Hello,
This is an attempt at providing a new submit ioctl that's more Vulkan-friendly than the existing one. This ioctl
1/ allows passing several out syncobjs so we can easily update several fence/semaphore in a single ioctl() call 2/ allows passing several jobs so we don't have to have one ioctl per job-chain recorded in the command buffer 3/ supports disabling implicit dependencies as well as non-exclusive access to BOs, thus removing unnecessary synchronization
I've also been looking at adding {IN,OUT}_FENCE_FD support (allowing one to pass at most one sync_file object in input and/or creating a sync_file FD embedding the render out fence), but it's not entirely clear to me when that's useful. Indeed, we can already do the sync_file <-> syncobj conversion using the SYNCOBJ_{FD_TO_HANDLE,HANDLE_TO_FD} ioctls if we have to. Note that, unlike Turnip, PanVk is using syncobjs to implement vkQueueWaitIdle(), so the syncobj -> sync_file conversion doesn't have to happen for each submission, but maybe there's a good reason to use sync_files for that too. Any feedback on that aspect would be useful I guess.
Any feedback on this new ioctl is welcome, in particular, do you think other things are missing/would be nice to have for Vulkan?
Regards,
Boris
P.S.: basic igt tests for these new ioctls re available there [1]
[1]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bbrezillon/igt-gpu-tools/-/tree/panfrost-batc...
Boris Brezillon (7): drm/panfrost: Pass a job to panfrost_{acquire,attach_object_fences}() drm/panfrost: Move the mappings collection out of panfrost_lookup_bos() drm/panfrost: Add BO access flags to relax dependencies between jobs drm/panfrost: Add the ability to create submit queues drm/panfrost: Add a new ioctl to submit batches drm/panfrost: Advertise the SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE feature drm/panfrost: Bump minor version to reflect the feature additions
drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_device.h | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c | 442 ++++++++++++++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_job.c | 89 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_job.h | 10 +- .../gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_submitqueue.c | 130 ++++++ .../gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_submitqueue.h | 27 ++ include/uapi/drm/panfrost_drm.h | 103 ++++ 8 files changed, 720 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_submitqueue.c create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_submitqueue.h