Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/guc: Add Compute context hint

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On 23/02/2024 19:25, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:31:41AM -0800, Belgaumkar, Vinay wrote:

On 2/23/2024 12:51 AM, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:

On 22/02/2024 23:31, Belgaumkar, Vinay wrote:

On 2/22/2024 7:32 AM, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:

On 21/02/2024 21:28, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 09:42:34AM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:

On 21/02/2024 00:14, Vinay Belgaumkar wrote:
Allow user to provide a context hint. When this is set, KMD will
send a hint to GuC which results in special handling for this
context. SLPC will ramp the GT frequency aggressively every time
it switches to this context. The down freq threshold will also be
lower so GuC will ramp down the GT freq for this
context more slowly.
We also disable waitboost for this context as that
will interfere with
the strategy.

We need to enable the use of Compute strategy during SLPC init, but
it will apply only to contexts that set this bit during context
creation.

Userland can check whether this feature is supported
using a new param-
I915_PARAM_HAS_COMPUTE_CONTEXT. This flag is true
for all guc submission
enabled platforms since they use SLPC for freq management.

The Mesa usage model for this flag is here -
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/sushmave/mesa/-/commits/compute_hint

This allows for setting it for the whole application,
correct? Upsides,
downsides? Are there any plans for per context?

Currently there's no extension on a high level API
(Vulkan/OpenGL/OpenCL/etc)
that would allow the application to hint for
power/freq/latency. So Mesa cannot
decide when to hint. So their solution was to use .drirc and
make per-application
decision.

I would prefer a high level extension for a more granular
and informative
decision. We need to work with that goal, but for now I don't see any
cons on this approach.

In principle yeah I doesn't harm to have the option. I am just
not sure how useful this intermediate step this is with its lack
of intra-process granularity.

Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vinay Belgaumkar <vinay.belgaumkar@xxxxxxxxx>
---
    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c   |  8 +++++++
    .../gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h |  1 +
    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_rps.c           |  8 +++++++
    .../drm/i915/gt/uc/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h |
21 +++++++++++++++++++
    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.c   |
17 +++++++++++++++
    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.h   |  1 +
    .../gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c |  7 +++++++
    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_getparam.c          | 11 ++++++++++
    include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h                   | 15 +++++++++++++
    9 files changed, 89 insertions(+)

diff --git
a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
index dcbfe32fd30c..ceab7dbe9b47 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
@@ -879,6 +879,7 @@ static int
set_proto_ctx_param(struct drm_i915_file_private
*fpriv,
                       struct i915_gem_proto_context *pc,
                       struct drm_i915_gem_context_param *args)
    {
+    struct drm_i915_private *i915 = fpriv->i915;
        int ret = 0;
        switch (args->param) {
@@ -904,6 +905,13 @@ static int
set_proto_ctx_param(struct drm_i915_file_private
*fpriv,
                pc->user_flags &= ~BIT(UCONTEXT_BANNABLE);
            break;
+    case I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_IS_COMPUTE:
+        if (!intel_uc_uses_guc_submission(&to_gt(i915)->uc))
+            ret = -EINVAL;
+        else
+            pc->user_flags |= BIT(UCONTEXT_COMPUTE);
+        break;
+
        case I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_RECOVERABLE:
            if (args->size)
                ret = -EINVAL;
diff --git
a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h
index 03bc7f9d191b..db86d6f6245f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context_types.h
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ struct i915_gem_context {
    #define UCONTEXT_BANNABLE        2
    #define UCONTEXT_RECOVERABLE        3
    #define UCONTEXT_PERSISTENCE        4
+#define UCONTEXT_COMPUTE        5

What is the GuC behaviour when
SLPC_CTX_FREQ_REQ_IS_COMPUTE is set for
non-compute engines? Wondering if per intel_context is
what we want instead.
(Which could then be the i915_context_param_engines extension to mark
individual contexts as compute strategy.)

Perhaps we should rename this? This is a freq-decision-strategy inside
GuC that is there mostly targeting compute workloads that needs lower
latency with short burst execution. But the engine itself
doesn't matter.
It can be applied to any engine.

