[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 4/4] OPTIONAL: anv/gen9: Optimize slice and subslice load balancing behavior.

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Sat Aug 10 12:31:51 UTC 2019


Let's hold this for at least a tiny bit. I'll run some benchmarks and may 
want to tweak how in interacts with the rest of the vulkan state tracking.  
Thanks for figuring out a heuristic!

--Jason

On August 9, 2019 19:22:48 Francisco Jerez <currojerez at riseup.net> wrote:

> See "i965/gen9: Optimize slice and subslice load balancing behavior."
> for the rationale.  Marked optional because no performance evaluation
> has been done on this commit, it is provided to match the hashing
> settings of the Iris driver.  Test reports welcome.
> ---
> src/intel/vulkan/anv_genX.h        |  4 ++
> src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h     |  6 ++
> src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c |  6 ++
> src/intel/vulkan/genX_cmd_buffer.c | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 112 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/intel/vulkan/anv_genX.h b/src/intel/vulkan/anv_genX.h
> index a5435e566a3..06c6b467acf 100644
> --- a/src/intel/vulkan/anv_genX.h
> +++ b/src/intel/vulkan/anv_genX.h
> @@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ void genX(cmd_buffer_apply_pipe_flushes)(struct 
> anv_cmd_buffer *cmd_buffer);
>
> void genX(cmd_buffer_emit_gen7_depth_flush)(struct anv_cmd_buffer *cmd_buffer);
>
> +void genX(cmd_buffer_emit_hashing_mode)(struct anv_cmd_buffer *cmd_buffer,
> +                                        unsigned width, unsigned height,
> +                                        unsigned scale);
> +
> void genX(flush_pipeline_select_3d)(struct anv_cmd_buffer *cmd_buffer);
> void genX(flush_pipeline_select_gpgpu)(struct anv_cmd_buffer *cmd_buffer);
>
> diff --git a/src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h b/src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h
> index 2465f264354..b381386a716 100644
> --- a/src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h
> +++ b/src/intel/vulkan/anv_private.h
> @@ -2421,6 +2421,12 @@ struct anv_cmd_state {
>
>    bool                                         conditional_render_enabled;
>
> +   /**
> +    * Last rendering scale argument provided to
> +    * genX(cmd_buffer_emit_hashing_mode)().
> +    */
> +   unsigned                                     current_hash_scale;
> +
>    /**
>     * Array length is anv_cmd_state::pass::attachment_count. Array content is
>     * valid only when recording a render pass instance.
> diff --git a/src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c 
> b/src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c
> index 1592e7f7e3d..e9eedc06696 100644
> --- a/src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c
> +++ b/src/intel/vulkan/genX_blorp_exec.c
> @@ -223,6 +223,12 @@ genX(blorp_exec)(struct blorp_batch *batch,
>       genX(cmd_buffer_config_l3)(cmd_buffer, cfg);
>    }
>
> +   const unsigned scale = params->fast_clear_op ? UINT_MAX : 1;
> +   if (cmd_buffer->state.current_hash_scale != scale) {
> +      genX(cmd_buffer_emit_hashing_mode)(cmd_buffer, params->x1 - params->x0,
> +                                         params->y1 - params->y0, scale);
> +   }
> +
> #if GEN_GEN >= 11
>    /* The PIPE_CONTROL command description says:
>     *
> diff --git a/src/intel/vulkan/genX_cmd_buffer.c 
> b/src/intel/vulkan/genX_cmd_buffer.c
> index 86ef1663ac4..e9e5570d49f 100644
> --- a/src/intel/vulkan/genX_cmd_buffer.c
> +++ b/src/intel/vulkan/genX_cmd_buffer.c
> @@ -1595,6 +1595,7 @@ genX(CmdExecuteCommands)(
>     */
>    primary->state.current_pipeline = UINT32_MAX;
>    primary->state.current_l3_config = NULL;
> +   primary->state.current_hash_scale = 0;
>
>    /* Each of the secondary command buffers will use its own state base
>     * address.  We need to re-emit state base address for the primary after
> @@ -2663,6 +2664,9 @@ genX(cmd_buffer_flush_state)(struct anv_cmd_buffer 
> *cmd_buffer)
>
>    genX(cmd_buffer_config_l3)(cmd_buffer, pipeline->urb.l3_config);
>
> +   if (cmd_buffer->state.current_hash_scale != 1)
> +      genX(cmd_buffer_emit_hashing_mode)(cmd_buffer, UINT_MAX, UINT_MAX, 1);
> +
>    genX(flush_pipeline_select_3d)(cmd_buffer);
>
>    if (vb_emit) {
> @@ -3925,6 +3929,98 @@ genX(cmd_buffer_emit_gen7_depth_flush)(struct 
> anv_cmd_buffer *cmd_buffer)
>    }
> }
>
> +/**
