From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AABCBC433F5 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 15:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4EA10EAA4; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 15:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 779BC10EAA4; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 15:16:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1649344600; x=1680880600; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding; bh=+i/7zzqd9Ay0apEMQRx9PMLILj5GG2gzw51R9zgbS7I=; b=kPDiyiU1MQetll8IyzI1Iq29m3KGE44q5QtIp1wM+qR/5LxyFbunmPGg 61/+17XLpDgAF5xY/fXneTueHR+Ic8vTqG5rvSy7NEXH6EQrPMqg9JiHA 2Avd3bw8eyXEzACy5qTVX+PnsVvHkxhjK2c5bef7H6MyHW9gNxHy6rr9T xiEhEdwsOcOrAdNE4D4wjAx2YTZcL/5P09sFE6nMxqQfffHW2RygJjG5o fuKAmkctuItekI30zsnun2s4UAMLYOL4kPBLUawQPsXC7DB98/TEy5646 5lyPqx3PN+eVafQu+S1Rl9FAIka1D1jEiDQhOyOaWjedhBqihQijGtT34 w==; X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6400,9594,10310"; a="324512336" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,242,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="324512336" Received: from orsmga006.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.51]) by orsmga105.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 07 Apr 2022 08:16:39 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,242,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="524962793" Received: from twsparks-mobl1.amr.corp.intel.com (HELO tursulin-mobl2.home) ([10.212.41.19]) by orsmga006-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 07 Apr 2022 08:16:38 -0700 From: Tvrtko Ursulin To: Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: [PATCH 0/1] Inherit GPU scheduling priority from process nice Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 16:16:26 +0100 Message-Id: <20220407151627.3387655-1-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.32.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Tvrtko Ursulin Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" From: Tvrtko Ursulin Current processing landscape seems to be more and more composed of pipelines where computations are done on multiple hardware devices. Furthermore some of the non-CPU devices, like in this case many GPUs supported by the i915 driver, actually support priority based scheduling which is currently rather inaccessible to the user (in terms of being able to control it from the outside). >From these two statements a question arises on how to allow for a simple, effective and consolidated user experience. In other words why user would not be able to do something like: $ nice ffmmpeg ...transcode my videos... $ my-favourite-game And have the nice hint apply to GPU parts of the transcode pipeline as well? This would in fact follow the approach taken by kernel's block scheduler where ionice is by default inherited from process nice. This series implements the same idea by inheriting context creator and batch buffer submitted nice value as context nice. To avoid influencing GPU scheduling aware clients this is done only one for contexts where userspace hasn't explicitly specified a non-default scheduling priority The approach is completely compatible with GuC and drm/scheduler since all support at least low/normal/high priority levels with just the granularity of available control differing. In other words with GuC scheduling there is no difference between nice 5 and 10, both would map to low priority, but the default case of positive or negative nice, versus nice 0, is still correctly propagated to the firmware scheduler. With the series applied I simulated the scenario of a background GPU task running simultaneously with an interactive client, varying the former's nice value. Simulating a non-interactive GPU background task was: vblank_mode=0 nice -n glxgears -geometry 1600x800 Interactive client was simulated with: gem_wsim -w ~/test.wsim -r 300 -v # (This one is self-capped at ~60fps.) These were the results on DG1, first with execlists (default): Background nice | Interactive FPS -------------------+-------------------- | 59 0 | 35 10 | 42 As we can see running the background load with nice 10 can somewhat help the performance of the interactive/foreground task. (Although to be noted is that without the fair scheduler completed there are possible starvation issues depending on the workload which cannot be fixed by this patch.) Now results with GuC (although it is not default on DG1): Background nice | Interactive FPS -------------------+-------------------- | 58 0 | 26 10 | 25 Unfortunately GuC is not showing any change (25 vs 26 is rounding/run error). But reverse mesurement with background client at nice 0 and foreground at nice -10 does give 40 FPS proving the priority adjustment does work. (Same reverse test gives 46 FPS with execlists). What is happening with GuC here is something to be looked at since it seems normal-vs-low GuC priority time slices differently than normal-vs-high. Normal does not seem to be preferred over low, in this test at least. v2: * Moved notifier outside task_rq_lock. * Some improvements and restructuring on the i915 side of the series. v3: * Dropped task nice notifier - inheriting nice on request submit time is good enough. v4: * Realisation came that this can be heavily simplified and only one simple patch is enough to achieve the desired behaviour. * Fixed the priority adjustment location to actually worked after rebase! * Re-done the benchmarking. Tvrtko Ursulin (1): drm/i915: Inherit submitter nice when scheduling requests drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.32.0