Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 02/12] drm/i915/guc: Don't call ring_is_idle in GuC submission

[John Harrison <john.c.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/18/2022 05:26, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> On 13/07/2022 00:31, John.C.Harrison@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The engine registers really shouldn't be touched during GuC submission
> > as the GuC owns the registers. Don't call ring_is_idle and tie
>
> Touch being just read and it is somehow harmful?
The registers are meaningless when GuC is controlling the submission. 
The i915 driver has no knowledge of what context is or is not executing 
on any given engine at any given time. So reading reading the ring 
registers is incorrect - it can lead to bad assumptions about what state 
the hardware is in.

> > intel_engine_is_idle strictly to the engine pm.
>
> Strictly seems wrong - it is just ring_is_idle check that is replaced 
> and not the whole implementation of intel_engine_is_idle.
>
> > Because intel_engine_is_idle tied to the engine pm, retire requests
> > before checking intel_engines_are_idle in gt_drop_caches, and lastly
> Why is re-ordering important? I at least can't understand it. I hope 
> it's not working around IGT failures.
If requests are physically completed but not retired then they will be 
holding unnecessary PM references. So we need to flush those out before 
checking for idle.

> > increase the timeout in gt_drop_caches for the intel_engines_are_idle
> > check.
>
> Same here - why?
@Matthew Brost - do you recall which particular tests were hitting an 
issue? I'm guessing gem_ctx_create? I believe that's the one that 
creates and destroys thousands of contexts. That is much slower with GuC 
(GuC communication required) than with execlists (i915 internal state 
change only).

John.



> Regards,
>
> Tvrtko
>
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c       |  6 +++---
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h           |  2 +-
> >   3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
> > index 283870c659911..959a7c92e8f4d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
> > @@ -1602,6 +1602,9 @@ static bool ring_is_idle(struct intel_engine_cs 
> > *engine)
> >   {
> >       bool idle = true;
> >   +    /* GuC submission shouldn't access HEAD & TAIL via MMIO */
> > +    GEM_BUG_ON(intel_engine_uses_guc(engine));
> > +
> >       if (I915_SELFTEST_ONLY(!engine->mmio_base))
> >           return true;
> >   @@ -1668,6 +1671,16 @@ bool intel_engine_is_idle(struct 
> > intel_engine_cs *engine)
> >       if (!i915_sched_engine_is_empty(engine->sched_engine))
> >           return false;
> >   +    /*
> > +     * We shouldn't touch engine registers with GuC submission as 
> > the GuC
> > +     * owns the registers. Let's tie the idle to engine pm, at worst 
> > this
> > +     * function sometimes will falsely report non-idle when idle 
> > during the
> > +     * delay to retire requests or with virtual engines and a request
> > +     * running on another instance within the same class / submit mask.
> > +     */
> > +    if (intel_engine_uses_guc(engine))
> > +        return false;
> > +
> >       /* Ring stopped? */
> >       return ring_is_idle(engine);
> >   }
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> > index 94e5c29d2ee3a..ee5334840e9cb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> > @@ -654,13 +654,13 @@ gt_drop_caches(struct intel_gt *gt, u64 val)
> >   {
> >       int ret;
> >   +    if (val & DROP_RETIRE || val & DROP_RESET_ACTIVE)
> > +        intel_gt_retire_requests(gt);
> > +
> >       if (val & DROP_RESET_ACTIVE &&
> >           wait_for(intel_engines_are_idle(gt), 
> > I915_IDLE_ENGINES_TIMEOUT))
> >           intel_gt_set_wedged(gt);
> >   -    if (val & DROP_RETIRE)
> > -        intel_gt_retire_requests(gt);
> > -
> >       if (val & (DROP_IDLE | DROP_ACTIVE)) {
> >           ret = intel_gt_wait_for_idle(gt, MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
> >           if (ret)
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h 
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> > index c22f29c3faa0e..53c7474dde495 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> > @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ struct i915_gem_mm {
> >       u32 shrink_count;
> >   };
> >   -#define I915_IDLE_ENGINES_TIMEOUT (200) /* in ms */
> > +#define I915_IDLE_ENGINES_TIMEOUT (500) /* in ms */
> >     unsigned long i915_fence_context_timeout(const struct 
> > drm_i915_private *i915,
> >                        u64 context);