I have no idea if it makes sense for other engines, such as
video, and what would be pros and cons in terms of PnP. But in
the case we end up allowing it on any engine, then at least
userspace name shouldn't be compute. :)
Yes, one of the suggestions from Daniele was to have something along
the lines of UCONTEXT_HIFREQ or something along those lines so we
don't confuse it with the Compute Engine.

hmm... I'm not fan of this name. GuC's compute strategy is not just about
high gt frequency, but also some hysteresis to keep the freq high for a
while and cover burst cases where the latency up and down on the frequency
transactions would be damaging the performance.

also, one might say that waitboost is already 'hifreq'.

But I honestly believe that no one has a real good name for this thing
and this is why it ended up calling 'compute' strategy in GuC, because
it was created with compute use cases in mind.

Maybe UCONTEXT_HIFREQ_LOWLATENCY?
maybe UCONTEXT_HIFREQ_AND_BURSTY?
maybe UCONTEXT_BURSTY?

I like low latency.

Okay, but additional question is would anyone ever want to set it for
video or blitter. Would it harm, benefir, or be neutral.
It would depend on the use case. SLPC will not distinguish either ways. It
will aggressively ramp the GT freq when this context is active. User is
making a decision to choose perf over power.

I agree with Vinay here. It depends on the use case and I don't see
any issue with that.

On some cases like heavy transcoder it would be neutral when compared
to waitboost since both are hifreq and transcoder woudn't alternate
fast on dropping and getting the wait boost.

I am asking this question simply for a wider consideration of whether or not being coarse would force some userspace into creating multiple GEM contexts, and then needing to implement VM sharing on top, while otherwise they would be happy with just one.

The issue wouldn't apply to a library that is purely compute obviously, but for something mixed use it might. Whether or not such user exists I am not sure, but the main point is that with granular control one does not even have to know and simply punts the decision and flexibility to userspace.

In one of the cases that we have in the pipeline we need an opposite
flag to only disable waitboost without enabling the 'compute' strategy
so a video conference wouldn't waste power.

And for that flag it would be the same question. While you have the vaapi driver it is not a concern (one GEM context just for decode by definition), but if someone wanted to implement both decode and render in the same context/address space, then per intel_context control could be better than per GEM context.

Or for both from a different angle - what is the donwside of allowing per intel_context control?

Or if we decide to call it compute and only apply to compute
engines, then I would strongly suggest making the uapi per
intel_context i.e. the set engines extension instead of the GEM
context param. Otherwise it would be odd that some engines get
it and some don't. With explicit configuration userspace gets to
see the clear picture of what is what.

It will not be per engine, so may be better to keep it at the

Why? Just because..
Feels strange that we are giving a coarse control(per gem context) to UMD
but mapping it to a finer control(per engine) on the KMD side. Anyways,
hopefully we can find a way to extend this to UMD eventually as well.

gem_context level. Trying to percolate it to the intel_context level
seems to be more complicated. We process the gem_context_param flags
first and then create the intel_context per engine. Not sure if we
want to keep 2 copies of the same flag in gem_context and
intel_context as well.

.. it is complicated? It is not complicated at all. There is
intel_context_set_gem which is just for uses like that.

Once you have this, then the only difference is whether you go from GEM
context setparam to intel_context, or flag goes directly to
intel_context as they are created via custom engine maps.

Yes, though intel_context_set_gem is called before we copy over the flags
from the user AFAICS. Will need to somehow access the user flags in that
function.

That looks a trivial matter of either moving that flag assignment few lines up, or passing pc->user_flags to user_engines and default_engines. Either sounds preferrable to having to do the rcu_read_lock and kref_get_unless_zero dance on every access.

Regards,

Tvrtko


Thanks,

Vinay.


Regards,

Tvrtko


Regards,

Tvrtko

        /**
         * @flags: small set of booleans
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_rps.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_rps.c
index 4feef874e6d6..1ed40cd61b70 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_rps.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_rps.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
    #include "intel_pcode.h"
    #include "intel_rps.h"
    #include "vlv_sideband.h"
+#include "../gem/i915_gem_context.h"
    #include "../../../platform/x86/intel_ips.h"
    #define BUSY_MAX_EI    20u /* ms */
@@ -1018,6 +1019,13 @@ void intel_rps_boost(struct i915_request *rq)
            struct intel_rps *rps = &READ_ONCE(rq->engine)->gt->rps;
            if (rps_uses_slpc(rps)) {
+            const struct i915_gem_context *ctx;
+
+            ctx = i915_request_gem_context(rq);
+            if (ctx &&
+                test_bit(UCONTEXT_COMPUTE, &ctx->user_flags))
+                return;
+

I think request and intel_context do not own a strong
reference to GEM
context. So at minimum you need a local one obtained
under a RCU lock with
kref_get_unless_zero, as do some other places do.

