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* [RFC 00/10] i915 pvmmio to improve GVTg performance
@ 2018-09-27 16:37 Xiaolin Zhang
  2018-09-27  7:20 ` ✗ Fi.CI.CHECKPATCH: warning for " Patchwork
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  0 siblings, 15 replies; 28+ messages in thread
From: Xiaolin Zhang @ 2018-09-27 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: intel-gvt-dev, intel-gfx
  Cc: zhenyu.z.wang, hang.yuan, joonas.lahtinen, fei.jiang, zhiyuan.lv

To improve GVTg performance, it could reduce the mmio access trap
numbers within guest driver in some certain scenarios since mmio
access trap will introuduce vm exit/vm enter cost.

the solution in this patch set is to setup a shared memory region
which accessed both by guest and GVTg without trap cost. the shared
memory region is allocated by guest driver and guest driver will
pass the region's memory guest physical address to GVTg through
PVINFO register and later GVTg can access this region directly without
trap cost to achieve data exchange purpose between guest and GVTg.

in this patch set, 3 kind of pvmmio optimization implemented which is
controlled by enable_pvmmio PVINO register with different level flag.
1. workload submission (context submission): reduce 4 traps to 1 trap.
2. master irq: reduce 2 traps to 1 trap. 
3. ppgtt update: eliminate the cost of ppgtt write protection. 

based on the experiment, the performance was gained 4 percent (average)
improvment with regard to both media and 3D workload benchmarks. 

based on the pvmmio framework, it could achive more sceneario optimization
such as globle GTT update, display plane and water mark update with guest.

Xiaolin Zhang (10):
  drm/i915/gvt: add module parameter enable_pvmmio
  drm/i915/gvt: get ready of memory for pvmmio
  drm/i915/gvt: context submission pvmmio optimization
  drm/i915/gvt: master irq pvmmio optimization
  drm/i915/gvt: ppgtt update pvmmio optimization
  drm/i915/gvt: GVTg handle enable_pvmmio PVINFO register
  drm/i915/gvt: GVTg read_shared_page implementation
  drm/i915/gvt: GVTg support context submission pvmmio optimization
  drm/i915/gvt: GVTg support master irq pvmmio optimization
  drm/i915/gvt: GVTg support ppgtt pvmmio optimization

 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gtt.c       | 318 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gtt.h       |   9 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h       |   4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c  |  44 ++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/interrupt.c |  17 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/vgpu.c      |  20 +++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c      |   5 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h      |   6 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c  |  36 ++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c      |  29 +++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c   |   4 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h   |   4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pvinfo.h   |  43 ++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_vgpu.c     |  29 +++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c     |  37 +++-
 15 files changed, 588 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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2018-09-27 16:37 [RFC 00/10] i915 pvmmio to improve GVTg performance Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27  7:20 ` ✗ Fi.CI.CHECKPATCH: warning for " Patchwork
2018-09-27  7:24 ` ✗ Fi.CI.SPARSE: " Patchwork
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2018-09-27 11:07 ` [RFC 00/10] " Joonas Lahtinen
2018-09-28  6:11   ` Zhang, Xiaolin
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 01/10] drm/i915/gvt: add module parameter enable_pvmmio Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27  7:16   ` Chris Wilson
2018-09-27 11:03   ` Joonas Lahtinen
2018-09-28  6:09     ` Zhang, Xiaolin
2018-10-09  2:26       ` Zhenyu Wang
2018-10-10  6:48         ` Zhang, Xiaolin
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 02/10] drm/i915/gvt: get ready of memory for pvmmio Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27  7:17   ` Chris Wilson
2018-09-28  7:31     ` Zhang, Xiaolin
2018-10-09  2:31   ` Zhenyu Wang
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 03/10] drm/i915/gvt: context submission pvmmio optimization Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27  7:19   ` Chris Wilson
2018-09-28  5:31     ` Zhang, Xiaolin
2018-09-27 11:13   ` Joonas Lahtinen
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 04/10] drm/i915/gvt: master irq " Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 05/10] drm/i915/gvt: ppgtt update " Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 06/10] drm/i915/gvt: GVTg handle enable_pvmmio PVINFO register Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 07/10] drm/i915/gvt: GVTg read_shared_page implementation Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 08/10] drm/i915/gvt: GVTg support context submission pvmmio optimization Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 09/10] drm/i915/gvt: GVTg support master irq " Xiaolin Zhang
2018-09-27 16:37 ` [RFC 10/10] drm/i915/gvt: GVTg support ppgtt " Xiaolin Zhang

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