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From: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, "Zeng, Oak" <oak.zeng@intel.com>
Cc: "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	 "intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"Brost, Matthew" <matthew.brost@intel.com>,
	 "Welty, Brian" <brian.welty@intel.com>,
	"Ghimiray, Himal Prasad" <himal.prasad.ghimiray@intel.com>,
	"Bommu, Krishnaiah" <krishnaiah.bommu@intel.com>,
	"Vishwanathapura,
	Niranjana" <niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/23] drm/xe/svm: Introduce a helper to build sg table from hmm range
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:55:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65cb3984309d377d6e7d57cb6567473c8a83ed78.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240425010520.GW941030@nvidia.com>

Hi, Jason.

I've quickly read through the discussion here and have a couple of
questions and clarifications to hopefully help moving forward on
aligning on an approach for this.

Let's for simplicity initially ignore migration and assume this is on
integrated hardware since it seems like it's around the
hmm_range_fault() usage there is a disconnect.

First, the gpu_vma structure is something that partitions the gpu_vm
that holds gpu-related range metadata, like what to mirror, desired gpu
caching policies etc. These are managed (created, removed and split)
mainly from user-space. These are stored and looked up from an rb-tree.

Each such mirroring gpu_vma holds an mmu_interval notifier.

For invalidation only purposes, the mmu_interval seqno is not tracked.
An invalidation thus only zaps page-table entries, causing subsequent
accesses to fault. Hence for this purpose, having a single notifier
that covers a huge range is desirable and does not become a problem.

Now, when we hit a fault, we want to use hmm_range_fault() to re-
populate the faulting PTE, but also to pre-fault a range. Using a range
here (let's call this a prefault range for clarity) rather than to
insert a single PTE is for multiple reasons:

1) avoid subsequent adjacent faults
2a) Using huge GPU page-table entries.
2b) Updating the GPU page-table (tree-based and multi-level) becomes
more efficient when using a range.

Here, depending on hardware, 2a might be more or less crucial for GPU
performance. 2b somewhat ties into 2a but otherwise does not affect gpu
performance.

This is why we've been using dma_map_sg() for these ranges, since it is
assumed the benefits gained from 2) above by far outweighs any benefit
from finer-granularity dma-mappings on the rarer occasion of faults.
Are there other benefits from single-page dma mappings that you think
we need to consider here?

Second, when pre-faulting a range like this, the mmu interval notifier
seqno comes into play, until the gpu ptes for the prefault range are
safely in place. Now if an invalidation happens in a completely
separate part of the mirror range, it will bump the seqno and force us
to rerun the fault processing unnecessarily. Hence, for this purpose we
ideally just want to get a seqno bump covering the prefault range.
That's why finer-granularity mmu_interval notifiers might be beneficial
(and then cached for future re-use of the same prefault range). This
leads me to the next question:

You mention that mmu_notifiers are expensive to register. From looking
at the code it seems *mmu_interval* notifiers are cheap unless there
are ongoing invalidations in which case using a gpu_vma-wide notifier
would block anyway? Could you clarify a bit more the cost involved
here? If we don't register these smaller-range interval notifiers, do
you think the seqno bumps from unrelated subranges would be a real
problem?

Finally the size of the pre-faulting range is something we need to
tune. Currently it is cpu vma - wide. I understand you strongly suggest
this should be avoided. Could you elaborate a bit on why this is such a
bad choice?

