On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 08:29:30AM -0700, Sultan Alsawaf wrote:
> From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 4f88f8747fa43c97c3b3712d8d87295ea757cc51 upstream.
>
> The major drawback of commit 7e34f4e4aad3 ("drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX
> corruption WA") is that it disables RC6 while Skylake (and friends) is
> active, and we do not consider the GPU idle until all outstanding
> requests have been retired and the engine switched over to the kernel
> context. If userspace is idle, this task falls onto our background idle
> worker, which only runs roughly once a second, meaning that userspace has
> to have been idle for a couple of seconds before we enable RC6 again.
> Naturally, this causes us to consume considerably more energy than
> before as powersaving is effectively disabled while a display server
> (here's looking at you Xorg) is running.
>
> As execlists will get a completion event as each context is completed,
> we can use this interrupt to queue a retire worker bound to this engine
> to cleanup idle timelines. We will then immediately notice the idle
> engine (without userspace intervention or the aid of the background
> retire worker) and start parking the GPU. Thus during light workloads,
> we will do much more work to idle the GPU faster... Hopefully with
> commensurate power saving!
>
> v2: Watch context completions and only look at those local to the engine
> when retiring to reduce the amount of excess work we perform.
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112315
> References: 7e34f4e4aad3 ("drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA")
> References: 2248a28384fe ("drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA")
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191125105858.1718307-3-chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [Sultan: for the backport to 5.4, struct_mutex needs to be held while
> retiring so that retirement doesn't race with vma destruction.]
> Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c | 2 +
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h | 8 ++
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c | 8 ++
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c | 1 +
> .../gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline_types.h | 3 +
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h | 4 +
> 7 files changed, 101 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
> index 4ce8626b140e..f732a2177cd0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
> @@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ static int intel_engine_setup_common(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
> intel_engine_init_hangcheck(engine);
> intel_engine_init_cmd_parser(engine);
> intel_engine_init__pm(engine);
> + intel_engine_init_retire(engine);
>
> intel_engine_pool_init(&engine->pool);
>
> @@ -807,6 +808,7 @@ void intel_engine_cleanup_common(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
>
> cleanup_status_page(engine);
>
> + intel_engine_fini_retire(engine);
> intel_engine_pool_fini(&engine->pool);
> intel_engine_fini_breadcrumbs(engine);
> intel_engine_cleanup_cmd_parser(engine);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
> index c77c9518c58b..1eb7189f88e1 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_types.h
> @@ -471,6 +471,14 @@ struct intel_engine_cs {
>
> struct intel_engine_execlists execlists;
>
> + /*
> + * Keep track of completed timelines on this engine for early
> + * retirement with the goal of quickly enabling powersaving as
> + * soon as the engine is idle.
> + */
> + struct intel_timeline *retire;
> + struct work_struct retire_work;
> +
> /* status_notifier: list of callbacks for context-switch changes */
> struct atomic_notifier_head context_status_notifier;
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> index 66f6d1a897f2..a1538c8f7922 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
> @@ -606,6 +606,14 @@ __execlists_schedule_out(struct i915_request *rq,
> {
> struct intel_context * const ce = rq->hw_context;
>
> + /*
> + * If we have just completed this context, the engine may now be
> + * idle and we want to re-enter powersaving.
