Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Let BO created in its allowed_domain

["Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@xxxxxxx>]

[AMD Official Use Only]

Why? just to evict some inactive vram BOs?

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From: Koenig, Christian <Christian.Koenig@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2021 3:06:16 PM
To: Pan, Xinhui <Xinhui.Pan@xxxxxxx>; amd-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <amd-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Let BO created in its allowed_domain

 

Am 17.09.21 um 09:04 schrieb xinhui pan:
> For any user BO, it is allowed to alloc memory in both GTT and VRAM
> domain. That means one VRAM BO could be eviced to GTT.
>
> Now if device is already lack of VRAM, this BO could alloc memory from
> GTT directly without evicting other VRAM BO. In this way we can reduce
> memory evictions.

NAK, that is intentional pressure on VRAM during allocation of new memory.

Christian.

>
> Signed-off-by: xinhui pan <xinhui.pan@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c
> index 66bb8a53bb20..9a547bb38cda 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c
> @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ int amdgpu_bo_create(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
>                          AMDGPU_GEM_DOMAIN_GDS))
>                amdgpu_bo_placement_from_domain(bo, AMDGPU_GEM_DOMAIN_CPU);
>        else
> -             amdgpu_bo_placement_from_domain(bo, bp->domain);
> +             amdgpu_bo_placement_from_domain(bo, bo->allowed_domains);
>        if (bp->type == ttm_bo_type_kernel)
>                bo->tbo.priority = 1;
>