Change queue/pipe split between amdkfd and amdgpu

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On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Andres Rodriguez <andresx7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Felix,
>
> Thanks for the pointer to the ROCm mqd commit. I like that the workarounds
> are easy to spot. I'll add that to a new patch series I'm working on for
> some bug-fixes for perf being lower on pipes other than pipe 0.
>
> I haven't tested this yet on kaveri/carrizo. I'm hoping someone with the HW
> will be able to give it a go. I put in a few small hacks to get KFD to boot
> but do nothing on polaris10.
>
> Regards,
> Andres
>
>
> On 2017-02-06 03:20 PM, Felix Kuehling wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andres,
>>
>> Thank you for tackling this task. It's more involved than I expected,
>> mostly because I didn't have much awareness of the MQD management in
>> amdgpu.
>>
>> I made one comment in a separate message about the unified MQD commit
>> function, if you want to bring that more in line with our latest ROCm
>> release on github.
>>
>> Also, were you able to test the upstream KFD with your changes on a
>> Kaveri or Carrizo?
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Felix
>>
>>
>> On 17-02-03 11:51 PM, Andres Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>> The current queue/pipe split policy is for amdgpu to take the first pipe
>>> of
>>> MEC0 and leave the rest for amdkfd to use. This policy is taken as an
>>> assumption in a few areas of the implementation.
>>>
>>> This patch series aims to allow for flexible/tunable queue/pipe split
>>> policies
>>> between kgd and kfd. It also updates the queue/pipe split policy to one
>>> that
>>> allows better compute app concurrency for both drivers.
>>>
>>> In the process some duplicate code and hardcoded constants were removed.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions or feedback on improvements welcome.
>>>
>>
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Hi Andres,
I will try to find sometime to test it on my Kaveri machine.

Oded


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