Re: [Freedreno] [PATCH v2 22/22] drm/msm: Don't implicit-sync if only a single ring

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 4:08 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 08:07:38AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 7:40 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 07:09:49PM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > > > From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Any cross-device sync use-cases *must* use explicit sync.  And if there
> > > > is only a single ring (no-preemption), everything is FIFO order and
> > > > there is no need to implicit-sync.
> > > >
> > > > Mesa should probably just always use MSM_SUBMIT_NO_IMPLICIT, as behavior
> > > > is undefined when fences are not used to synchronize buffer usage across
> > > > contexts (which is the only case where multiple different priority rings
> > > > could come into play).
> > >
> > > Uh does this mean msm is broken on dri2/3 and wayland? Or I'm I just
> > > confused by your commit message?
> >
> > No, I don't think so.  If there is only a single priority level
> > ringbuffer (ie. no preemption to higher priority ring) then everything
> > is inherently FIFO order.
>
> Well eventually you get a scheduler I guess/hope :-)

we do have one currently for some gens, but not others.. hence the
check for # of rings.  (Ie. there is a ring per priority level, if
only one ring, that means no preemption/scheduler)

> > For cases where we are sharing buffers with something external to drm,
> > explicit sync will be used.  And we don't implicit sync with display,
> > otherwise x11 (frontbuffer rendering) would not work
>
> Uh now I'm even more confused. The implicit sync fences in dma_resv are
> kinda for everyone. That's also why dma_resv with the common locking
> approach is a useful idea.
>
> So display should definitely support implicit sync, and iirc msm does have
> the helper hooked up.

yup

> Wrt other subsystems, I guess passing dma_fence around somehow doesn't fit
> into v4l (the patches never landed), so v4l doesn't do any kind of sync
> right now. But this could be fixed. Not sure what else is going on.
>
> So I guess I still have no idea why you put that into the commit message.
>
> btw for what you're trying to do yourself, the way to do this is to
> allocate a fence timeline for your engine, compare fences, and no-op them
> all out if their own the same timeline.

we do that already (with a fence timeline per-ring, in the case of
gens which support multiple rings / preemption).. this patch just
short-circuits that in the case where we already knows the fences will
of the same timeline

BR,
-R

> -Daniel
>
> >
> > BR,
> > -R
> >
> > > Since for these protocols we do expect implicit sync accross processes to
> > > work. Even across devices (and nvidia have actually provided quite a bunch
> > > of patches to make this work in i915 - ttm based drivers get this right,
> > > plus dumb scanout drivers using the right helpers also get this all
> > > right).
> > > -Daniel
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c | 7 ++++---
> > > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
> > > > index 3151a0ca8904..c69803ea53c8 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c
> > > > @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static int submit_lock_objects(struct msm_gem_submit *submit)
> > > >       return ret;
> > > >  }
> > > >
> > > > -static int submit_fence_sync(struct msm_gem_submit *submit, bool no_implicit)
> > > > +static int submit_fence_sync(struct msm_gem_submit *submit, bool implicit_sync)
> > > >  {
> > > >       int i, ret = 0;
> > > >
> > > > @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static int submit_fence_sync(struct msm_gem_submit *submit, bool no_implicit)
> > > >                               return ret;
> > > >               }
> > > >
> > > > -             if (no_implicit)
> > > > +             if (!implicit_sync)
> > > >                       continue;
> > > >
> > > >               ret = msm_gem_sync_object(&msm_obj->base, submit->ring->fctx,
> > > > @@ -768,7 +768,8 @@ int msm_ioctl_gem_submit(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
> > > >       if (ret)
> > > >               goto out;
> > > >
> > > > -     ret = submit_fence_sync(submit, !!(args->flags & MSM_SUBMIT_NO_IMPLICIT));
> > > > +     ret = submit_fence_sync(submit, (gpu->nr_rings > 1) &&
> > > > +                     !(args->flags & MSM_SUBMIT_NO_IMPLICIT));
> > > >       if (ret)
> > > >               goto out;
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 2.26.2
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel Vetter
> > > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> > > http://blog.ffwll.ch
>
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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