> + */
> + if (list_is_last(&rq->link, &ce->timeline->requests) &&
> + i915_request_completed(rq))
> + intel_engine_add_retire(engine, ce->timeline);
> +
> intel_engine_context_out(engine);
> execlists_context_status_change(rq, INTEL_CONTEXT_SCHEDULE_OUT);
> intel_gt_pm_put(engine->gt);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c
> index 9cb01d9828f1..63515e3caaf2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline.c
> @@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ void intel_timeline_fini(struct intel_timeline *timeline)
> {
> GEM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&timeline->pin_count));
> GEM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&timeline->requests));
> + GEM_BUG_ON(timeline->retire);
>
> if (timeline->hwsp_cacheline)
> cacheline_free(timeline->hwsp_cacheline);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline_types.h
> index 2b1baf2fcc8e..adf2d14ef647 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline_types.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_timeline_types.h
> @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct intel_timeline {
> */
> struct i915_active_request last_request;
>
> + /** A chain of completed timelines ready for early retirement. */
> + struct intel_timeline *retire;
> +
> /**
> * We track the most recent seqno that we wait on in every context so
> * that we only have to emit a new await and dependency on a more
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> index 0d39038898d4..35457fda350c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
> @@ -600,6 +600,81 @@ static void retire_requests(struct intel_timeline *tl)
> break;
> }
>
> +static void engine_retire(struct work_struct *work)
> +{
> + struct intel_engine_cs *engine =
> + container_of(work, typeof(*engine), retire_work);
> + struct intel_timeline *tl = xchg(&engine->retire, NULL);
> +
> + do {
> + struct intel_timeline *next = xchg(&tl->retire, NULL);
> +
> + /*
> + * Our goal here is to retire _idle_ timelines as soon as
> + * possible (as they are idle, we do not expect userspace
> + * to be cleaning up anytime soon).
> + *
> + * If the timeline is currently locked, either it is being
> + * retired elsewhere or about to be!
> + */
> + mutex_lock(&engine->i915->drm.struct_mutex);
> + if (mutex_trylock(&tl->mutex)) {
> + retire_requests(tl);
> + mutex_unlock(&tl->mutex);
> + }
> + mutex_unlock(&engine->i915->drm.struct_mutex);
> + intel_timeline_put(tl);
> +
> + GEM_BUG_ON(!next);
> + tl = ptr_mask_bits(next, 1);
> + } while (tl);
> +}
> +
> +static bool add_retire(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
> + struct intel_timeline *tl)
> +{
> + struct intel_timeline *first;
> +
> + /*
> + * We open-code a llist here to include the additional tag [BIT(0)]
> + * so that we know when the timeline is already on a
> + * retirement queue: either this engine or another.
> + *
> + * However, we rely on that a timeline can only be active on a single
> + * engine at any one time and that add_retire() is called before the
> + * engine releases the timeline and transferred to another to retire.
> + */
> +
> + if (READ_ONCE(tl->retire)) /* already queued */
> + return false;
> +
> + intel_timeline_get(tl);
> + first = READ_ONCE(engine->retire);
> + do
> + tl->retire = ptr_pack_bits(first, 1, 1);
> + while (!try_cmpxchg(&engine->retire, &first, tl));
> +
> + return !first;
> +}
> +
> +void intel_engine_add_retire(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
> + struct intel_timeline *tl)
> +{
> + if (add_retire(engine, tl))
> + schedule_work(&engine->retire_work);
> +}
> +
> +void intel_engine_init_retire(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
> +{
> + INIT_WORK(&engine->retire_work, engine_retire);
> +}
> +
> +void intel_engine_fini_retire(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
> +{
> + flush_work(&engine->retire_work);
> + GEM_BUG_ON(engine->retire);
> +}
> +
> static noinline struct i915_request *
> request_alloc_slow(struct intel_timeline *tl, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h
> index 3a3e7bbf19ff..40caa2f3f4a4 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h
> @@ -445,5 +445,9 @@ static inline bool i915_request_has_nopreempt(const struct i915_request *rq)
> }
>
> bool i915_retire_requests(struct drm_i915_private *i915);
> +void intel_engine_init_retire(struct intel_engine_cs *engine);
> +void intel_engine_add_retire(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
> + struct intel_timeline *tl);
> +void intel_engine_fini_retire(struct intel_engine_cs *engine);
>
> #endif /* I915_REQUEST_H */
> --
> 2.26.0
>
Greg,
Could you take another look at this please and let me know if looks good to
queue up?
Thanks,
Sultan
