Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/gt: Temporarily disable CPU caching into DMA for MTL

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Hi Jonathan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-gfx <intel-gfx-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jonathan
> Cavitt
> Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 10:59 AM
> To: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Gupta, saurabhg <saurabhg.gupta@xxxxxxxxx>; Cavitt, Jonathan
> <jonathan.cavitt@xxxxxxxxx>; chris.p.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  [PATCH] drm/i915/gt: Temporarily disable CPU caching into
> DMA for MTL
> 
> FIXME: It is suspected that some Address Translation Service (ATS)
> issue on IOMMU is causing CAT errors to occur on some MTL workloads.
> Applying a write barrier to the ppgtt set entry functions appeared
> to have no effect, so we must temporarily use I915_MAP_WC in the
> map_pt_dma class of functions on MTL until a proper ATS solution is
> found.
> 
What is the performance impact here? Are we disabling caching only
for the pte changes/scratch pages or does it extend beyond?

Regards,
Radhakrishna(RK) Sripada 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cavitt <jonathan.cavitt@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Chris Wilson <chris.p.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c
> index 4fbed27ef0ecc..21719563a602a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gtt.c
> @@ -95,6 +95,16 @@ int map_pt_dma(struct i915_address_space *vm, struct
> drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
>  	void *vaddr;
> 
>  	type = intel_gt_coherent_map_type(vm->gt, obj, true);
> +	/*
> +	 * FIXME: It is suspected that some Address Translation Service (ATS)
> +	 * issue on IOMMU is causing CAT errors to occur on some MTL
> workloads.
> +	 * Applying a write barrier to the ppgtt set entry functions appeared
> +	 * to have no effect, so we must temporarily use I915_MAP_WC here on
> +	 * MTL until a proper ATS solution is found.
> +	 */
> +	if (IS_METEORLAKE(vm->i915))
> +		type = I915_MAP_WC;
> +
>  	vaddr = i915_gem_object_pin_map_unlocked(obj, type);
>  	if (IS_ERR(vaddr))
>  		return PTR_ERR(vaddr);
> @@ -109,6 +119,16 @@ int map_pt_dma_locked(struct i915_address_space
> *vm, struct drm_i915_gem_object
>  	void *vaddr;
> 
>  	type = intel_gt_coherent_map_type(vm->gt, obj, true);
> +	/*
> +	 * FIXME: It is suspected that some Address Translation Service (ATS)
> +	 * issue on IOMMU is causing CAT errors to occur on some MTL
> workloads.
> +	 * Applying a write barrier to the ppgtt set entry functions appeared
> +	 * to have no effect, so we must temporarily use I915_MAP_WC here on
> +	 * MTL until a proper ATS solution is found.
> +	 */
> +	if (IS_METEORLAKE(vm->i915))
> +		type = I915_MAP_WC;
> +
>  	vaddr = i915_gem_object_pin_map(obj, type);
>  	if (IS_ERR(vaddr))
>  		return PTR_ERR(vaddr);
> --
> 2.25.1





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