Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] drm: Add a sharable drm page-pool implementation

[John Stultz]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 11:52 PM Christian König
<christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Am 01.07.21 um 00:24 schrieb John Stultz:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 2:10 AM Christian König
> > <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Am 30.06.21 um 03:34 schrieb John Stultz:
> >>> +static unsigned long page_pool_size; /* max size of the pool */
> >>> +
> >>> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(page_pool_size, "Number of pages in the drm page pool");
> >>> +module_param(page_pool_size, ulong, 0644);
> >>> +
> >>> +static atomic_long_t nr_managed_pages;
> >>> +
> >>> +static struct mutex shrinker_lock;
> >>> +static struct list_head shrinker_list;
> >>> +static struct shrinker mm_shrinker;
> >>> +
> >>> +/**
> >>> + * drm_page_pool_set_max - Sets maximum size of all pools
> >>> + *
> >>> + * Sets the maximum number of pages allows in all pools.
> >>> + * This can only be set once, and the first caller wins.
> >>> + */
> >>> +void drm_page_pool_set_max(unsigned long max)
> >>> +{
> >>> +     if (!page_pool_size)
> >>> +             page_pool_size = max;
> >>> +}
> >>> +
> >>> +/**
> >>> + * drm_page_pool_get_max - Maximum size of all pools
> >>> + *
> >>> + * Return the maximum number of pages allows in all pools
> >>> + */
> >>> +unsigned long drm_page_pool_get_max(void)
> >>> +{
> >>> +     return page_pool_size;
> >>> +}
> >> Well in general I don't think it is a good idea to have getters/setters
> >> for one line functionality, similar applies to locking/unlocking the
> >> mutex below.
> >>
> >> Then in this specific case what those functions do is to aid
> >> initializing the general pool manager and that in turn should absolutely
> >> not be exposed.
> >>
> >> The TTM pool manager exposes this as function because initializing the
> >> pool manager is done in one part of the module and calculating the
> >> default value for the pages in another one. But that is not something I
> >> would like to see here.
> > So, I guess I'm not quite clear on what you'd like to see...
> >
> > Part of what I'm balancing here is the TTM subsystem normally sets a
> > global max size, whereas the old ION pool didn't have caps (instead
> > just relying on the shrinker when needed).
> > So I'm trying to come up with a solution that can serve both uses. So
> > I've got this drm_page_pool_set_max() function to optionally set the
> > maximum value, which is called in the TTM initialization path or set
> > the boot argument. But for systems that use the dmabuf system heap,
> > but don't use TTM, no global limit is enforced.
>
> Yeah, exactly that's what I'm trying to prevent.
>
> See if we have the same functionality used by different use cases we
> should not have different behavior depending on what drivers are loaded.
>
> Is it a problem if we restrict the ION pool to 50% of system memory as
> well? If yes than I would rather drop the limit from TTM and only rely
> on the shrinker there as well.

Would having the default value as a config option (still overridable
via boot argument) be an acceptable solution?

Thanks again for the feedback!

thanks
-john