Re: [PATCH 4/4] drm/ttm: optimize ttm pool shrinker a bit

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Am 07.01.21 um 17:38 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 01:49:45PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
Am 22.12.20 um 14:51 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 06:55:38PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
Only initialize the DMA coherent pools if they are used.

Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Ah, just realized the answer to my question on patch 2: The pools are
per-device, due to dma_alloc_coherent being per-device (but really mostly
it isn't, but that's what we have to deal with fighting the dma-api
abstraction).

I think this would make a lot more sense if the shrinkers are per-pool
(and also most of the debugfs files), since as-is in a multi-gpu system
the first gpu's pool gets preferrentially thrashed. Which isn't a nice
design. Splitting that into per gpu shrinkers means we get equal shrinking
without having to maintain a global lru. This is how xfs seems to set up
their shrinkers, and in general xfs people have a solid understanding of
this stuff.
Well fairness and not trashing the first GPUs pool is the reason why I
implemented just one shrinker plus a global LRU.
That's kinda defeating the point of how the core mm works. At least of how
I'm understanding how it works. Imo we shouldn't try to re-implement this
kind of balancing across different pools in our callback, since core mm
tries pretty hard to equally shrink already (it only shrinks each shrinker
a little bit each round, but does a lot of rounds under memory pressure).

Correct, see the problem is that we don't want to shrink from each pool on each round.

E.g. we have something like 48 global pools and 36 for each device which needs a DMA coherent pool.

On each round we want to shrink only one cached item from one pool and not 48.

Also maintaining your own global lru means global locking for the usual
case of none-to-little memory contention, unecessarily wasting the fast
path.

No, the fast path doesn't need to take the global LRU lock.

I've optimized this quite a bit by looking into the pools only once for each power of two.

In other words shrink_slab() just uses list_for_each_entry() on all
shrinkers.

In the pool shrinker callback shrink one pool and move it to the end of the
shrinker list.

Aside: I think it also would make tons of sense to split up your new ttm
bo shrinker up into a per-device lru, and throw the global system memory
lru out the window completely :-) Assuming we can indeed get rid of it,
and vmwgfx doesn't need it somewhere still.
Yeah, I already have that as a patch set here, but I have this dependent on
a larger rename of the device structures.
Hm maybe include that in the next round, just for the bigger picture?
Don't have to merge it all in one go, just want to make sure we agree on
where we're going.

I need to clean this set up quite a bit. Let's push this one here upstream first.

Aside from this lgtm, but I guess will change a bit with that shuffling.
Thanks for the review, going to send out a new version with the
fs_reclaim_acquire/release added in a minute.
Cool.

Cheers, Daniel

Got distracted by bug fixes in the last two weeks, but really going to send that out now :)

Christian.


Christian.

-Daniel

---
   drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
index 1cdacd58753a..f09e34614226 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
@@ -504,10 +504,12 @@ void ttm_pool_init(struct ttm_pool *pool, struct device *dev,
   	pool->use_dma_alloc = use_dma_alloc;
   	pool->use_dma32 = use_dma32;
-	for (i = 0; i < TTM_NUM_CACHING_TYPES; ++i)
-		for (j = 0; j < MAX_ORDER; ++j)
-			ttm_pool_type_init(&pool->caching[i].orders[j],
-					   pool, i, j);
+	if (use_dma_alloc) {
+		for (i = 0; i < TTM_NUM_CACHING_TYPES; ++i)
+			for (j = 0; j < MAX_ORDER; ++j)
+				ttm_pool_type_init(&pool->caching[i].orders[j],
+						   pool, i, j);
+	}
   }
   EXPORT_SYMBOL(ttm_pool_init);
@@ -523,9 +525,11 @@ void ttm_pool_fini(struct ttm_pool *pool)
   {
   	unsigned int i, j;
-	for (i = 0; i < TTM_NUM_CACHING_TYPES; ++i)
-		for (j = 0; j < MAX_ORDER; ++j)
-			ttm_pool_type_fini(&pool->caching[i].orders[j]);
+	if (pool->use_dma_alloc) {
+		for (i = 0; i < TTM_NUM_CACHING_TYPES; ++i)
+			for (j = 0; j < MAX_ORDER; ++j)
+				ttm_pool_type_fini(&pool->caching[i].orders[j]);
+	}
   }
   EXPORT_SYMBOL(ttm_pool_fini);
@@ -630,6 +634,11 @@ int ttm_pool_debugfs(struct ttm_pool *pool, struct seq_file *m)
   {
   	unsigned int i;
+	if (!pool->use_dma_alloc) {
+		seq_puts(m, "unused\n");
+		return 0;
+	}
+
   	ttm_pool_debugfs_header(m);
   	spin_lock(&shrinker_lock);
--
2.25.1


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