Am 12.05.21 um 15:02 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 09:09 +0200, Christian König wrote:
Am 12.05.21 um 09:05 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 08:57 +0200, Christian König wrote:
Am 11.05.21 um 16:28 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
On 5/11/21 4:09 PM, Christian König wrote:
Am 11.05.21 um 16:06 schrieb Thomas Hellström (Intel): > On 5/11/21 3:58 PM, Christian König wrote: >> Am 11.05.21 um 15:25 schrieb Thomas Hellström: >>> Most logical place to introduce TTM buffer objects is >>> as an >>> i915 >>> gem object backend. We need to add some ops to account >>> for >>> added >>> functionality like delayed delete and LRU list >>> manipulation. >>> >>> Initially we support only LMEM and SYSTEM memory, but >>> SYSTEM >>> (which in this case means evicted LMEM objects) is not >>> visible to i915 GEM yet. The plan is to move the i915 >>> gem >>> system >>> region >>> over to the TTM system memory type in upcoming patches. >>> >>> We set up GPU bindings directly both from LMEM and from >>> the >>> system >>> region, >>> as there is no need to use the legacy TTM_TT memory >>> type. >>> We reserve >>> that for future porting of GGTT bindings to TTM. >>> >>> There are some changes to TTM to allow for purging >>> system >>> memory >>> buffer >>> objects and to refuse swapping of some objects: >>> Unfortunately i915 >>> gem >>> still relies heavily on short-term object pinning, and >>> we've >>> chosen to >>> keep short-term-pinned buffer objects on the TTM LRU >>> lists >>> for now, >>> meaning that we need some sort of mechanism to tell TTM >>> they are not >>> swappable. A longer term goal is to get rid of the >>> short- >>> term >>> pinning. >> Well just use the eviction_valuable interface for this. > Yes, we do that for vram/lmem eviction, but we have nothing > similar > for system swapping. Do I understand you correctly that you > want me > to add a call to eviction_valuable() also for that instead > of > swap_possible()? You should already have that. eviction_valuable is called in both cases.
Hmm. I can only see it called from ttm_mem_evict_first() which is not in the swapping path? Or do I miss something?
Mhm, looks like my recollection was wrong. We should probably move the call into the ttm_bo_evict_swapout_allowable() function.
Yes, I think we also need a convention whether it's called dma_resv locked or not, since the helper accesses bo->mem, which should really only be done under reservation. At the same point, there is value in calling this function while holding the LRU lock.
You actually need to call it while holding the lock because eviction otherwise ends up in an endless loop.
Trying to fix that for years, but so far no luck with that.
Also, I wonder whether implementations of this callback might encounter unexpected data when called from the swapout path, because at least the helper assumes it not in system memory, since it is accessing bo-
mem.start.
So unless we use a separate callback for swapout, there's some auditing to be done.
Please audit the existing callbacks and move the callback into the function after doing that.
Thanks, Christian.
Would it be OK if I also move the kref_get_unless_zero() to before ttm_bo_evict_swapout_allowable() to make the code less sensitive to surprises?
No, because then you need a kref_put while holding the spinlock which is not allowed.
Christian.
/Thomas
Pls let me know what you think. Thanks, Thomas
Christian.
Thanks,
Thomas