Re: commit 7ffb791423c7 breaks steam game

From: Bert Karwatzki
Date: Sun Mar 16 2025 - 09:09:45 EST


This is related to the admgpu.gttsize. My laptop has the maximum amount 
of memory (64G) and usually gttsize is half of main memory size. I just 
tested with cmdline="nokaslr amdgpi.gttsize=2048" and the problem does 
not occur. So I did some more testing with varying gttsize and got this
for the built-in GPU

08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] (rev c5)

(nokaslr is always enabeld)
gttssize input behaviour
2048 GOOD
2064 GOOD
2080 SEMIBAD (i.e. noticeable input lag but not as bad as below)
3072 BAD
4096 BAD
8192 BAD
16384 BAD

As the build-in GPU has ~512 VRAM there seems to be problems when gttsize >
4*VRAM so I tested for the discrete GPU with 8G of VRAM
gttsize input behaviour
49152 GOOD
64000 GOOD

So for the discrete GPU increasing gttsize does no reproduce the bug.

Bert Karwatzki