Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add uAPI to support ICL VME hardware for new media-driver

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On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:07 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > Quoting Joonas Lahtinen (2019-01-15 16:47:27)
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I would like to have some Acked-by's from you, the distro media
> > > folks Cc'd here, to document your intent to start using Intel's
> > > new media driver[1]. So if you recognize yourself (or are otherwise
> > > interested), please read on.
> > >
> > > TL;DR Distro folks, please give your Acked-by on patch [5/6]
> >
> > A gentle reminder, I'm still looking to hear back from Stephane
> > and Dave.
> >
> > We'd like to have this included in the final 5.1 drm-intel-next
> > pull request this week.
> >
> > If there are no further comments by Wed, I will conclude that we
> > have reached a silent agreement, and merge this to give enough
> > time for Rodrigo to send the PR.
>
> Maybe should add that ubunut/suse folks seem ok. Also, it's for libva, in
> the past that's been very far down the list of contentious topics. Mostly
> positive meh seems plenty good enough feedback I think.

FWIW I think the API changes are fine. Sure it feels a bit odd at
first, but there's no better alternative that I can see either.

Acked-by: Stéphane Marchesin <marcheu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



> -Daniel
>
> >
> > Regards, Joonas
> >
> > > I believe most are already aware of the situation that Intel
> > > is moving to the new codebase for libva backend to support new Intel
> > > integrated graphics devices. The existing intel-libva-driver will
> > > be continue to be be supported for pre-Icelake platforms (<Gen11).
> > > Icelake and further platforms will only be supported from the
> > > new codebase.
> > >
> > > There's the complication that some Icelake features of the new
> > > driver will require new kernel uAPIs to work... But the new driver
> > > has not yet been well-established in the community from perspective
> > > of fulfilling [2]. This is very much due to the demand being low
> > > as Icelake is not widely available yet. So it's bit of a chicken
> > > and egg problem as we have a new platform *and* a new codebase for
> > > it simultaneously.
> > >
> > > Ahead of that community adoption, to ensure that Icelake has good
> > > kernel support from day one, we'd like to merge kernel support for
> > > the parts that have functional effect (this series). This is to
> > > avoid the scenario where end users have to update their distro
> > > kernels, like happened with Skylake.
> > >
> > > So if I could get Acked-by's from distro folks on the patch [5/6] that
> > > adds the new uAPI. That would document their intent to become an active
> > > user of the media-driver[1]. If that happens in the next week or two,
> > > it would mean that Icelake hardware features would be supported in
> > > kernel version 5.1 fully from kernel driver point of view.
> > >
> > > The new uAPI is needed to make VME feature functionally work
> > > on Icelake. It's pretty much a simple enable/disable switch for
> > > hardware configuration that only includes hardware slices compatible
> > > with the VME workload. So it's currently limited to the required on/off
> > > choice to keep things straightforward. The uAPI can be extended in the
> > > future for possible performance gains for more fine-grained control.
> > >
> > > VME is shared function to handle motion estimation. One intended
> > > usercase is in Hierarchical Motion Estimation (HME) media kernel. It
> > > provides a bigger search range with reduced cost for the search. HME
> > > should improve the encode quality with scenarios where the video has
> > > a lot of motion in it. Carl (Cc'd) can provide more details if needed.
> > >
> > > The respective IGT tests are reviewed and can be found at:
> > >
> > >   https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/49190/
> > >
> > > The userspace changes are reviewed and rebased here:
> > >
> > >   https://github.com/intel/media-driver/pull/271
> > >   https://github.com/intel/media-driver/pull/463
> > >
> > > Best Regards, Joonas Lahtinen
> > >
> > > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Timo Aaltonen <timo.aaltonen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Stephane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > PS. This series might result in some CI failures reported as it adds new uAPI
> > >     and Patchwork / CI synchronization of tests and kernel is currently WIP.
> > >
> > > [1] https://github.com/intel/media-driver
> > > [2] https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/drm/gpu/drm-uapi.html#open-source-userspace-requirements
> > >
> > > Lionel Landwerlin (2):
> > >   drm/i915: Record the sseu configuration per-context & engine
> > >   drm/i915/perf: lock powergating configuration to default when active
> > >
> > > Tvrtko Ursulin (4):
> > >   drm/i915/execlists: Move RPCS setup to context pin
> > >   drm/i915: Add timeline barrier support
> > >   drm/i915: Expose RPCS (SSEU) configuration to userspace (Gen11 only)
> > >   drm/i915/selftests: Context SSEU reconfiguration tests
> > >
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h               |  14 +
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c       | 354 ++++++++++++-
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.h       |  10 +
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c              |  13 +-
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c           |  13 +
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h           |  10 +
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_timeline.c          |   3 +
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_timeline.h          |  27 +
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c              | 100 ++--
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.h              |   2 +
> > >  .../gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_gem_context.c | 481 ++++++++++++++++++
> > >  .../gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_timeline.c    |   2 +
> > >  include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h                   |  64 +++
> > >  13 files changed, 1056 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.17.2
> > >
>
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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