Re: [RFC 2/5] drm/amdgpu: Actually respect buffer migration budget

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On 15/05/2024 08:20, Christian König wrote:
Am 08.05.24 um 20:09 schrieb Tvrtko Ursulin:
From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Current code appears to live in a misconception that playing with buffer
allowed and preferred placements can control the decision on whether
backing store migration will be attempted or not.

Both from code inspection and from empirical experiments I see that not
being true, and that both allowed and preferred placement are typically
set to the same bitmask.

That's not correct for the use case handled here, but see below.

Which part is not correct, that bo->preferred_domains and bo->allower_domains are the same bitmask?


As such, when the code decides to throttle the migration for a client, it
is in fact not achieving anything. Buffers can still be either migrated or
not migrated based on the external (to this function and facility) logic.

Fix it by not changing the buffer object placements if the migration
budget has been spent.

FIXME:
Is it still required to call validate is the question..

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Friedrich Vock <friedrich.vock@xxxxxx>
---
  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c | 12 +++++++++---
  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c
index 22708954ae68..d07a1dd7c880 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c
@@ -784,6 +784,7 @@ static int amdgpu_cs_bo_validate(void *param, struct amdgpu_bo *bo)
          .no_wait_gpu = false,
          .resv = bo->tbo.base.resv
      };
+    bool migration_allowed = true;
      struct ttm_resource *old_res;
      uint32_t domain;
      int r;
@@ -805,19 +806,24 @@ static int amdgpu_cs_bo_validate(void *param, struct amdgpu_bo *bo)
               * visible VRAM if we've depleted our allowance to do
               * that.
               */
-            if (p->bytes_moved_vis < p->bytes_moved_vis_threshold)
+            if (p->bytes_moved_vis < p->bytes_moved_vis_threshold) {
                  domain = bo->preferred_domains;
-            else
+            } else {
                  domain = bo->allowed_domains;
+                migration_allowed = false;
+            }
          } else {
              domain = bo->preferred_domains;
          }
      } else {
          domain = bo->allowed_domains;
+        migration_allowed = false;
      }
  retry:
-    amdgpu_bo_placement_from_domain(bo, domain);
+    if (migration_allowed)
+        amdgpu_bo_placement_from_domain(bo, domain);

That's completely invalid. Calling amdgpu_bo_placement_from_domain() is a mandatory prerequisite for calling ttm_bo_validate();

E.g. the usually code fow is:

/* This initializes bo->placement */
amdgpu_bo_placement_from_domain()

/* Eventually modify bo->placement to fit special requirements */
....

/* Apply the placement to the BO */
ttm_bo_validate(&bo->tbo, &bo->placement, &ctx)

To sum it up bo->placement should be a variable on the stack instead, but we never bothered to clean that up.

I am not clear if you agree or not that the current method of trying to avoid migration doesn't really do anything?

On stack placements sounds plausible to force migration avoidance by putting a single current object placement in that list, if that is what you have in mind? Or a specialized flag/version of amdgpu_bo_placement_from_domain with an bool input like "allow_placement_change"?

Regards,

Tvrtko


Regards,
Christian.

+
      r = ttm_bo_validate(&bo->tbo, &bo->placement, &ctx);
      if (unlikely(r == -ENOMEM) && domain != bo->allowed_domains) {




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