History log of /linux-master/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_guc_debugfs.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 83321094 06-Oct-2022 Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>

drm/i915/guc: Delay disabling guc_id scheduling for better hysteresis

Add a delay, configurable via debugfs (default 34ms), to disable
scheduling of a context after the pin count goes to zero. Disable
scheduling is a costly operation as it requires synchronizing with
the GuC. So the idea is that a delay allows the user to resubmit
something before doing this operation. This delay is only done if
the context isn't closed and less than a given threshold
(default is 3/4) of the guc_ids are in use.

Alan Previn: Matt Brost first introduced this patch back in Oct 2021.
However no real world workload with measured performance impact was
available to prove the intended results. Today, this series is being
republished in response to a real world workload that benefited greatly
from it along with measured performance improvement.

Workload description: 36 containers were created on a DG2 device where
each container was performing a combination of 720p 3d game rendering
and 30fps video encoding. The workload density was configured in a way
that guaranteed each container to ALWAYS be able to render and
encode no less than 30fps with a predefined maximum render + encode
latency time. That means the totality of all 36 containers and their
workloads were not saturating the engines to their max (in order to
maintain just enough headrooom to meet the min fps and max latencies
of incoming container submissions).

Problem statement: It was observed that the CPU core processing the i915
soft IRQ work was experiencing severe load. Using tracelogs and an
instrumentation patch to count specific i915 IRQ events, it was confirmed
that the majority of the CPU cycles were caused by the
gen11_other_irq_handler() -> guc_irq_handler() code path. The vast
majority of the cycles was determined to be processing a specific G2H
IRQ: i.e. INTEL_GUC_ACTION_SCHED_CONTEXT_MODE_DONE. These IRQs are sent
by GuC in response to i915 KMD sending H2G requests:
INTEL_GUC_ACTION_SCHED_CONTEXT_MODE_SET. Those H2G requests are sent
whenever a context goes idle so that we can unpin the context from GuC.
The high CPU utilization % symptom was limiting density scaling.

Root Cause Analysis: Because the incoming execution buffers were spread
across 36 different containers (each with multiple contexts) but the
system in totality was NOT saturated to the max, it was assumed that each
context was constantly idling between submissions. This was causing
a thrashing of unpinning contexts from GuC at one moment, followed quickly
by repinning them due to incoming workload the very next moment. These
event-pairs were being triggered across multiple contexts per container,
across all containers at the rate of > 30 times per sec per context.

Metrics: When running this workload without this patch, we measured an
average of ~69K INTEL_GUC_ACTION_SCHED_CONTEXT_MODE_DONE events every 10
seconds or ~10 million times over ~25+ mins. With this patch, the count
reduced to ~480 every 10 seconds or about ~28K over ~10 mins. The
improvement observed is ~99% for the average counts per 10 seconds.

Design awareness: Selftest impact.
As temporary WA disable this feature for the selftests. Selftests are
very timing sensitive and any change in timing can cause failure. A
follow up patch will fixup the selftests to understand this delay.

Design awareness: Race between guc_request_alloc and guc_context_close.
If a context close is issued while there is a request submission in
flight and a delayed schedule disable is pending, guc_context_close
and guc_request_alloc will race to cancel the delayed disable.
To close the race, make sure that guc_request_alloc waits for
guc_context_close to finish running before checking any state.

Design awareness: GT Reset event.
If a gt reset is triggered, as preparation steps, add an additional step
to ensure all contexts that have a pending delay-disable-schedule task
be flushed of it. Move them directly into the closed state after cancelling
the worker. This is okay because the existing flow flushes all
yet-to-arrive G2H's dropping them anyway.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Previn <alan.previn.teres.alexis@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221006225121.826257-2-alan.previn.teres.alexis@intel.com


# 54c204c5 19-Aug-2022 Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>

Revert "drm/i915/guc: Add delay to disable scheduling after pin count goes to zero"

This reverts commit 6a079903847cce1dd06345127d2a32f26d2cd9c6.

Everything in CI using GuC is now timing out[1], and killing the machine
with this change (perhaps a deadlock?). CI was recently on fire due to
some changes coming in from -rc1, so likely the pre-merge CI results for
this series were invalid? For now just revert, unless GuC experts
already have a fix in mind.

[1] https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/index.html?

Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Previn <alan.previn.teres.alexis@intel.com>
Cc: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220819123904.913750-1-matthew.auld@intel.com


# 6a079903 16-Aug-2022 Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>

drm/i915/guc: Add delay to disable scheduling after pin count goes to zero

Add a delay, configurable via debugfs (default 34ms), to disable
scheduling of a context after the pin count goes to zero. Disable
scheduling is a costly operation as it requires synchronizing with
the GuC. So the idea is that a delay allows the user to resubmit
something before doing this operation. This delay is only done if
the context isn't closed and less than a given threshold
(default is 3/4) of the guc_ids are in use.

As temporary WA disable this feature for the selftests. Selftests are
very timing sensitive and any change in timing can cause failure. A
follow up patch will fixup the selftests to understand this delay.

Alan Previn: Matt Brost first introduced this series back in Oct 2021.
However no real world workload with measured performance impact was
available to prove the intended results. Today, this series is being
republished in response to a real world workload that benefited greatly
from it along with measured performance improvement.

Workload description: 36 containers were created on a DG2 device where
each container was performing a combination of 720p 3d game rendering
and 30fps video encoding. The workload density was configured in a way
that guaranteed each container to ALWAYS be able to render and
encode no less than 30fps with a predefined maximum render + encode
latency time. That means the totality of all 36 containers and their
workloads were not saturating the engines to their max (in order to
maintain just enough headrooom to meet the min fps and max latencies
of incoming container submissions).

Problem statement: It was observed that the CPU core processing the i915
soft IRQ work was experiencing severe load. Using tracelogs and an
instrumentation patch to count specific i915 IRQ events, it was confirmed
that the majority of the CPU cycles were caused by the
gen11_other_irq_handler() -> guc_irq_handler() code path. The vast
majority of the cycles was determined to be processing a specific G2H
IRQ: i.e. INTEL_GUC_ACTION_SCHED_CONTEXT_MODE_DONE. These IRQs are sent
by GuC in response to i915 KMD sending H2G requests:
INTEL_GUC_ACTION_SCHED_CONTEXT_MODE_SET. Those H2G requests are sent
whenever a context goes idle so that we can unpin the context from GuC.
The high CPU utilization % symptom was limiting density scaling.

Root Cause Analysis: Because the incoming execution buffers were spread
across 36 different containers (each with multiple contexts) but the
system in totality was NOT saturated to the max, it was assumed that each
context was constantly idling between submissions. This was causing
a thrashing of unpinning contexts from GuC at one moment, followed quickly
by repinning them due to incoming workload the very next moment. These
event-pairs were being triggered across multiple contexts per container,
across all containers at the rate of > 30 times per sec per context.

Metrics: When running this workload without this patch, we measured an
average of ~69K INTEL_GUC_ACTION_SCHED_CONTEXT_MODE_DONE events every 10
seconds or ~10 million times over ~25+ mins. With this patch, the count
reduced to ~480 every 10 seconds or about ~28K over ~10 mins. The
improvement observed is ~99% for the average counts per 10 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Previn <alan.previn.teres.alexis@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220817020511.2180747-3-alan.previn.teres.alexis@intel.com


# 022f324c 17-Sep-2021 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

drm/i915: rename debugfs_gt files

We shouldn't be using debugfs_ namespace for this functionality. Rename
debugfs_gt.[ch] to intel_gt_debugfs.[ch] and then make functions,
defines and structs follow suit.

While at it and since we are renaming the header, sort the includes
alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210918025754.1254705-1-lucas.demarchi@intel.com


# f1928ac2 30-Jul-2021 Vinay Belgaumkar <vinay.belgaumkar@intel.com>

drm/i915/guc/slpc: Add debugfs for SLPC info

This prints out relevant SLPC info from the SLPC shared structure.

We will send a H2G message which forces SLPC to update the
shared data structure with latest information before reading it.

v2: Address review comments (Michal W)
v3: Remove unnecessary tasks from slpc_info (Michal W)
v4: Rename function to intel_guc_slpc_print_info() (Michal W)
v5: checkpatch()

Reviewed-by: Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinay Belgaumkar <vinay.belgaumkar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sundaresan Sujaritha <sujaritha.sundaresan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210730202119.23810-10-vinay.belgaumkar@intel.com


# 731c2ad5 26-Jul-2021 John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>

drm/i915/guc: Include scheduling policies in the debugfs state dump

Added the scheduling policy parameters to the 'guc_info' debugfs state
dump.

Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210727002348.97202-23-matthew.brost@intel.com


# 28ff6520 21-Jul-2021 Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>

drm/i915/guc: Update GuC debugfs to support new GuC

Update GuC debugfs to support the new GuC structures.

v2:
(John Harrison)
- Remove intel_lrc_reg.h include from i915_debugfs.c
(Michal)
- Rename GuC debugfs functions

Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210721215101.139794-17-matthew.brost@intel.com


# 293a5548 26-Mar-2020 Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>

drm/i915/uc: Move uC debugfs to its own folder under GT

uC is a component of the GT, so it makes sense for the uC debugfs files
to be in the GT folder. A subfolder has been used to keep the same
structure we have for the code.

v2: use intel_* prefix (Jani), rebase on new gt_debugfs_register_files,
fix permissions for writable debugfs files.

v3: Rename files (Michal), remove blank line (Jani), fix sparse warns.

Signed-off-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>
Cc: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Ye <tony.ye@intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@intel.com> #v2
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200326181121.16869-6-daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com