In preparation to support many distinct timelines, we need to expand the
activity tracking on the GEM object to handle more than just a request
per engine. We already use the struct reservation_object on the dma-buf
to handle many fence contexts, so integrating that into the GEM object
itself is the preferred solution. (For example, we can now share the same
reservation_object between every consumer/producer using this buffer and
skip the manual import/export via dma-buf.)
v2: Reimplement busy-ioctl (by walking the reservation object), postpone
the ABI change for another day. Similarly use the reservation object to
find the last_write request (if active and from i915) for choosing
display CS flips.
Caveats:
* busy-ioctl: busy-ioctl only reports on the native fences, it will not
warn of stalls (in set-domain-ioctl, pread/pwrite etc) if the object is
being rendered to by external fences. It also will not report the same
busy state as wait-ioctl (or polling on the dma-buf) in the same
circumstances. On the plus side, it does retain reporting of which
*i915* engines are engaged with this object.
* non-blocking atomic modesets take a step backwards as the wait for
render completion blocks the ioctl. This is fixed in a subsequent
patch to use a fence instead for awaiting on the rendering, see
"drm/i915: Restore nonblocking awaits for modesetting"
* dynamic array manipulation for shared-fences in reservation is slower
than the previous lockless static assignment (e.g. gem_exec_lut_handle
runtime on ivb goes from 42s to 66s), mainly due to atomic operations
(maintaining the fence refcounts).
* loss of object-level retirement callbacks, emulated by VMA retirement
tracking.
* minor loss of object-level last activity information from debugfs,
could be replaced with per-vma information if desired
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161028125858.23563-21-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The plan is to make obtaining the backing storage for the object avoid
struct_mutex (i.e. use its own locking). The first step is to update the
API so that normal users only call pin/unpin whilst working on the
backing storage.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161028125858.23563-12-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Quite a few of our objects used for internal hardware programming do not
benefit from being swappable or from being zero initialised. As such
they do not benefit from using a shmemfs backing storage and since they
are internal and never directly exposed to the user, we do not need to
worry about providing a filp. For these we can use an
drm_i915_gem_object wrapper around a sg_table of plain struct page. They
are not swap backed and not automatically pinned. If they are reaped
by the shrinker, the pages are released and the contents discarded. For
the internal use case, this is fine as for example, ringbuffers are
pinned from being written by a request to be read by the hardware. Once
they are idle, they can be discarded entirely. As such they are a good
match for execlist ringbuffers and a small variety of other internal
objects.
In the first iteration, this is limited to the scratch batch buffers we
use (for command parsing and state initialisation).
v2: Allocate physically contiguous pages, where possible.
v3: Reduce maximum order on subsequent requests following an allocation
failure.
v4: Fix up mismatch between swiotlb segment size and page count (it
counts in 2k units, not 4k pages)
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161028125858.23563-7-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
We only need the active reference to keep the object alive after the
handle has been deleted (so as to prevent a synchronous gem_close). Why
then pay the price of a kref on every execbuf when we can insert that
final active ref just in time for the handle deletion?
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161028125858.23563-6-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
We should not rely on obj->active being uptodate unless we manually
flush it. Instead, we can verify that the next available batch object is
idle by looking at its last active request (and checking it for
completion).
v2: remove the struct drm_device forward declaration added in the
process of removing its necessity
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470324762-2545-3-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Propagate the real error from drm_gem_object_init(). Note this also
fixes some confusion in the error return from i915_gem_alloc_object...
v2:
(Matthew Auld)
- updated new users of gem_alloc_object from latest drm-nightly
- replaced occurrences of IS_ERR_OR_NULL() with IS_ERR()
v3:
(Joonas Lahtinen)
- fix double "From:" in commit message
- add goto teardown path
v4:
(Matthew Auld)
- rebase with i915_gem_alloc_object name change
Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1461587533-8841-1-git-send-email-matthew.auld@intel.com
[Joonas: Removed spurious " = NULL" from _init() function]
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Because having both i915_gem_object_alloc() and i915_gem_alloc_object()
(with different return conventions) is just too confusing!
(i915_gem_object_alloc() is the low-level memory allocator, and remains
unchanged, whereas i915_gem_alloc_object() is a constructor that ALSO
initialises the newly-allocated object.)
Signed-off-by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1461348872-4702-1-git-send-email-david.s.gordon@intel.com
Now with the trimmed memcpy before the command parser, we try to
allocate many different sizes of batches, predominantly one or two
pages. We can therefore speed up searching for a good sized batch by
keeping the objects of buckets of roughly the same size.
v2: Add a comment about bucket sizes
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
I woke up one morning and found 50k objects sitting in the batch pool
and every search seemed to iterate the entire list... Painting the
screen in oils would provide a more fluid display.
One issue with the current design is that we only check for retirements
on the current ring when preparing to submit a new batch. This means
that we can have thousands of "active" batches on another ring that we
have to walk over. The simplest way to avoid that is to split the pools
per ring and then our LRU execution ordering will also ensure that the
inactive buffers remain at the front.
v2: execlists still requires duplicate code.
v3: execlists requires more duplicate code
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Move the madvise logic out of the execbuffer main path into the
relatively rare allocation path, making the execbuffer manipulation less
fragile.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
In the next patch, I want to use the structure elsewhere and so require
it defined earlier. Rather than move the definition to an earlier location
where it feels very odd, place it in its own header file.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
By adding a new exec_entry flag, we cleanly mark the shadow objects
as purgeable after they are on the active list.
v2:
- Move 'shadow_batch_obj->madv = I915_MADV_WILLNEED' inside _get
fnc (danvet, from v4 6/7 feedback)
v3:
- Remove duplicate 'madv = I915_MADV_WILLNEED' (danvet, from v6 4/5)
Issue: VIZ-4719
Signed-off-by: Brad Volkin <bradley.d.volkin@intel.com>
Reviewed-By: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
This adds a small module for managing a pool of batch buffers.
The only current use case is for the command parser, as described
in the kerneldoc in the patch. The code is simple, but separating
it out makes it easier to change the underlying algorithms and to
extend to future use cases should they arise.
The interface is simple: init to create an empty pool, fini to
clean it up, get to obtain a new buffer. Note that all buffers are
expected to be inactive before cleaning up the pool.
Locking is currently based on the caller holding the struct_mutex.
We already do that in the places where we will use the batch pool
for the command parser.
v2:
- s/BUG_ON/WARN_ON/ for locking assertions
- Remove the cap on pool size
- Switch from alloc/free to init/fini
v3:
- Idiomatic looping structure in _fini
- Correct handling of purged objects
- Don't return a buffer that's too much larger than needed
v4:
- Rebased to latest -nightly
v5:
- Remove _put() function and clean up comments to match
v6:
- Move purged check inside the loop (danvet, from v4 1/7 feedback)
v7:
- Use single list instead of two. (Chris W)
- s/active_list/cache_list
- Squashed in debug patches (Chris W)
drm/i915: Add a batch pool debugfs file
It provides some useful information about the buffers in
the global command parser batch pool.
v2: rebase on global pool instead of per-ring pools
v3: rebase
drm/i915: Add batch pool details to i915_gem_objects debugfs
To better account for the potentially large memory consumption
of the batch pool.
v8:
- Keep cache in LRU order (danvet, from v6 1/5 feedback)
Issue: VIZ-4719
Signed-off-by: Brad Volkin <bradley.d.volkin@intel.com>
Reviewed-By: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Chris Wilson
Dave Gordon
Brad Volkin