[Mesa-dev] Merging virtio-gpu vulkan driver

[Dave Airlie]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 03:22, Chia-I Wu <olvaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> We are looking to merge virtio-gpu vulkan driver
>
>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/5800
>
> On the good side, the driver is conformant with Vulkan 1.2 (vtest) and
> Vulkan 1.1 (virtio-gpu).  I only tried it on a handful of games (e.g.,
> Dota 2, Hades on Proton with D3D and Vulkan backends, and some
> others), but it appeared to work with reasonable framerates.  I was
> told that it works with other games as well.
>
> I tried Basemark GPU a month ago on a Core i7-7820HQ.  The fps numbers were
>
>   quality highend: native 17.07, vtest 16.83, virtio-gpu 16.65
>   quality medium: native 98.19, vtest 91.15, virtio-gpu 92.29
>   quality simple: native 327.52, vtest 317.17, virtio-gpu 283.02
>
> On the bad side, the driver requires
>
>   VIRTIO_GPU_F_RESOURCE_BLOB (kernel 5.11 but not supported by qemu)
>   VIRTIO_GPU_F_CONTEXT_INIT (to be upstreamed[1])
>
> As a result, it can only be tested with crosvm[2] or vtest[3].
>

I've no major objections to merging this in an experimental state, not
having qemu support is of course an annoyance but at some point I
suppose that bridge will have to be crossed.

My main worry with no qemu support is locking in crosvm specific
behaviours that we later can't get back out of.

> We develop using anv as the host driver mostly.  Simple samples work
> when the host driver is radv, but games hit a host KVM bug quickly.
> The issue has been reported and we expect it to be fixed by upstream.
>
> The protocol for Vulkan command serialization is not finalized either.
> The driver is still marked experimental and must be enabled with
> -Dvulkan-drivers=virtio-experimental.  The plan is to mark the driver
> stable after the kernel ABI and the protocol ABI are finalized.

Sounds good.

Is the virglrenderer side merged? or is it a case of both sides
landing close to each other.

Dave.
>
> [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/virgl/drm-misc-next/-/commits/context-init/
> [2] KVM-based VMM written in Rust
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/
> [3] vtest is a part of virglrenderer and is what I use for most of the
> developments
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