Thanks,
Thomas



  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-26  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 123+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-17 22:12 [PATCH 00/23] XeKmd basic SVM support Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 01/23] drm/xe/svm: Add SVM document Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 02/23] drm/xe/svm: Add svm key data structures Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 03/23] drm/xe/svm: create xe svm during vm creation Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 04/23] drm/xe/svm: Trace svm creation Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 05/23] drm/xe/svm: add helper to retrieve svm range from address Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 06/23] drm/xe/svm: Introduce a helper to build sg table from hmm range Oak Zeng
2024-04-05  0:39   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-05  3:33     ` Zeng, Oak
2024-04-05 12:37       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-05 16:42         ` Zeng, Oak
2024-04-05 18:02           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-09 16:45             ` Zeng, Oak
2024-04-09 17:24               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-23 21:17                 ` Zeng, Oak
2024-04-24  2:31                   ` Matthew Brost
2024-04-24 13:57                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 16:35                       ` Matthew Brost
2024-04-24 16:44                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 16:56                           ` Matthew Brost
2024-04-24 17:48                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 13:48                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 23:59                     ` Zeng, Oak
2024-04-25  1:05                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-26  9:55                         ` Thomas Hellström [this message]
2024-04-26 12:00                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-26 14:49                             ` Thomas Hellström
2024-04-26 16:35                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-29  8:25                                 ` Thomas Hellström
2024-04-30 17:30                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-30 18:57                                     ` Daniel Vetter
2024-05-01  0:09                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-02  8:04                                         ` Daniel Vetter
2024-05-02  9:11                                           ` Thomas Hellström
2024-05-02 12:46                                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-02 15:01                                               ` Thomas Hellström
2024-05-02 19:25                                                 ` Zeng, Oak
2024-05-03 13:37                                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-03 14:43                                                     ` Zeng, Oak
2024-05-03 16:28                                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-03 20:29                                                         ` Zeng, Oak
2024-05-04  1:03                                                           ` Dave Airlie
2024-05-06 13:04                                                             ` Daniel Vetter
2024-05-06 23:50                                                               ` Matthew Brost
2024-05-07 11:56                                                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-06 13:33                                                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-09 17:33               ` Matthew Brost
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 07/23] drm/xe/svm: Add helper for binding hmm range to gpu Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 08/23] drm/xe/svm: Add helper to invalidate svm range from GPU Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 09/23] drm/xe/svm: Remap and provide memmap backing for GPU vram Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 10/23] drm/xe/svm: Introduce svm migration function Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 11/23] drm/xe/svm: implement functions to allocate and free device memory Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 12/23] drm/xe/svm: Trace buddy block allocation and free Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 13/23] drm/xe/svm: Handle CPU page fault Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 14/23] drm/xe/svm: trace svm range migration Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 15/23] drm/xe/svm: Implement functions to register and unregister mmu notifier Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 16/23] drm/xe/svm: Implement the mmu notifier range invalidate callback Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 17/23] drm/xe/svm: clean up svm range during process exit Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 18/23] drm/xe/svm: Move a few structures to xe_gt.h Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 19/23] drm/xe/svm: migrate svm range to vram Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 20/23] drm/xe/svm: Populate svm range Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 21/23] drm/xe/svm: GPU page fault support Oak Zeng
2024-01-23  2:06   ` Welty, Brian
2024-01-23  3:09     ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-23  3:21       ` Making drm_gpuvm work across gpu devices Zeng, Oak
2024-01-23 11:13         ` Christian König
2024-01-23 19:37           ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-23 20:17             ` Felix Kuehling
2024-01-25  1:39               ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-23 23:56             ` Danilo Krummrich
2024-01-24  3:57               ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-24  4:14                 ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-24  6:48                   ` Christian König
2024-01-25 22:13                 ` Danilo Krummrich
2024-01-24  8:33             ` Christian König
2024-01-25  1:17               ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-25  1:25                 ` David Airlie
2024-01-25  5:25                   ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-26 10:09                     ` Christian König
2024-01-26 20:13                       ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-29 10:10                         ` Christian König
2024-01-29 20:09                           ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-25 11:00                 ` 回复:Making " 周春明(日月)
2024-01-25 17:00                   ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-25 17:15                 ` Making " Felix Kuehling
2024-01-25 18:37                   ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-26 13:23                     ` Christian König
2024-01-25 16:42               ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-25 18:32               ` Daniel Vetter
2024-01-25 21:02                 ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-26  8:21                 ` Thomas Hellström
2024-01-26 12:52                   ` Christian König
2024-01-27  2:21                     ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-29 10:19                       ` Christian König
2024-01-30  0:21                         ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-30  8:39                           ` Christian König
2024-01-30 22:29                             ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-30 23:12                               ` David Airlie
2024-01-31  9:15                                 ` Daniel Vetter
2024-01-31 20:17                                   ` Zeng, Oak
2024-01-31 20:59                                     ` Zeng, Oak
2024-02-01  8:52                                     ` Christian König
2024-02-29 18:22                                       ` Zeng, Oak
2024-03-08  4:43                                         ` Zeng, Oak
2024-03-08 10:07                                           ` Christian König
2024-01-30  8:43                           ` Thomas Hellström
2024-01-29 15:03                 ` Felix Kuehling
2024-01-29 15:33                   ` Christian König
2024-01-29 16:24                     ` Felix Kuehling
2024-01-29 16:28                       ` Christian König
2024-01-29 17:52                         ` Felix Kuehling
2024-01-29 19:03                           ` Christian König
2024-01-29 20:24                             ` Felix Kuehling
2024-02-23 20:12               ` Zeng, Oak
2024-02-27  6:54                 ` Christian König
2024-02-27 15:58                   ` Zeng, Oak
2024-02-28 19:51                     ` Zeng, Oak
2024-02-29  9:41                       ` Christian König
2024-02-29 16:05                         ` Zeng, Oak
2024-02-29 17:12                         ` Thomas Hellström
2024-03-01  7:01                           ` Christian König
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 22/23] drm/xe/svm: Add DRM_XE_SVM kernel config entry Oak Zeng
2024-01-17 22:12 ` [PATCH 23/23] drm/xe/svm: Add svm memory hints interface Oak Zeng

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