[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 7/8] radeonsi: always put persistent buffers into GTT on radeon

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Marek Olšák (2018-06-08 20:16:54)
> From: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
> 
> This improves performance for certain games.
> 
> Cc: 18.1 <mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org>
> ---
>  src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_buffer.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_buffer.c b/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_buffer.c
> index 2d68edc3404..0546fa9d336 100644
> --- a/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_buffer.c
> +++ b/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_buffer.c
> @@ -144,22 +144,26 @@ void si_init_resource_fields(struct si_screen *sscreen,
>         if (res->b.b.target == PIPE_BUFFER &&
>             res->b.b.flags & (PIPE_RESOURCE_FLAG_MAP_PERSISTENT |
>                               PIPE_RESOURCE_FLAG_MAP_COHERENT)) {
>                 /* Use GTT for all persistent mappings with older
>                  * kernels, because they didn't always flush the HDP
>                  * cache before CS execution.
>                  *
>                  * Write-combined CPU mappings are fine, the kernel
>                  * ensures all CPU writes finish before the GPU
>                  * executes a command stream.
> +                *
> +                * radeon doesn't have good BO move throttling, so put all
> +                * persistent buffers into GTT to prevent VRAM CPU page faults.
>                  */
> -               if (!sscreen->info.kernel_flushes_hdp_before_ib)
> +               if (!sscreen->info.kernel_flushes_hdp_before_ib ||
> +                   sscreen->info.drm_major == 2)
>                         res->domains = RADEON_DOMAIN_GTT;
>         }
>  
>         /* Tiled textures are unmappable. Always put them in VRAM. */
>         if ((res->b.b.target != PIPE_BUFFER && !rtex->surface.is_linear) ||
>             res->b.b.flags & SI_RESOURCE_FLAG_UNMAPPABLE) {
>                 res->domains = RADEON_DOMAIN_VRAM;
>                 res->flags |= RADEON_FLAG_NO_CPU_ACCESS |
>                          RADEON_FLAG_GTT_WC;
>         }
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
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Hi Marek,

This doesn't apply cleanly to 18.1, since
b81149e258a492ed0c81058fb535f6bfdacb36da isn't in 18.1; would you like me to
pull that commit as well, or do something else?

Dylan
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