From: "Thomas Hellström (Intel)" <thomas_os@shipmail.org>
To: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
"Daniel Vetter" <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
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Steve Pronovost <spronovo@microsoft.com>,
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Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>,
Jesse Natalie <jenatali@microsoft.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
Thomas Hellstrom <thomas.hellstrom@intel.com>,
Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>,
Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 1/2] dma-buf.rst: Document why indefinite fences are a bad idea
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:47:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57a5eb9d-b74f-8ce4-7199-94e911d9b68b@shipmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3603bb71-318b-eb53-0532-9daab62dce86@amd.com>
On 7/21/20 9:45 AM, Christian König wrote:
> Am 21.07.20 um 09:41 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:15:17PM +0200, Thomas Hellström (Intel)
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 7/9/20 2:33 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>>> Comes up every few years, gets somewhat tedious to discuss, let's
>>>> write this down once and for all.
>>>>
>>>> What I'm not sure about is whether the text should be more explicit in
>>>> flat out mandating the amdkfd eviction fences for long running compute
>>>> workloads or workloads where userspace fencing is allowed.
>>> Although (in my humble opinion) it might be possible to completely
>>> untangle
>>> kernel-introduced fences for resource management and dma-fences used
>>> for
>>> completion- and dependency tracking and lift a lot of restrictions
>>> for the
>>> dma-fences, including prohibiting infinite ones, I think this makes
>>> sense
>>> describing the current state.
>> Yeah I think a future patch needs to type up how we want to make that
>> happen (for some cross driver consistency) and what needs to be
>> considered. Some of the necessary parts are already there (with like the
>> preemption fences amdkfd has as an example), but I think some clear docs
>> on what's required from both hw, drivers and userspace would be really
>> good.
>
> I'm currently writing that up, but probably still need a few days for
> this.
Great! I put down some (very) initial thoughts a couple of weeks ago
building on eviction fences for various hardware complexity levels here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/thomash/docs/-/blob/master/Untangling%20dma-fence%20and%20memory%20allocation.odt
/Thomas
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2020-07-07 20:12 [PATCH 00/25] dma-fence annotations, round 3 Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 01/25] dma-fence: basic lockdep annotations Daniel Vetter
2020-07-08 14:57 ` Christian König
2020-07-08 15:12 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-08 15:19 ` Alex Deucher
2020-07-08 15:37 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-14 11:09 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-09 7:32 ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Stone
2020-07-09 7:52 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-13 16:26 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-13 16:39 ` Christian König
2020-07-13 20:31 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 02/25] dma-fence: prime " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-09 8:09 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-10 12:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-10 12:48 ` Christian König
2020-07-10 12:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-10 13:01 ` Christian König
2020-07-10 13:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-10 14:02 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-10 14:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-10 20:02 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 03/25] dma-buf.rst: Document why idenfinite fences are a bad idea Daniel Vetter
2020-07-09 7:36 ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Stone
2020-07-09 8:04 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-09 12:11 ` Daniel Stone
2020-07-09 12:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-09 14:28 ` Christian König
2020-07-09 11:53 ` Christian König
2020-07-09 12:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] dma-buf.rst: Document why indefinite " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-09 12:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm/virtio: Remove open-coded commit-tail function Daniel Vetter
2020-07-09 12:48 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-07-09 14:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2020-07-14 9:13 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-08-19 12:43 ` Jiri Slaby
2020-08-19 12:47 ` Jiri Slaby
2020-08-19 13:24 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-08-20 6:32 ` Jiri Slaby
2020-08-21 7:01 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-07-10 12:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] dma-buf.rst: Document why indefinite fences are a bad idea Maarten Lankhorst
2020-07-14 17:46 ` Jason Ekstrand
2020-07-20 11:15 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-21 7:41 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-21 7:45 ` Christian König
2020-07-21 8:47 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel) [this message]
2020-07-21 8:55 ` Christian König
2020-07-21 9:16 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-21 9:24 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-21 9:37 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-21 9:50 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-21 10:47 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-21 13:59 ` Christian König
2020-07-21 17:46 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-21 18:18 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-21 21:42 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-21 22:45 ` Dave Airlie
2020-07-22 6:45 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-22 7:11 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-22 8:05 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-22 9:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-22 10:31 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-22 11:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-22 12:22 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-22 12:41 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-22 13:12 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-22 14:07 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-22 14:23 ` Christian König
2020-07-22 14:30 ` Thomas Hellström (Intel)
2020-07-22 14:35 ` Christian König
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 04/25] drm/vkms: Annotate vblank timer Daniel Vetter
2020-07-12 22:27 ` Rodrigo Siqueira
2020-07-14 9:57 ` Melissa Wen
2020-07-14 9:59 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-14 14:55 ` Melissa Wen
2020-07-14 15:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 05/25] drm/vblank: Annotate with dma-fence signalling section Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 06/25] drm/amdgpu: add dma-fence annotations to atomic commit path Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 07/25] drm/komdea: Annotate dma-fence critical section in " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-08 5:17 ` james qian wang (Arm Technology China)
2020-07-14 8:34 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 08/25] drm/malidp: " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-15 12:53 ` Liviu Dudau
2020-07-15 13:51 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 09/25] drm/atmel: Use drm_atomic_helper_commit Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2020-07-07 21:31 ` [PATCH] " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-14 9:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 10/25] drm/imx: Annotate dma-fence critical section in commit path Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 11/25] drm/omapdrm: " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 12/25] drm/rcar-du: " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 23:32 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-14 8:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 13/25] drm/tegra: " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 14/25] drm/tidss: " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-08 9:01 ` Jyri Sarha
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 15/25] drm/tilcdc: Use standard drm_atomic_helper_commit Daniel Vetter
2020-07-08 9:17 ` Jyri Sarha
2020-07-08 9:27 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-08 9:44 ` [PATCH] " Daniel Vetter
2020-07-08 10:21 ` Jyri Sarha
2020-07-08 14:20 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-10 11:16 ` Jyri Sarha
2020-07-14 8:32 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 16/25] drm/atomic-helper: Add dma-fence annotations Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 17/25] drm/scheduler: use dma-fence annotations in main thread Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 18/25] drm/amdgpu: use dma-fence annotations in cs_submit() Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 19/25] drm/amdgpu: s/GFP_KERNEL/GFP_ATOMIC in scheduler code Daniel Vetter
2020-07-14 10:49 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-14 11:40 ` Christian König
2020-07-14 14:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-15 9:17 ` Christian König
2020-07-15 11:53 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 20/25] drm/amdgpu: DC also loves to allocate stuff where it shouldn't Daniel Vetter
2020-07-14 11:12 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 21/25] drm/amdgpu/dc: Stop dma_resv_lock inversion in commit_tail Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 22/25] drm/scheduler: use dma-fence annotations in tdr work Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 23/25] drm/amdgpu: use dma-fence annotations for gpu reset code Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 24/25] Revert "drm/amdgpu: add fbdev suspend/resume on gpu reset" Daniel Vetter
2020-07-07 20:12 ` [PATCH 25/25] drm/amdgpu: gpu recovery does full modesets Daniel Vetter
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