Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] drm: fdinfo memory stats

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 9:53 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 09:47:32AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 2:06 PM Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Similar motivation to other similar recent attempt[1].  But with an
> > > attempt to have some shared code for this.  As well as documentation.
> > >
> > > It is probably a bit UMA-centric, I guess devices with VRAM might want
> > > some placement stats as well.  But this seems like a reasonable start.
> > >
> > > Basic gputop support: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/116236/
> > > And already nvtop support: https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop/pull/204
> >
> > On a related topic, I'm wondering if it would make sense to report
> > some more global things (temp, freq, etc) via fdinfo?  Some of this,
> > tools like nvtop could get by trawling sysfs or other driver specific
> > ways.  But maybe it makes sense to have these sort of things reported
> > in a standardized way (even though they aren't really per-drm_file)
>
> I think that's a bit much layering violation, we'd essentially have to
> reinvent the hwmon sysfs uapi in fdinfo. Not really a business I want to
> be in :-)

I guess this is true for temp (where there are thermal zones with
potentially multiple temp sensors.. but I'm still digging my way thru
the thermal_cooling_device stuff)

But what about freq?  I think, esp for cases where some "fw thing" is
controlling the freq we end up needing to use gpu counters to measure
the freq.

> What might be needed is better glue to go from the fd or fdinfo to the
> right hw device and then crawl around the hwmon in sysfs automatically. I
> would not be surprised at all if we really suck on this, probably more
> likely on SoC than pci gpus where at least everything should be under the
> main pci sysfs device.

yeah, I *think* userspace would have to look at /proc/device-tree to
find the cooling device(s) associated with the gpu.. at least I don't
see a straightforward way to figure it out just for sysfs

BR,
-R

> -Daniel
>
> >
> > BR,
> > -R
> >
> >
> > > [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/112397/
> > >
> > > Rob Clark (2):
> > >   drm: Add fdinfo memory stats
> > >   drm/msm: Add memory stats to fdinfo
> > >
> > >  Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst | 21 +++++++
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c            | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c         | 25 ++++++++-
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c         |  2 -
> > >  include/drm/drm_file.h                | 10 ++++
> > >  5 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.39.2
> > >
>
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch