Re: [LKP] [drm/mgag200] 90f479ae51: vm-scalability.median -18.8% regression

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Hi Thomas,

On 9/4/2019 4:43 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Hi

Am 04.09.19 um 10:35 schrieb Feng Tang:
Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 10:11:11AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 8:53 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi

Am 04.09.19 um 08:27 schrieb Feng Tang:
Thank you for testing. But don't get too excited, because the patch
simulates a bug that was present in the original mgag200 code. A
significant number of frames are simply skipped. That is apparently the
reason why it's faster.
Thanks for the detailed info, so the original code skips time-consuming
work inside atomic context on purpose. Is there any space to optmise it?
If 2 scheduled update worker are handled at almost same time, can one be
skipped?
To my knowledge, there's only one instance of the worker. Re-scheduling
the worker before a previous instance started, will not create a second
instance. The worker's instance will complete all pending updates. So in
some way, skipping workers already happens.
So I think that the most often fbcon update from atomic context is the
blinking cursor. If you disable that one you should be back to the old
performance level I think, since just writing to dmesg is from process
context, so shouldn't change.
Hmm, then for the old driver, it should also do the most update in
non-atomic context? 

One other thing is, I profiled that updating a 3MB shadow buffer needs
20 ms, which transfer to 150 MB/s bandwidth. Could it be related with
the cache setting of DRM shadow buffer? say the orginal code use a
cachable buffer?


https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3759/how-to-stop-cursor-from-blinking

Bunch of tricks, but tbh I haven't tested them.
Thomas has suggested to disable curson by
	echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink

We tried that way, and no change for the performance data.
There are several ways of disabling the cursor. On my test system, I entered

  tput civis

before the test and got better performance. Did you try this as well?

There's no obvious change on our system.

Best Regards,
Rong Chen


Best regards
Thomas

Thanks,
Feng

In any case, I still strongly advice you don't print anything to dmesg
or fbcon while benchmarking, because dmesg/printf are anything but
fast, especially if a gpu driver is involved. There's some efforts to
make the dmesg/printk side less painful (untangling the console_lock
from printk), but fundamentally printing to the gpu from the kernel
through dmesg/fbcon won't be cheap. It's just not something we
optimize beyond "make sure it works for emergencies".
-Daniel

Best regards
Thomas

Thanks,
Feng

Best regards
Thomas
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