However.. it may be simpler to just store the flag in
intel_context->flags.
If you carry it over at the time GEM context is assigned
to intel_context,
not only you simplify runtime rules, but you get the
ability to not set the
compute flags for video etc.

+1 on the intel_context->flags


It may even make sense to add a "don't waitboost" flag
on top of the "is
compute" so this call site becomes self-documenting
(otherwise I ask to add
a comment here please). Then you could even move it out from the SLPC
special case.

+1 on the dont_waitboost flag as well. might be worth for other cases
like display metrics for instance.

We could define another disable_waitboost flag in intel_context, but
seems redundant if we already have this info in the gem_context. We
don't need to check for SLPC special case, just need to check this
flag as we won't enable it for the non-slpc case anyways.

Thanks,

Vinay.



                slpc = rps_to_slpc(rps);
                if (slpc->min_freq_softlimit >= slpc->boost_freq)
diff --git
a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h
index 811add10c30d..c34674e797c6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/abi/guc_actions_slpc_abi.h
@@ -207,6 +207,27 @@ struct slpc_shared_data {
        u8 reserved_mode_definition[4096];
    } __packed;
+struct slpc_context_frequency_request {
+    u32 frequency_request:16;
+    u32 reserved:12;
+    u32 is_compute:1;
+    u32 ignore_busyness:1;
+    u32 is_minimum:1;
+    u32 is_predefined:1;
+} __packed;
+
+#define SLPC_CTX_FREQ_REQ_IS_COMPUTE        REG_BIT(28)
+
+struct slpc_optimized_strategies {
+    u32 compute:1;
+    u32 async_flip:1;
+    u32 media:1;
+    u32 vsync_flip:1;
+    u32 reserved:28;
+} __packed;
+
+#define SLPC_OPTIMIZED_STRATEGY_COMPUTE REG_BIT(0)
+
    /**
     * DOC: SLPC H2G MESSAGE FORMAT
     *
diff --git
a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.c
index 3e681ab6fbf9..706fffca698b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.c
@@ -537,6 +537,20 @@ int
intel_guc_slpc_get_min_freq(struct intel_guc_slpc
*slpc, u32 *val)
        return ret;
    }
+int intel_guc_slpc_set_strategy(struct
intel_guc_slpc *slpc, u32 val)
+{
+    struct drm_i915_private *i915 = slpc_to_i915(slpc);
+    intel_wakeref_t wakeref;
+    int ret = 0;
+
+    with_intel_runtime_pm(&i915->runtime_pm, wakeref)
+        ret = slpc_set_param(slpc,
+                     SLPC_PARAM_STRATEGIES,
+                     val);
+
+    return ret;
+}
+
    int intel_guc_slpc_set_media_ratio_mode(struct
intel_guc_slpc *slpc, u32 val)
    {
        struct drm_i915_private *i915 = slpc_to_i915(slpc);
@@ -711,6 +725,9 @@ int intel_guc_slpc_enable(struct
intel_guc_slpc *slpc)
        /* Set cached media freq ratio mode */
        intel_guc_slpc_set_media_ratio_mode(slpc,
slpc->media_ratio_mode);
+    /* Enable SLPC Optimized Strategy for compute */
+    intel_guc_slpc_set_strategy(slpc,
SLPC_OPTIMIZED_STRATEGY_COMPUTE);
+
        return 0;
    }
diff --git
a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.h
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.h
index 6ac6503c39d4..1cb5fd44f05c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_slpc.h
@@ -45,5 +45,6 @@ void
intel_guc_pm_intrmsk_enable(struct intel_gt *gt);
    void intel_guc_slpc_boost(struct intel_guc_slpc *slpc);
    void intel_guc_slpc_dec_waiters(struct intel_guc_slpc *slpc);
    int intel_guc_slpc_set_ignore_eff_freq(struct
intel_guc_slpc *slpc, bool val);
+int intel_guc_slpc_set_strategy(struct
intel_guc_slpc *slpc, u32 val);
    #endif
diff --git
a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
index f3dcae4b9d45..bbabfa5532e5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_submission.c
@@ -2645,6 +2645,7 @@
MAKE_CONTEXT_POLICY_ADD(execution_quantum,
EXECUTION_QUANTUM)
    MAKE_CONTEXT_POLICY_ADD(preemption_timeout, PREEMPTION_TIMEOUT)
    MAKE_CONTEXT_POLICY_ADD(priority, SCHEDULING_PRIORITY)
    MAKE_CONTEXT_POLICY_ADD(preempt_to_idle,
PREEMPT_TO_IDLE_ON_QUANTUM_EXPIRY)
+MAKE_CONTEXT_POLICY_ADD(slpc_ctx_freq_req, SLPM_GT_FREQUENCY)
    #undef MAKE_CONTEXT_POLICY_ADD
@@ -2662,8 +2663,10 @@ static int
guc_context_policy_init_v70(struct intel_context
*ce, bool loop)
        struct intel_engine_cs *engine = ce->engine;
        struct intel_guc *guc = &engine->gt->uc.guc;
        struct context_policy policy;
+    struct i915_gem_context *ctx =
rcu_dereference(ce->gem_context);
        u32 execution_quantum;
        u32 preemption_timeout;
+    u32 slpc_ctx_freq_req = 0;
        unsigned long flags;
        int ret;
@@ -2675,11 +2678,15 @@ static int
guc_context_policy_init_v70(struct intel_context
*ce, bool loop)
        execution_quantum =
engine->props.timeslice_duration_ms * 1000;
        preemption_timeout = engine->props.preempt_timeout_ms * 1000;
+    if (ctx && (ctx->user_flags & BIT(UCONTEXT_COMPUTE)))
+        slpc_ctx_freq_req |= SLPC_CTX_FREQ_REQ_IS_COMPUTE;
+
        __guc_context_policy_start_klv(&policy, ce->guc_id.id);
        __guc_context_policy_add_priority(&policy,
ce->guc_state.prio);
__guc_context_policy_add_execution_quantum(&policy,
execution_quantum);
__guc_context_policy_add_preemption_timeout(&policy,
preemption_timeout);
+
__guc_context_policy_add_slpc_ctx_freq_req(&policy,
slpc_ctx_freq_req);
        if (engine->flags & I915_ENGINE_WANT_FORCED_PREEMPTION)
__guc_context_policy_add_preempt_to_idle(&policy, 1);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_getparam.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_getparam.c
index 5c3fec63cb4c..0f12e36b2a12 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_getparam.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_getparam.c
@@ -155,6 +155,17 @@ int i915_getparam_ioctl(struct
drm_device *dev, void *data,
             */
            value = 1;
            break;
+    case I915_PARAM_HAS_COMPUTE_CONTEXT:
+        /* This feature has been available in GuC for a while but
+         * a use case now required the use of this feature. We
+         * return true now since this is now being supported from
+         * the kernel side as well.
+         */

