Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: prefer FORCE_WC for the blitter routines

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Quoting Matthew Auld (2021-01-18 15:55:31)
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 14:54, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Matthew Auld (2021-01-18 14:17:31)
> > > From: CQ Tang <cq.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The pool is shared and so we might find that there is a pool object with
> > > an existing mapping, but is mapped with different underlying type, which
> > > will result in -EBUSY.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: CQ Tang <cq.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_blt.c | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_blt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_blt.c
> > > index 10cac9fac79b..c6db745900b3 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_blt.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_object_blt.c
> > > @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ struct i915_vma *intel_emit_vma_fill_blt(struct intel_context *ce,
> > >         if (unlikely(err))
> > >                 goto out_put;
> > >
> > > -       cmd = i915_gem_object_pin_map(pool->obj, I915_MAP_WC);
> > > +       cmd = i915_gem_object_pin_map(pool->obj, I915_MAP_FORCE_WC);
> > >         if (IS_ERR(cmd)) {
> > >                 err = PTR_ERR(cmd);
> > >                 goto out_unpin;
> > > @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ struct i915_vma *intel_emit_vma_copy_blt(struct intel_context *ce,
> > >         if (unlikely(err))
> > >                 goto out_put;
> > >
> > > -       cmd = i915_gem_object_pin_map(pool->obj, I915_MAP_WC);
> > > +       cmd = i915_gem_object_pin_map(pool->obj, I915_MAP_FORCE_WC);
> > >         if (IS_ERR(cmd)) {
> > >                 err = PTR_ERR(cmd);
> > >                 goto out_unpin;
> >
> > FORCE is becoming meaningless.
> >
> > In this case we pin the pages upon acquiring from the pool, which then
> > prevents us from changing the mapping type. The purpose of which was so
> > that we could cache the mapping between users, and here we are saying
> > that cache is made useless. The danger is that we are now thrashing the
> > cache, hurting ourselves with the vmap overhead.
> >
> > Maybe we should move the mapping-type into the buffer-pool cache itself?
> 
> Yeah, makes sense I think. Maybe something simple like:
> 
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool.c
> @@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ static void pool_retire(struct i915_active *ref)
>  }
> 
>  static struct intel_gt_buffer_pool_node *
> -node_create(struct intel_gt_buffer_pool *pool, size_t sz)
> +node_create(struct intel_gt_buffer_pool *pool, size_t sz,
> +           enum i915_map_type type)
>  {
>         struct intel_gt *gt = to_gt(pool);
>         struct intel_gt_buffer_pool_node *node;
> @@ -169,12 +170,14 @@ node_create(struct intel_gt_buffer_pool *pool, size_t sz)
> 
>         i915_gem_object_set_readonly(obj);
> 
> +       node->type = type;
>         node->obj = obj;
>         return node;
>  }
> 
>  struct intel_gt_buffer_pool_node *
> -intel_gt_get_buffer_pool(struct intel_gt *gt, size_t size)
> +intel_gt_get_buffer_pool(struct intel_gt *gt, size_t size,
> +                        enum i915_map_type type)
>  {
>         struct intel_gt_buffer_pool *pool = &gt->buffer_pool;
>         struct intel_gt_buffer_pool_node *node;
> @@ -191,6 +194,9 @@ intel_gt_get_buffer_pool(struct intel_gt *gt, size_t size)
>                 if (node->obj->base.size < size)
>                         continue;
> 
> +               if (node->type != type)
> +                       continue;
> +
>                 age = READ_ONCE(node->age);
>                 if (!age)
>                         continue;
> @@ -205,7 +211,7 @@ intel_gt_get_buffer_pool(struct intel_gt *gt, size_t size)
>         rcu_read_unlock();
> 
>         if (&node->link == list) {
> -               node = node_create(pool, size);
> +               node = node_create(pool, size, type);
>                 if (IS_ERR(node))
>                         return node;
>         }
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool.h
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool.h
> index 42cbac003e8a..6068f8f1762e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool.h
> @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ struct intel_gt;
>  struct i915_request;
> 
>  struct intel_gt_buffer_pool_node *
> -intel_gt_get_buffer_pool(struct intel_gt *gt, size_t size);
> +intel_gt_get_buffer_pool(struct intel_gt *gt, size_t size,
> +                        enum i915_map_type type);
> 
>  static inline int
>  intel_gt_buffer_pool_mark_active(struct intel_gt_buffer_pool_node *node,
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool_types.h
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool_types.h
> index bcf1658c9633..e8f7dba36b76 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool_types.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_buffer_pool_types.h
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ struct intel_gt_buffer_pool_node {
>                 struct rcu_head rcu;
>         };
>         unsigned long age;
> +       enum i915_map_type type;
>  };
> 
> Or maybe it should be split over multiple lists or something, one for each type?

This looks good for a first pass. We can split the buckets by type later
if we feel so inclined. At the moment, I hope our lists are short enough
that we only have to skip one or two before finding a match.
-Chris
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