Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] drm/scheduler: Add fence deadline support

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:25:20PM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 8:38 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 12:14:35PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> > > Am 07.08.21 um 20:37 schrieb Rob Clark:
> > > > From: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
> > > >
> > > > As the finished fence is the one that is exposed to userspace, and
> > > > therefore the one that other operations, like atomic update, would
> > > > block on, we need to propagate the deadline from from the finished
> > > > fence to the actual hw fence.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
> >
> > I guess you're already letting the compositor run at a higher gpu priority
> > so that your deadline'd drm_sched_job isn't stuck behind the app rendering
> > the next frame?
> 
> With the scheduler conversion we do have multiple priorities (provided
> by scheduler) for all generations.. but not yet preemption for all
> generations.
> 
> But the most common use-case where we need this ends up being display
> composition (either fullscreen app/game or foreground app/game
> composited via overlay) so I haven't thought too much about the next
> step of boosting job priority.  I might leave that to someone who
> already has preemption wired up ;-)

Atm no-one, drm/sched isn't really aware that's a concept. I was more
thinking of just boosting that request as a first step. Maybe within the
same priority class we pick jobs with deadlines first, or something like
that.

Preempting is an entire can of worms on top.
-Daniel

> 
> BR,
> -R
> 
> > I'm not sure whether you wire that one up as part of the conversion to
> > drm/sched. Without that I think we might need to ponder how we can do a
> > prio-boost for these, e.g. within a scheduling class we pick the jobs with
> > the nearest deadline first, before we pick others.
> > -Daniel
> >
> > > > ---
> > > >   drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_fence.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >   drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c  |  3 +++
> > > >   include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h             |  6 ++++++
> > > >   3 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_fence.c
> > > > index 69de2c76731f..f389dca44185 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_fence.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_fence.c
> > > > @@ -128,6 +128,30 @@ static void drm_sched_fence_release_finished(struct dma_fence *f)
> > > >     dma_fence_put(&fence->scheduled);
> > > >   }
> > > > +static void drm_sched_fence_set_deadline_finished(struct dma_fence *f,
> > > > +                                             ktime_t deadline)
> > > > +{
> > > > +   struct drm_sched_fence *fence = to_drm_sched_fence(f);
> > > > +   unsigned long flags;
> > > > +
> > > > +   spin_lock_irqsave(&fence->lock, flags);
> > > > +
> > > > +   /* If we already have an earlier deadline, keep it: */
> > > > +   if (test_bit(DMA_FENCE_FLAG_HAS_DEADLINE_BIT, &f->flags) &&
> > > > +       ktime_before(fence->deadline, deadline)) {
> > > > +           spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fence->lock, flags);
> > > > +           return;
> > > > +   }
> > > > +
> > > > +   fence->deadline = deadline;
> > > > +   set_bit(DMA_FENCE_FLAG_HAS_DEADLINE_BIT, &f->flags);
> > > > +
> > > > +   spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fence->lock, flags);
> > > > +
> > > > +   if (fence->parent)
> > > > +           dma_fence_set_deadline(fence->parent, deadline);
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > >   static const struct dma_fence_ops drm_sched_fence_ops_scheduled = {
> > > >     .get_driver_name = drm_sched_fence_get_driver_name,
> > > >     .get_timeline_name = drm_sched_fence_get_timeline_name,
> > > > @@ -138,6 +162,7 @@ static const struct dma_fence_ops drm_sched_fence_ops_finished = {
> > > >     .get_driver_name = drm_sched_fence_get_driver_name,
> > > >     .get_timeline_name = drm_sched_fence_get_timeline_name,
> > > >     .release = drm_sched_fence_release_finished,
> > > > +   .set_deadline = drm_sched_fence_set_deadline_finished,
> > > >   };
> > > >   struct drm_sched_fence *to_drm_sched_fence(struct dma_fence *f)
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> > > > index a2a953693b45..3ab0900d3596 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> > > > @@ -818,6 +818,9 @@ static int drm_sched_main(void *param)
> > > >             if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(fence)) {
> > > >                     s_fence->parent = dma_fence_get(fence);
> > > > +                   if (test_bit(DMA_FENCE_FLAG_HAS_DEADLINE_BIT,
> > > > +                                &s_fence->finished.flags))
> > > > +                           dma_fence_set_deadline(fence, s_fence->deadline);
> > >
> > > Maybe move this into a dma_sched_fence_set_parent() function.
> > >
> > > Apart from that looks good to me.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Christian.
> > >
> > > >                     r = dma_fence_add_callback(fence, &sched_job->cb,
> > > >                                                drm_sched_job_done_cb);
> > > >                     if (r == -ENOENT)
> > > > diff --git a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
> > > > index d18af49fd009..0f08ade614ae 100644
> > > > --- a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
> > > > +++ b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
> > > > @@ -144,6 +144,12 @@ struct drm_sched_fence {
> > > >            */
> > > >     struct dma_fence                finished;
> > > > +   /**
> > > > +    * @deadline: deadline set on &drm_sched_fence.finished which
> > > > +    * potentially needs to be propagated to &drm_sched_fence.parent
> > > > +    */
> > > > +   ktime_t                         deadline;
> > > > +
> > > >           /**
> > > >            * @parent: the fence returned by &drm_sched_backend_ops.run_job
> > > >            * when scheduling the job on hardware. We signal the
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Vetter
> > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> > http://blog.ffwll.ch

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch