[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] asynchronous pbo transfer with glthread

Dieter Nützel Dieter at nuetzel-hh.de
Fri Apr 14 22:50:15 UTC 2017


Am 14.04.2017 07:53, schrieb gregory hainaut:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2017 05:20:38 +0200
> Dieter Nützel <Dieter at nuetzel-hh.de> wrote:
> 
>> Am 14.04.2017 02:06, schrieb Dieter Nützel:
>> > Hello Gregory,
>> >
>> > have you tested this with Mesa-demos/tests/pbo 'b' (benchmark)?
>> > It result in crazy numbers and do not 'return' (one core stays @ 100%).
>> 
>> This is related to 'mesa_glthread=true'.
>> If I disable (unset) it, all is fine after 'b' benchmark and 'pbo' 
>> exit
>> with ESC as expeted.
>> Crazy numbers stay, maybe counter overrun due to BIG numbers? ;-)
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>> Dieter
> 
> Hello Dieter,
> 
> I tested the demo. There is a pseudo unrelated bug on the exit of the
> application.
> 
> Mesa 17.1.0-devel implementation error: In _mesa_DeleteHashTable,
> found non-freed data
> 
> I will add a call to a _mesa_HashDeleteAll to fix it.
> i.e. _mesa_HashDeleteAll(shared->ShadowBufferObjects, dummy_cb, ctx);
> 
> Now let's go back to the test behavior. The benchmarks will send 4s of
> asynchronous PBO transfer commands. And then will sync gl_thread which
> mean the application thread will be blocked until all PBO transfers are
> done. Gl_thread is faster to dispatch command so you will need to wait
> more before the thread goes back to real life.
> 
> On my side, I need to wait around 45 seconds for 6 millions of 
> commands.
> Result:  6,440,627 reads (gl thread on + PBO patches)
> Result:    274,960 reads (gl thread off)
> 
> In your case, "Result:  77,444,412 reads", I hope you're patient.
> I think you must wait at least 10 minutes.

Now, I was patient...
Tried 2 times but after ~20 minutes I've killed it at first and attached 
gdb at it during second run.

0x00007fbda686e9a6 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from 
/lib64/libpthread.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007fbda686e9a6 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from 
/lib64/libpthread.so.0
#1  0x00007fbda5359453 in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/dri/r600_dri.so
#2  0x00007fbda53661f4 in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/dri/r600_dri.so
#3  0x0000000000401e18 in ?? ()
#4  0x00000000004028c7 in ?? ()
#5  0x00007fbda9925781 in fghRedrawWindow () from 
/usr/lib64/libglut.so.3
#6  0x00007fbda9925c08 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libglut.so.3
#7  0x00007fbda9926cf9 in fgEnumWindows () from /usr/lib64/libglut.so.3
#8  0x00007fbda9925ce4 in glutMainLoopEvent () from 
/usr/lib64/libglut.so.3
#9  0x00007fbda9925d85 in glutMainLoop () from /usr/lib64/libglut.so.3
#10 0x00000000004019fc in ?? ()
#11 0x00007fbda957e541 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#12 0x0000000000401afa in ?? ()

Should I do more or not worth it?

Dieter

>> > mesa-demos/tests> ./pbo
>> > ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by
>> > environment.
>> > GL_VERSION = 4.1 Mesa 17.1.0-devel (git-7c8fe31e1c)
>> > GL_RENDERER = Gallium 0.4 on AMD TURKS (DRM 2.49.0 /
>> > 4.11.0-rc6-1.g5a51416-default, LLVM 5.0.0)
>> > Loaded 194 by 188 image
>> > Converting RGB image to RGBA
>> > Benchmarking...
>> > Result:  77444412 reads in 4.000000 seconds = -383971576.000000
>> > pixels/sec
>> >
>> > top - 02:04:42 up 10:05,  4 users,  load average: 1,03, 0,77, 0,71
>> > Tasks: 265 total,   1 running, 264 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> > %Cpu0  :  1,3 us,  0,3 sy,  0,0 ni, 98,3 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,
>> >  0,0 st
>> > %Cpu1  :  1,3 us,  0,3 sy,  0,0 ni, 98,3 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,
>> >  0,0 st
>> > %Cpu2  :  1,7 us,  0,0 sy,  0,0 ni, 98,3 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,
>> >  0,0 st
>> > %Cpu3  :  2,3 us,  0,3 sy,  0,0 ni, 97,3 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,
>> >  0,0 st
>> > %Cpu4  :  1,7 us,  0,3 sy,  0,0 ni, 98,0 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,
>> >  0,0 st
>> > %Cpu5  : 98,3 us,  1,7 sy,  0,0 ni,  0,0 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,
>> >  0,0 st
>> > %Cpu6  :  2,0 us,  0,3 sy,  0,0 ni, 97,7 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,
>> >  0,0 st
>> > %Cpu7  :  1,7 us,  0,0 sy,  0,0 ni, 98,3 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,
>> >  0,0 st
>> > KiB Mem : 24680300 total,  8155356 free,  5751864 used, 10773080
>> > buff/cache
>> > KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 free,        0 used. 18437888 avail
>> > Mem
>> >
>> >   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+
>> > COMMAND
>> > 19380 dieter    20   0 3259764 2,911g  22472 S 100,3 12,37   2:28.48
>> > pbo
>> > 27937 dieter    20   0 4029572 570236 166116 S 5,980 2,310   9:45.53
>> > konqueror
>> > 13432 dieter    20   0 1922820 269892 129152 S 5,648 1,094   4:33.80
>> > Web Content
>> >
>> > Other than that:
>> >
>> > For the series:
>> >
>> > Tested-by: Dieter Nützel <Dieter at nuetzel-hh.de>
>> > r600g, Turks XT (6670)
>> >
>> > Dieter
>> >
>> > Am 13.04.2017 19:32, schrieb Gregory Hainaut:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> Please find a new version to handle invalid buffer handles.
>> >>
>> >> Allow to handle this kind of case:
>> >>    genBuffer(&pbo);
>> >>    BindBuffer(pbo)
>> >>    DeleteBuffer(pbo);
>> >>    BindBuffer(rand_pbo)
>> >>    TexSubImage2D(user_memory_pointer); // Data transfer will be
>> >> synchronous
>> >>
>> >> There are various subtely to handle multi threaded shared context. In
>> >> order to
>> >> keep the code sane, I've considered a buffer invalid when it is
>> >> deleted by a
>> >> context even it is still bound to others contexts. It will force a
>> >> synchronous
>> >> transfer which is always safe.
>> >>
>> >> An example could be
>> >>    Ctx A: glGenBuffers(1, &pbo);
>> >>    Ctx A: glBindBuffer(PIXEL_UNPACK_BUFFER, pbo);
>> >>    Ctx B: glDeleteBuffers(1, &pbo);
>> >>    Ctx A: glTexSubImage2D(...); // will be synchronous, even though it
>> >>    _could_ be asynchronous (because the PBO that was generated first
>> >> is
>> >>    still bound!)
>> >>
>> >> V3: I mixed up the number so I jumped right away to v4...
>> >> V4: improve commments based on Nicolai feedback
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
>> >>
>> >> Gregory Hainaut (3):
>> >>   mesa/glthread: track buffer creation/destruction
>> >>   mesa/glthread: add tracking of PBO binding
>> >>   mapi/glthread: generate asynchronous code for PBO transfer
>> >>
>> >>  src/mapi/glapi/gen/ARB_direct_state_access.xml |  18 +--
>> >>  src/mapi/glapi/gen/ARB_robustness.xml          |   2 +-
>> >>  src/mapi/glapi/gen/gl_API.dtd                  |  10 +-
>> >>  src/mapi/glapi/gen/gl_API.xml                  |  32 +++---
>> >>  src/mapi/glapi/gen/gl_marshal.py               |  23 +++-
>> >>  src/mapi/glapi/gen/marshal_XML.py              |  21 +++-
>> >>  src/mesa/main/glthread.h                       |  10 ++
>> >>  src/mesa/main/marshal.c                        | 149
>> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> >>  src/mesa/main/marshal.h                        |  24 ++++
>> >>  src/mesa/main/mtypes.h                         |   5 +
>> >>  src/mesa/main/shared.c                         |   4 +
>> >>  11 files changed, 259 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
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