Nit - stick to the multi-line comment style i915 uses please.

Regards,

Tvrtko

+        if (intel_uc_uses_guc_submission(&to_gt(i915)->uc))
+            value = 1;
+        else
+            value = -EINVAL;
+        break;
        case I915_PARAM_HAS_CONTEXT_ISOLATION:
            value = intel_engines_has_context_isolation(i915);
            break;
diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
index 2ee338860b7e..1bd12f536108 100644
--- a/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
@@ -806,6 +806,12 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_irq_wait {
     */
    #define I915_PARAM_PXP_STATUS         58
+/*
+ * Query if kernel allows marking a context as a
Compute context. This will
+ * result in more aggressive GT frequency ramping for this context.
+ */
+#define I915_PARAM_HAS_COMPUTE_CONTEXT 59
+
    /* Must be kept compact -- no holes and well documented */
    /**
@@ -2148,6 +2154,15 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_context_param {
     * -EIO: The firmware did not succeed in creating
the protected context.
     */
    #define I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_PROTECTED_CONTENT    0xd
+
+/*
+ * I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_IS_COMPUTE:
+ *
+ * Mark this context as a Compute related workload
which requires aggressive GT
+ * frequency scaling. Query
I915_PARAM_HAS_CONTEXT_COMPUTE to check if the
kernel
+ * supports this functionality.
+ */
+#define I915_CONTEXT_PARAM_IS_COMPUTE        0xe
    /* Must be kept compact -- no holes and well documented */
        /** @value: Context parameter value to be set or queried */



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