From: Umesh Nerlige Ramappa <umesh.nerlige.ramappa@intel.com>
To: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Cc: "Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>,
Intel GFX <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Maling list - DRI developers <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] i915/query: Correlate engine and cpu timestamps with better accuracy
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:19:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210501021959.GA50683@orsosgc001.ra.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <179255a3b48.2817.c6988b7ea6112e3e892765a0d4287e0c@jlekstrand.net>
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 07:35:41PM -0500, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> On April 30, 2021 18:00:58 "Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:26:09 -0700, Umesh Nerlige Ramappa wrote:
>
> Looks like the engine can be dropped since all timestamps are in sync.
> I
> just have one more question here. The timestamp itself is 36 bits.
> Should
> the uapi also report the timestamp width to the user OR should I just
> return the lower 32 bits of the timestamp?
>
> Yeah, I think reporting the timestamp width is a good idea since we're
> reporting the period/frequency here.
Actually, I forgot that we are handling the overflow before returning
the cs_cycles to the user and overflow handling was the only reason I
thought user should know the width. Would you stil recommend returning
the width in the uapi?
Thanks,
Umesh
>
> How would exposing only the lower 32 bits of the timestamp work?
> The way to avoid exposing the width would be to expose the timestamp as
> a
> regular 64 bit value. In the kernel engine state, have a variable for
> the
> counter and keep on accumulating that (on each query) to full 64 bits in
> spite of the 36 bit HW counter overflow.
>
> That's doesn't actually work since you can query the 64-bit timestamp
> value from the GPU. The way this is handled in Vulkan is that the number
> of timestamp bits is reported to the application as a queue property.
> --Jason
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-29 0:34 [PATCH 0/1] Add support for querying engine cycles Umesh Nerlige Ramappa
2021-04-29 0:34 ` [PATCH 1/1] i915/query: Correlate engine and cpu timestamps with better accuracy Umesh Nerlige Ramappa
2021-04-29 8:34 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2021-04-29 19:07 ` Jason Ekstrand
2021-04-30 22:26 ` Umesh Nerlige Ramappa
2021-04-30 23:00 ` Dixit, Ashutosh
2021-04-30 23:23 ` Dixit, Ashutosh
2021-05-01 0:35 ` Jason Ekstrand
2021-05-01 2:19 ` Umesh Nerlige Ramappa [this message]
2021-05-01 4:01 ` Dixit, Ashutosh
2021-05-01 15:27 ` Jason Ekstrand
2021-05-03 18:29 ` Umesh Nerlige Ramappa
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2021-05-04 0:12 [PATCH 0/1] Add support for querying engine cycles Umesh Nerlige Ramappa
2021-05-04 0:12 ` [PATCH 1/1] i915/query: Correlate engine and cpu timestamps with better accuracy Umesh Nerlige Ramappa
[not found] <20210427214913.46956-1-umesh.nerlige.ramappa@intel.com>
[not found] ` <20210427214913.46956-2-umesh.nerlige.ramappa@intel.com>
2021-04-28 8:43 ` Jani Nikula
2021-04-28 19:24 ` Jason Ekstrand
2021-04-28 19:49 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2021-04-28 19:54 ` Jason Ekstrand
2021-04-28 20:14 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2021-04-28 20:16 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2021-04-28 20:45 ` Jason Ekstrand
2021-04-28 21:18 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2021-04-29 11:15 ` Daniel Vetter
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