
> >  	};
> >  } __packed;
> >
> > +#define SLPC_EXEC_QUEUE_FREQ_REQ_IS_COMPUTE	REG_BIT(28)
> > +#define SLPC_OPTIMIZED_STRATEGY_COMPUTE		REG_BIT(0)
> > +
> >  struct slpc_shared_data_header {
> >  	/* Total size in bytes of this shared buffer. */
> >  	u32 size;
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
> > index 8948f50ee58f..bd33fb318677 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
> > @@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ int xe_exec_queue_create_ioctl(struct drm_device
> *dev, void *data,
> >  	struct drm_xe_engine_class_instance __user *user_eci =
> >  		u64_to_user_ptr(args->instances);
> >  	struct xe_hw_engine *hwe;
> > +	unsigned long flags;
> >  	struct xe_vm *vm;
> >  	struct xe_gt *gt;
> >  	struct xe_tile *tile;
> > @@ -553,7 +554,8 @@ int xe_exec_queue_create_ioctl(struct drm_device
> *dev, void *data,
> >  	u32 len;
> >  	int err;
> >
> > -	if (XE_IOCTL_DBG(xe, args->flags) ||
> > +	if (XE_IOCTL_DBG(xe, args->flags &&
> > +			 !(args->flags &
> DRM_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_LOW_LATENCY_HINT)) ||
> >  	    XE_IOCTL_DBG(xe, args->reserved[0] || args->reserved[1]))
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >
> > @@ -570,6 +572,9 @@ int xe_exec_queue_create_ioctl(struct drm_device
> *dev, void *data,
> >  	if (XE_IOCTL_DBG(xe, eci[0].gt_id >= xe->info.gt_count))
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >
> > +	if (args->flags & DRM_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_LOW_LATENCY_HINT)
> > +		flags |= EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_LOW_LATENCY;
> > +
> >  	if (eci[0].engine_class == DRM_XE_ENGINE_CLASS_VM_BIND) {
> >  		if (XE_IOCTL_DBG(xe, args->width != 1) ||
> >  		    XE_IOCTL_DBG(xe, args->num_placements != 1) || @@ -
> 578,8 +583,8
> > @@ int xe_exec_queue_create_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
> >
> >  		for_each_tile(tile, xe, id) {
> >  			struct xe_exec_queue *new;
> > -			u32 flags = EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_VM;
> >
> > +			flags |= EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_VM;
> >  			if (id)
> >  				flags |=
> EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_BIND_ENGINE_CHILD;
> >
> > @@ -626,7 +631,7 @@ int xe_exec_queue_create_ioctl(struct drm_device
> *dev, void *data,
> >  		}
> >
> >  		q = xe_exec_queue_create(xe, vm, logical_mask,
> > -					 args->width, hwe, 0,
> > +					 args->width, hwe, flags,
> >  					 args->extensions);
> >  		up_read(&vm->lock);
> >  		xe_vm_put(vm);
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue_types.h
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue_types.h
> > index 5af5419cec7a..30dc129a6b09 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue_types.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue_types.h
> > @@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ struct xe_exec_queue {
> >  #define EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_BIND_ENGINE_CHILD	BIT(3)
> >  /* kernel exec_queue only, set priority to highest level */
> >  #define EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_HIGH_PRIORITY		BIT(4)
> > -
> > +/* flag to indicate low latency hint to guc */
> > +#define EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_LOW_LATENCY		BIT(5)
> >  	/**
> >  	 * @flags: flags for this exec queue, should statically setup aside from
> ban
> >  	 * bit
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_pc.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_pc.c index df7f130fb663..4efa3485fffc
> > 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_pc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_pc.c
> > @@ -992,6 +992,17 @@ static int pc_init_freqs(struct xe_guc_pc *pc)
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> >
> > +static int xe_guc_pc_set_strategy(struct xe_guc_pc *pc, u32 val) {
> > +	int ret = 0;
> > +
> > +	ret = pc_action_set_param(pc,
> > +				  SLPC_PARAM_STRATEGIES,
> > +				  val);
> > +
> > +	return ret;
> > +}
> > +
> >  /**
> >   * xe_guc_pc_start - Start GuC's Power Conservation component
> >   * @pc: Xe_GuC_PC instance
> > @@ -1051,6 +1062,11 @@ int xe_guc_pc_start(struct xe_guc_pc *pc)
> >  	}
> >
> >  	ret = pc_action_setup_gucrc(pc, GUCRC_FIRMWARE_CONTROL);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		goto out;
> > +
> > +	/* Enable SLPC Optimized Strategy for compute */
> > +	ret = xe_guc_pc_set_strategy(pc,
> SLPC_OPTIMIZED_STRATEGY_COMPUTE);
> >
> >  out:
> >  	xe_force_wake_put(gt_to_fw(gt), fw_ref); diff --git
> > a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_submit.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_submit.c
> > index 913c74d6e2ae..4c8f69427421 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_submit.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_submit.c
> > @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
> >  #include <drm/drm_managed.h>
> >
> >  #include "abi/guc_actions_abi.h"
> > +#include "abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h"
> >  #include "abi/guc_klvs_abi.h"
> >  #include "regs/xe_lrc_layout.h"
> >  #include "xe_assert.h"
> > @@ -400,6 +401,7 @@ static void
> > __guc_exec_queue_policy_add_##func(struct exec_queue_policy *policy,
> > MAKE_EXEC_QUEUE_POLICY_ADD(execution_quantum,
> EXECUTION_QUANTUM)
> > MAKE_EXEC_QUEUE_POLICY_ADD(preemption_timeout,
> PREEMPTION_TIMEOUT)
> > MAKE_EXEC_QUEUE_POLICY_ADD(priority, SCHEDULING_PRIORITY)
