Am 18.05.21 um 17:38 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
On 5/18/21 5:28 PM, Christian König wrote:
Am 18.05.21 um 17:20 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
On 5/18/21 5:18 PM, Christian König wrote:
Am 18.05.21 um 17:15 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
On 5/18/21 10:26 AM, Thomas Hellström wrote:
We are calling the eviction_valuable driver callback at eviction
time to
determine whether we actually can evict a buffer object.
The upcoming i915 TTM backend needs the same functionality for
swapout,
and that might actually be beneficial to other drivers as well.
Add an eviction_valuable call also in the swapout path. Try to
keep the
current behaviour for all drivers by returning true if the buffer
object
is already in the TTM_PL_SYSTEM placement. We change behaviour
for the
case where a buffer object is in a TT backed placement when
swapped out,
in which case the drivers normal eviction_valuable path is run.
Finally export ttm_tt_unpopulate() and don't swap out bos
that are not populated. This allows a driver to purge a bo at
swapout time if its content is no longer valuable rather than to
have TTM swap the contents out.
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Christian,
Here we have a ttm_tt_unpopulate() export as well at the end. I
figure you will push back on that one. What we really need is a
functionality to just drop the bo contents and end up in system
memory unpopulated. Should I perhaps add a utility function to do
that instead? like ttm_bo_purge()?
We already have that. Just call ttm_bo_validate() without any place
to put the buffer.
See how ttm_bo_pipeline_gutting() is used.
Christian.
OK, so is that reentrant from the move() or swap_notify() callback.
That sounds like a design bug to me since you should never need to do
this.
When you want to destroy the backing store of a buffer during
eviction you should just do this by returning an empty placement from
the evict_flags callback.
So this is for the functionality where the user has indicated that the
contents is no longer of value, but the buffer itself
is cached until evicted or swapped out for performance reasons. So the
above would work for eviction, but what about swapout. Could we add
some similar functionality there?
Amdgpu has the same functionality and you don't need to handle swap at all.
Just return from the evict_flags that you want to drop the backing store
as soon as the BO leaves the GTT domain.
Christian.
/Thomas
Regards,
Christian.
/Thomas
Thanks,
Thomas
