Thanks for the review, Chris. Sorry for the late response. >-----Original Message----- >From: dri-devel [mailto:dri-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson >Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2018 1:46 AM >To: Xiong, James <james.xiong@xxxxxxxxx>; dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Cc: Xiong, James <james.xiong@xxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/1] intel: align reuse buffer's size on page size instead > >Quoting James Xiong (2018-03-02 17:53:04) >> From: "Xiong, James" <james.xiong@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> With gem_reuse enabled, when a buffer size is different than the sizes >> of buckets, it is aligned to the next bucket's size, which means about >> 25% more memory than the requested is allocated in the worst senario. >> For example: >> >> Orignal size Actual >> 32KB+1Byte 40KB >>. >>. >>. >>8MB+1Byte 10MB >>. >>. >>. >>96MB+1Byte 112MB >> >> This is very memory expensive and make the reuse feature less >> favorable than it deserves to be. >> >> This commit aligns the reuse buffer size on page size instead, the >> buffer whose size falls between bucket[n] and bucket[n+1] is put in >> bucket[n] when it's done; And when searching for a cached buffer for >> reuse, it goes through the cached buffers list in the bucket until a >> cached buffer, whose size is larger than or equal to the requested >> size, is found. >> >> Performed gfxbench tests, the performances and reuse ratioes (reuse >> count/allocation count) were same as before, saved memory usage by 1% >> ~ 7%(gl_manhattan: peak allocated memory size was reduced from >> 448401408 to 419078144). > >Apart from GL doesn't use this... And what is the impact on !llc, where buffer reuse is more important? (Every new buffer requires clflushing.) The test was run against a Gen9 that doesn't support LLC. Please let me know if you have some performance tests for me to run. > > > >> Signed-off-by: Xiong, James <james.xiong@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- >> libdrm_lists.h | 6 ++ >> 2 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c b/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c index >> 386da30..5b2d0d0 100644 >> --- a/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c >> +++ b/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c >> @@ -402,11 +402,10 @@ >> drm_intel_gem_bo_bucket_for_size(drm_intel_bufmgr_gem *bufmgr_gem, { >> int i; >> >> - for (i = 0; i < bufmgr_gem->num_buckets; i++) { >> - struct drm_intel_gem_bo_bucket *bucket = >> - &bufmgr_gem->cache_bucket[i]; >> - if (bucket->size >= size) { >> - return bucket; >> + for (i = 0; i < bufmgr_gem->num_buckets - 1; i++) { >> + if (size >= bufmgr_gem->cache_bucket[i].size && >> + size < bufmgr_gem->cache_bucket[i+1].size) { >> + return &bufmgr_gem->cache_bucket[i]; > >Are your buckets not ordered correctly? The order is the same as before, so are the buckets' sizes. > >Please reduce this patch to a series of small functional changes required to bring into effect having mixed, page-aligned bo->size within a bucket. Will do. >-Chris _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