> > +MAKE_EXEC_QUEUE_POLICY_ADD(slpc_ctx_freq_req,
> SLPM_GT_FREQUENCY)
> >  #undef MAKE_EXEC_QUEUE_POLICY_ADD
> >
> >  static const int xe_exec_queue_prio_to_guc[] = { @@ -414,14 +416,19
> > @@ static void init_policies(struct xe_guc *guc, struct xe_exec_queue *q)
> >  	struct exec_queue_policy policy;
> >  	enum xe_exec_queue_priority prio = q->sched_props.priority;
> >  	u32 timeslice_us = q->sched_props.timeslice_us;
> > +	u32 slpc_ctx_freq_req = 0;
> >  	u32 preempt_timeout_us = q->sched_props.preempt_timeout_us;
> >
> >  	xe_gt_assert(guc_to_gt(guc), exec_queue_registered(q));
> >
> > +	if (q->flags & EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_LOW_LATENCY)
> > +		slpc_ctx_freq_req |=
> SLPC_EXEC_QUEUE_FREQ_REQ_IS_COMPUTE;
> > +
> >  	__guc_exec_queue_policy_start_klv(&policy, q->guc->id);
> >  	__guc_exec_queue_policy_add_priority(&policy,
> xe_exec_queue_prio_to_guc[prio]);
> >  	__guc_exec_queue_policy_add_execution_quantum(&policy,
> timeslice_us);
> >  	__guc_exec_queue_policy_add_preemption_timeout(&policy,
> > preempt_timeout_us);
> > +	__guc_exec_queue_policy_add_slpc_ctx_freq_req(&policy,
> > +slpc_ctx_freq_req);
> >
> >  	xe_guc_ct_send(&guc->ct, (u32 *)&policy.h2g,
> >  		       __guc_exec_queue_policy_action_size(&policy), 0, 0); diff
> > --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c
> > index c059639613f7..aeea017198f2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c
> > @@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ static int query_config(struct xe_device *xe, struct
> drm_xe_device_query *query)
> >  		xe->info.devid | (xe->info.revid << 16);
> >  	if (xe_device_get_root_tile(xe)->mem.vram.usable_size)
> >  		config->info[DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAGS] =
> > -			DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAG_HAS_VRAM;
> > +			DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAG_HAS_VRAM |
> > +
> 	DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAG_EQUEUE_HAS_LOW_LATENCY;
> >  	config->info[DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_MIN_ALIGNMENT] =
> >  		xe->info.vram_flags & XE_VRAM_FLAGS_NEED64K ? SZ_64K :
> SZ_4K;
> >  	config->info[DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_VA_BITS] = xe->info.va_bits;
> diff
> > --git a/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h index
> > f62689ca861a..fd8755f7de78 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h
> > @@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ struct drm_xe_query_mem_regions {
> >   *
> >   *    - %DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAG_HAS_VRAM - Flag is set if the device
> >   *      has usable VRAM
> > + *    - %DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAG_HAS_VRAM - Flag is set if the
> device
> > + *      has usable VRAM
> 
> probably the intention was not to duplicate
> DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAG_HAS_VRAM comment
> 
> >   *  - %DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_MIN_ALIGNMENT - Minimal memory
> alignment
> >   *    required by this device, typically SZ_4K or SZ_64K
> >   *  - %DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_VA_BITS - Maximum bits of a virtual
> > address @@ -409,6 +411,7 @@ struct drm_xe_query_config {
> >  #define DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_REV_AND_DEVICE_ID	0
> >  #define DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAGS			1
> >  	#define DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAG_HAS_VRAM	(1 << 0)
> > +	#define
> DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_FLAG_EQUEUE_HAS_LOW_LATENCY	(1 << 1)
> 
> *E*QUEUE
> 
> >  #define DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_MIN_ALIGNMENT		2
> >  #define DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_VA_BITS			3
> >  #define DRM_XE_QUERY_CONFIG_MAX_EXEC_QUEUE_PRIORITY	4
> > @@ -1097,6 +1100,7 @@ struct drm_xe_vm_bind {
> >   *         .engine_class = DRM_XE_ENGINE_CLASS_RENDER,
> >   *     };
> >   *     struct drm_xe_exec_queue_create exec_queue_create = {
> > + *          .flags = DRM_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_LOW_LATENCY_HINT or 0
> >   *          .extensions = 0,
> >   *          .vm_id = vm,
> >   *          .num_bb_per_exec = 1,
> > @@ -1110,7 +1114,6 @@ struct drm_xe_exec_queue_create {
> >  #define DRM_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_EXTENSION_SET_PROPERTY		0
> >  #define   DRM_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_SET_PROPERTY_PRIORITY		0
> >  #define   DRM_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_SET_PROPERTY_TIMESLICE		1
> > -
> >  	/** @extensions: Pointer to the first extension struct, if any */
> >  	__u64 extensions;
> >
> > @@ -1123,6 +1126,7 @@ struct drm_xe_exec_queue_create {
> >  	/** @vm_id: VM to use for this exec queue */
> >  	__u32 vm_id;
> >
> > +#define DRM_XE_EXEC_QUEUE_LOW_LATENCY_HINT	(0x1 << 1)
> 
> follow the other bits and drop the '0x' also it needs to start on 0, so it should
> be (1 << 0)

Thanks for pointing this out, @Morek, Szymon I hope you are ok starting with 0. Initially it was added as 1 << 0 only but there was comment that some internal platform is using 0 for some other flag so moved to 1. But yes for upstream it is first flag so should start with 0.

> 
> >  	/** @flags: MBZ */
> 
> remove the mbz

Sure

Thanks,
Tejas

> 
> >  	__u32 flags;
> >



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