On 08/03/16 09:43, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
On 02/03/16 15:40, Dave Gordon wrote:
On 02/03/16 12:08, Chris Wilson wrote:
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 04:33:58PM +0000, Dave Gordon wrote:
This is essentially Chris Wilson's patch of a similar name, reworked on
top of Alex Dai's recent patch:
| drm/i915: Add i915_gem_object_vmap to map GEM object to virtual space
Chris' original commentary said:
| We now have two implementations for vmapping a whole object, one for
| dma-buf and one for the ringbuffer. If we couple the vmapping into
| the obj->pages lifetime, then we can reuse an obj->vmapping for both
| and at the same time couple it into the shrinker.
|
| v2: Mark the failable kmalloc() as __GFP_NOWARN (vsyrjala)
| v3: Call unpin_vmap from the right dmabuf unmapper
v4: reimplements the same functionality, but now as wrappers round the
recently-introduced i915_gem_object_vmap_range() from Alex's patch
mentioned above.
v5: separated from two minor but unrelated changes [Tvrtko Ursulin];
this is the third and most substantial portion.
Decided not to hold onto vmappings after the pin count goes to
zero.
This may reduce the benefit of Chris' scheme a bit, but does avoid
any increased risk of exhausting kernel vmap space on 32-bit
kernels
[Tvrtko Ursulin]. Potentially, the vunmap() could be deferred
until
the put_pages() stage if a suitable notifier were written, but
we're
not doing that here. Nonetheless, the simplification of both
dmabuf
and ringbuffer code makes it worthwhile in its own right.
v6: change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON(). [Tvrtko Ursulin]
Signed-off-by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Dai <yu.dai@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 22 ++++++++++++++-----
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 39
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_dmabuf.c | 36
++++--------------------------
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c | 9 ++++----
4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index b3ae191..f1ad3b3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -2172,10 +2172,7 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_object {
struct scatterlist *sg;
int last;
} get_page;
-
- /* prime dma-buf support */
- void *dma_buf_vmapping;
- int vmapping_count;
+ void *vmapping;
/** Breadcrumb of last rendering to the buffer.
* There can only be one writer, but we allow for multiple
readers.
@@ -2980,7 +2977,22 @@ static inline void
i915_gem_object_pin_pages(struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
static inline void i915_gem_object_unpin_pages(struct
drm_i915_gem_object *obj)
{
BUG_ON(obj->pages_pin_count == 0);
- obj->pages_pin_count--;
+ if (--obj->pages_pin_count == 0 && obj->vmapping) {
+ /*
+ * Releasing the vmapping here may yield less benefit than
+ * if we kept it until put_pages(), but on the other hand
Yields no benefit. Makes the patch pointless.
Plus there is also pressure to enable WC vmaps.
-Chris
The patch is not pointless -- at the very least, it:
+ reduces the size of "struct drm_i915_gem_object" (OK, only by 4 bytes)
+ replaces special-function code for dmabufs with more generic code that
can be reused for other objects (for now, ringbuffers; next GuC-shared
objects -- see Alex's patch "drm/i915/guc: Simplify code by keeping vmap
of guc_client object" which will eliminate lot of short-term
kmap_atomics with persistent kmaps).
+ provides a shorthand for the sequence of { get_pages(), pin_pages(),
vmap() } so we don't have to open-code it (and deal with all the error
paths) in several different places
Thus there is an engineering benefit even if this version doesn't
provide any performance benefit. And if, as the next step, you want to
extend the vmap lifetime, you just have to remove those few lines in
i915_gem_object_unpin_pages() and incorporate the notifier that you
prototyped earlier -- if it actually provides any performance boost.
So Chris do you ack on this series on the basis of the above - that it
consolidates the current code and following GuC patch will be another
user of the pin_vmap API?
Regards,
Tvrtko
I see that Chris has posted a patch to add a vmap notifier, although it
hasn't yet got its R-B. So I suggest we merge this patch series now, and
then update it by moving the vunmap() into put_pages() when Chris has
the notifier finalised. IIRC you wanted Daniel to merge the new DRM bits
(patches 3 and 7, which already have their R-Bs) ?
Or we can merge 1-5+7, all of which already have R-Bs, and I can turn
6 into a GuC-private version, without the benefit of simplifying and
unifying the corresponding object-mapping management in the DMAbuf and
ringbuffer code.
Or I can repost just the bits that don't rely on drm_malloc_gfp() and
exclude the final patch so that we can move ahead on the bits we
actually want for improving the performance of the GuC interface and
reducing the number of kmap_atomic calls elsewhere, and then the omitted
bits can be added back once drm_malloc_gfp() has been merged upstream
and the notifier is working.
.Dave.
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