> + * Update the pixel hashing modes that determine the balancing of PS threads
> + * across subslices and slices.
> + *
> + * \param width Width bound of the rendering area (already scaled down if \p
> + *              scale is greater than 1).
> + * \param height Height bound of the rendering area (already scaled down if \p
> + *               scale is greater than 1).
> + * \param scale The number of framebuffer samples that could potentially be
> + *              affected by an individual channel of the PS thread.  This is
> + *              typically one for single-sampled rendering, but for operations
> + *              like CCS resolves and fast clears a single PS invocation may
> + *              update a huge number of pixels, in which case a finer
> + *              balancing is desirable in order to maximally utilize the
> + *              bandwidth available.  UINT_MAX can be used as shorthand for
> + *              "finest hashing mode available".
> + */
> +void
> +genX(cmd_buffer_emit_hashing_mode)(struct anv_cmd_buffer *cmd_buffer,
> +                                   unsigned width, unsigned height,
> +                                   unsigned scale)
> +{
> +#if GEN_GEN == 9
> +   const struct gen_device_info *devinfo = &cmd_buffer->device->info;
> +   const unsigned slice_hashing[] = {
> +      /* Because all Gen9 platforms with more than one slice require
> +       * three-way subslice hashing, a single "normal" 16x16 slice hashing
> +       * block is guaranteed to suffer from substantial imbalance, with one
> +       * subslice receiving twice as much work as the other two in the
> +       * slice.
> +       *
> +       * The performance impact of that would be particularly severe when
> +       * three-way hashing is also in use for slice balancing (which is the
> +       * case for all Gen9 GT4 platforms), because one of the slices
> +       * receives one every three 16x16 blocks in either direction, which
> +       * is roughly the periodicity of the underlying subslice imbalance
> +       * pattern ("roughly" because in reality the hardware's
> +       * implementation of three-way hashing doesn't do exact modulo 3
> +       * arithmetic, which somewhat decreases the magnitude of this effect
> +       * in practice).  This leads to a systematic subslice imbalance
> +       * within that slice regardless of the size of the primitive.  The
> +       * 32x32 hashing mode guarantees that the subslice imbalance within a
> +       * single slice hashing block is minimal, largely eliminating this
> +       * effect.
> +       */
> +      _32x32,
> +      /* Finest slice hashing mode available. */
> +      NORMAL
> +   };
> +   const unsigned subslice_hashing[] = {
> +      /* 16x16 would provide a slight cache locality benefit especially
> +       * visible in the sampler L1 cache efficiency of low-bandwidth
> +       * non-LLC platforms, but it comes at the cost of greater subslice
> +       * imbalance for primitives of dimensions approximately intermediate
> +       * between 16x4 and 16x16.
> +       */
> +      _16x4,
> +      /* Finest subslice hashing mode available. */
> +      _8x4
> +   };
> +   /* Dimensions of the smallest hashing block of a given hashing mode.  If
> +    * the rendering area is smaller than this there can't possibly be any
> +    * benefit from switching to this mode, so we optimize out the
> +    * transition.
> +    */
> +   const unsigned min_size[][2] = {
> +         { 16, 4 },
> +         { 8, 4 }
> +   };
> +   const unsigned idx = scale > 1;
> +
> +   if (width > min_size[idx][0] || height > min_size[idx][1]) {
> +      uint32_t gt_mode;
> +
> +      anv_pack_struct(&gt_mode, GENX(GT_MODE),
> +                      .SliceHashing = (devinfo->num_slices > 1 ? 
> slice_hashing[idx] : 0),
> +                      .SliceHashingMask = (devinfo->num_slices > 1 ? -1 : 0),
> +                      .SubsliceHashing = subslice_hashing[idx],
> +                      .SubsliceHashingMask = -1);
> +
> +      anv_batch_emit(&cmd_buffer->batch, GENX(PIPE_CONTROL), pc) {
> +         pc.StallAtPixelScoreboard = true;
> +         pc.CommandStreamerStallEnable = true;
> +      }
> +
> +      emit_lri(&cmd_buffer->batch, GENX(GT_MODE_num), gt_mode);
> +
> +      cmd_buffer->state.current_hash_scale = scale;
> +   }
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> static void
> cmd_buffer_emit_depth_stencil(struct anv_cmd_buffer *cmd_buffer)
> {
> --
> 2.22.0
>
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