On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 12:13 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 11:33:46AM -0400, Kenny Ho wrote: > > On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 4:59 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Hm I missed that. I feel like time-sliced-of-a-whole gpu is the easier gpu > > > cgroups controler to get started, since it's much closer to other cgroups > > > that control bandwidth of some kind. Whether it's i/o bandwidth or compute > > > bandwidht is kinda a wash. > > sriov/time-sliced-of-a-whole gpu does not really need a cgroup > > interface since each slice appears as a stand alone device. This is > > already in production (not using cgroup) with users. The cgroup > > proposal has always been parallel to that in many sense: 1) spatial > > partitioning as an independent but equally valid use case as time > > sharing, 2) sub-device resource control as opposed to full device > > control motivated by the workload characterization paper. It was > > never about time vs space in terms of use cases but having new API for > > users to be able to do spatial subdevice partitioning. > > > > > CU mask feels a lot more like an isolation/guaranteed forward progress > > > kind of thing, and I suspect that's always going to be a lot more gpu hw > > > specific than anything we can reasonably put into a general cgroups > > > controller. > > The first half is correct but I disagree with the conclusion. The > > analogy I would use is multi-core CPU. The capability of individual > > CPU cores, core count and core arrangement may be hw specific but > > there are general interfaces to support selection of these cores. CU > > mask may be hw specific but spatial partitioning as an idea is not. > > Most gpu vendors have the concept of sub-device compute units (EU, SE, > > etc.); OpenCL has the concept of subdevice in the language. I don't > > see any obstacle for vendors to implement spatial partitioning just > > like many CPU vendors support the idea of multi-core. > > > > > Also for the time slice cgroups thing, can you pls give me pointers to > > > these old patches that had it, and how it's done? I very obviously missed > > > that part. > > I think you misunderstood what I wrote earlier. The original proposal > > was about spatial partitioning of subdevice resources not time sharing > > using cgroup (since time sharing is already supported elsewhere.) > > Well SRIOV time-sharing is for virtualization. cgroups is for > containerization, which is just virtualization but with less overhead and > more security bugs. > > More or less. > > So either I get things still wrong, or we'll get time-sharing for > virtualization, and partitioning of CU for containerization. That doesn't > make that much sense to me. You could still potentially do SR-IOV for containerization. You'd just pass one of the PCI VFs (virtual functions) to the container and you'd automatically get the time slice. I don't see why cgroups would be a factor there. Alex > > Since time-sharing is the first thing that's done for virtualization I > think it's probably also the most reasonable to start with for containers. > -Daniel > -- > Daniel Vetter > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > http://blog.ffwll.ch > _______________________________________________ > amd-gfx mailing list > amd-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx
