[PATCH] drm/bochs: use ioremap_wc() to map framebuffer during driver probing

From: Yan Zhao
Date: Mon Sep 09 2024 - 01:17:45 EST


Use ioremap_wc() instead of ioremap() to map framebuffer during driver
probing phase.

Using ioremap() results in a VA being mapped with PAT=UC-. Additionally,
on x86 architectures, ioremap() invokes memtype_reserve() to reserve the
memory type as UC- for the physical range. This reservation can cause
subsequent calls to ioremap_wc() to fail to map the VA with PAT=WC to the
same physical range for framebuffre in ttm_kmap_iter_linear_io_init().
Consequently, the operation drm_gem_vram_bo_driver_move() ->
ttm_bo_move_memcpy() -> ttm_move_memcpy() becomes significantly slow on
platforms where UC memory access is slow.

Here's the performance data measured in a guest on the physical machine
"Sapphire Rapids XCC".
With host KVM honors guest PAT memory types, the effective memory type
for this framebuffer range is
- WC when ioremap_wc() is used in driver probing phase
- UC- when ioremap() is used.

The data presented is an average from 10 execution runs.
The memcpy range for the data is
mem->bus.offset=0xfd000000, mem->size=0x3e8000.

--------------------------------------------------------------
| in bochs_hw_init() |
| ioremap() | ioremap_wc() |
------------------------------|----------------|--------------|
cycles of | 2227.4M | 17.8M |
drm_gem_vram_bo_driver_move() | | |
------------------------------|----------------|--------------|
time of | 1.24s | 0.01s |
drm_gem_vram_bo_driver_move() | | |
--------------------------------------------------------------

Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87jzfutmfc.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx/#t
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/bochs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/bochs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/bochs.c
index 31fc5d839e10..6414f0a72f6a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/bochs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/bochs.c
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static int bochs_hw_init(struct drm_device *dev)
if (pci_request_region(pdev, 0, "bochs-drm") != 0)
DRM_WARN("Cannot request framebuffer, boot fb still active?\n");

- bochs->fb_map = ioremap(addr, size);
+ bochs->fb_map = ioremap_wc(addr, size);
if (bochs->fb_map == NULL) {
DRM_ERROR("Cannot map framebuffer\n");
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.43.2