commit 45db630e5f7ec83817c57c8ae387fe219bd42adf upstream.
Since we allow removing the timeline map at runtime, there is a risk
that rq->hwsp points into a stale page. To control that risk, we hold
the RCU read lock while reading *rq->hwsp, but we missed a couple of
important barriers. First, the unpinning / removal of the timeline map
must be after all RCU readers into that map are complete, i.e. after an
rcu barrier (in this case courtesy of call_rcu()). Secondly, we must
make sure that the rq->hwsp we are about to dereference under the RCU
lock is valid. In this case, we make the rq->hwsp pointer safe during
i915_request_retire() and so we know that rq->hwsp may become invalid
only after the request has been signaled. Therefore is the request is
not yet signaled when we acquire rq->hwsp under the RCU, we know that
rq->hwsp will remain valid for the duration of the RCU read lock.
This is a very small window that may lead to either considering the
request not completed (causing a delay until the request is checked
again, any wait for the request is not affected) or dereferencing an
invalid pointer.
Fixes: 3adac4689f ("drm/i915: Introduce concept of per-timeline (context) HWSP")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.1+
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201218122421.18344-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit 9bb36cf66091ddf2d8840e5aa705ad3c93a6279b)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210118101755.476744-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
On the virtual engines, we only use the intel_breadcrumbs for tracking
signaling of stale breadcrumbs from the irq_workers. They do not have
any associated interrupt handling, active requests are passed to a
physical engine and associated breadcrumb interrupt handler. This causes
issues for us as we need to ensure that we do not actually try and
enable interrupts and the powermanagement required for them on the
virtual engine, as they will never be disabled. Instead, let's
specify the physical engine used for interrupt handler on a particular
breadcrumb.
v2: Drop b->irq_armed = true mocking for no interrupt HW
Fixes: 4fe6abb8f5 ("drm/i915/gt: Ignore irq enabling on the virtual engines")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200731154834.8378-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
I915_GEM_THROTTLE dates back to the time before contexts where there was
just a single engine, and therefore a single timeline and request list
globally. That request list was in execution/retirement order, and so
walking it to find a particular aged request made sense and could be
split per file.
That is no more. We now have many timelines with a file, as many as the
user wants to construct (essentially per-engine, per-context). Each of
those run independently and so make the single list futile. Remove the
disordered list, and iterate over all the timelines to find a request to
wait on in each to satisfy the criteria that the CPU is no more than 20ms
ahead of its oldest request.
It should go without saying that the I915_GEM_THROTTLE ioctl is no
longer used as the primary means of throttling, so it makes sense to push
the complication into the ioctl where it only impacts upon its few
irregular users, rather than the execbuf/retire where everybody has to
pay the cost. Fortunately, the few users do not create vast amount of
contexts, so the loops over contexts/engines should be concise.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200728152010.30701-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reduce the irq_work llist for attaching the callbacks to the signal for
both smaller structs (two fewer pointers!) and simpler [debug] code:
Function old new delta
irq_execute_cb 35 34 -1
__igt_breadcrumbs_smoketest 1684 1682 -2
i915_request_retire 2003 1996 -7
__i915_request_create 1047 1040 -7
__notify_execute_cb 135 126 -9
__i915_request_ctor 188 178 -10
__await_execution.part.constprop 451 440 -11
igt_wait_request 924 714 -210
One minor artifact is that the order of cb exection is reversed. No
current use cases are affected by that change.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200526112051.10229-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Now that we have fast timeslicing on semaphores, we no longer need to
prioritise none-semaphore work as we will yield any work blocked on a
semaphore to the next in the queue. Previously with no timeslicing,
blocking on the semaphore caused extremely bad scheduling with multiple
clients utilising multiple rings. Now, there is no impact and we can
remove the complication.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200513173504.28322-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The initial-breadcrumb is used to mark the end of the awaiting and the
beginning of the user payload. We verify that we do not start the user
payload before all signaler are completed, checking our semaphore setup
by looking for the initial breadcrumb being written too early. We also
want to ensure that we do not add semaphore waits after we have already
closed the semaphore section, an issue for later deferred waits.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200513165937.9508-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Add a tiny per-engine request mempool so that we should always have a
request available for powermanagement allocations from tricky
contexts. This reserve is expected to be only used for kernel
contexts when barriers must be emitted [almost] without fail.
The main consumer for this reserved request is expected to be engine-pm,
for which we know that there will always be at least the previous pm
request that we can reuse under mempressure (so there should always be
a spare request for engine_park()).
This is an alternative to using a comparatively bulky mempool, which
requires custom handling for both our reserved allocation requirement
and to protect our TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slab cache. The advantage of mempool
would be that it would allow us to keep a larger per-engine request
pool. However, converting over to mempool is straightforward should the
need arise.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Janusz Krzysztofik <janusz.krzysztofik@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <janusz.krzysztofik@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200402184037.21630-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
During i915_request_retire() we decouple the i915_request.hwsp_seqno
from the intel_timeline so that it may be freed before the request is
released. However, we need to warn the compiler that the pointer may
update under its nose.
[ 171.438899] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in i915_request_await_dma_fence [i915] / i915_request_retire [i915]
[ 171.438920]
[ 171.438932] write to 0xffff8881e7e28ce0 of 8 bytes by task 148 on cpu 2:
[ 171.439174] i915_request_retire+0x1ea/0x660 [i915]
[ 171.439408] retire_requests+0x7a/0xd0 [i915]
[ 171.439640] engine_retire+0xa1/0xe0 [i915]
[ 171.439657] process_one_work+0x3b1/0x690
[ 171.439671] worker_thread+0x80/0x670
[ 171.439685] kthread+0x19a/0x1e0
[ 171.439701] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[ 171.439721]
[ 171.439739] read to 0xffff8881e7e28ce0 of 8 bytes by task 696 on cpu 1:
[ 171.439990] i915_request_await_dma_fence+0x162/0x520 [i915]
[ 171.440230] i915_request_await_object+0x2fe/0x470 [i915]
[ 171.440467] i915_gem_do_execbuffer+0x45dc/0x4c20 [i915]
[ 171.440704] i915_gem_execbuffer2_ioctl+0x2c3/0x580 [i915]
[ 171.440722] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xe4/0x120
[ 171.440736] drm_ioctl+0x297/0x4c7
[ 171.440750] ksys_ioctl+0x89/0xb0
[ 171.440766] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x42/0x60
[ 171.440788] do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x2c0
[ 171.440802] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200309110934.868-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In order to support out-of-line error capture, we need to remove the
active request from HW and put it to one side while a worker compresses
and stores all the details associated with that request. (As that
compression may take an arbitrary user-controlled amount of time, we
want to let the engine continue running on other workloads while the
hanging request is dumped.) Not only do we need to remove the active
request, but we also have to remove its context and all requests that
were dependent on it (both in flight, queued and future submission).
Finally once the capture is complete, we need to be able to resubmit the
request and its dependents and allow them to execute.
v2: Replace stack recursion with a simple list.
v3: Check all the parents, not just the first, when searching for a
stuck ancestor!
References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/738
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200116184754.2860848-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Forgo the struct_mutex serialisation for i915_active, and interpose its
own mutex handling for active/retire.
This is a multi-layered sleight-of-hand. First, we had to ensure that no
active/retire callbacks accidentally inverted the mutex ordering rules,
nor assumed that they were themselves serialised by struct_mutex. More
challenging though, is the rule over updating elements of the active
rbtree. Instead of the whole i915_active now being serialised by
struct_mutex, allocations/rotations of the tree are serialised by the
i915_active.mutex and individual nodes are serialised by the caller
using the i915_timeline.mutex (we need to use nested spinlocks to
interact with the dma_fence callback lists).
The pain point here is that instead of a single mutex around execbuf, we
now have to take a mutex for active tracker (one for each vma, context,
etc) and a couple of spinlocks for each fence update. The improvement in
fine grained locking allowing for multiple concurrent clients
(eventually!) should be worth it in typical loads.
v2: Add some comments that barely elucidate anything :(
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191004134015.13204-6-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
If we are asked to submit a completed request, just move it onto the
active-list without modifying it's payload. If we try to emit the
modified payload of a completed request, we risk racing with the
ring->head update during retirement which may advance the head past our
breadcrumb and so we generate a warning for the emission being behind
the RING_HEAD.
v2: Commentary for the sneaky, shared responsibility between functions.
v3: Spelling mistakes and bonus assertion
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190923110056.15176-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The request->timeline is only valid until the request is retired (i.e.
before it is completed). Upon retiring the request, the context may be
unpinned and freed, and along with it the timeline may be freed. We
therefore need to be very careful when chasing rq->timeline that the
pointer does not disappear beneath us. The vast majority of users are in
a protected context, either during request construction or retirement,
where the timeline->mutex is held and the timeline cannot disappear. It
is those few off the beaten path (where we access a second timeline) that
need extra scrutiny -- to be added in the next patch after first adding
the warnings about dangerous access.
One complication, where we cannot use the timeline->mutex itself, is
during request submission onto hardware (under spinlocks). Here, we want
to check on the timeline to finalize the breadcrumb, and so we need to
impose a second rule to ensure that the request->timeline is indeed
valid. As we are submitting the request, it's context and timeline must
be pinned, as it will be used by the hardware. Since it is pinned, we
know the request->timeline must still be valid, and we cannot submit the
idle barrier until after we release the engine->active.lock, ergo while
submitting and holding that spinlock, a second thread cannot release the
timeline.
v2: Don't be lazy inside selftests; hold the timeline->mutex for as long
as we need it, and tidy up acquiring the timeline with a bit of
refactoring (i915_active_add_request)
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190919111912.21631-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
When using a global seqno, we required a precise stop-the-workd event to
handle preemption and unwind the global seqno counter. To accomplish
this, we would preempt to a special out-of-band context and wait for the
machine to report that it was idle. Given an idle machine, we could very
precisely see which requests had completed and which we needed to feed
back into the run queue.
However, now that we have scrapped the global seqno, we no longer need
to precisely unwind the global counter and only track requests by their
per-context seqno. This allows us to loosely unwind inflight requests
while scheduling a preemption, with the enormous caveat that the
requests we put back on the run queue are still _inflight_ (until the
preemption request is complete). This makes request tracking much more
messy, as at any point then we can see a completed request that we
believe is not currently scheduled for execution. We also have to be
careful not to rewind RING_TAIL past RING_HEAD on preempting to the
running context, and for this we use a semaphore to prevent completion
of the request before continuing.
To accomplish this feat, we change how we track requests scheduled to
the HW. Instead of appending our requests onto a single list as we
submit, we track each submission to ELSP as its own block. Then upon
receiving the CS preemption event, we promote the pending block to the
inflight block (discarding what was previously being tracked). As normal
CS completion events arrive, we then remove stale entries from the
inflight tracker.
v2: Be a tinge paranoid and ensure we flush the write into the HWS page
for the GPU semaphore to pick in a timely fashion.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190620142052.19311-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
To continue the onslaught of removing the assumption of a global
execution ordering, another casualty is the engine->timeline. Without an
actual timeline to track, it is overkill and we can replace it with a
much less grand plain list. We still need a list of requests inflight,
for the simple purpose of finding inflight requests (for retiring,
resetting, preemption etc).
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190614164606.15633-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In the current scheme, on submitting a request we take a single global
GEM wakeref, which trickles down to wake up all GT power domains. This
is undesirable as we would like to be able to localise our power
management to the available power domains and to remove the global GEM
operations from the heart of the driver. (The intent there is to push
global GEM decisions to the boundary as used by the GEM user interface.)
Now during request construction, each request is responsible via its
logical context to acquire a wakeref on each power domain it intends to
utilize. Currently, each request takes a wakeref on the engine(s) and
the engines themselves take a chipset wakeref. This gives us a
transition on each engine which we can extend if we want to insert more
powermangement control (such as soft rc6). The global GEM operations
that currently require a struct_mutex are reduced to listening to pm
events from the chipset GT wakeref. As we reduce the struct_mutex
requirement, these listeners should evaporate.
Perhaps the biggest immediate change is that this removes the
struct_mutex requirement around GT power management, allowing us greater
flexibility in request construction. Another important knock-on effect,
is that by tracking engine usage, we can insert a switch back to the
kernel context on that engine immediately, avoiding any extra delay or
inserting global synchronisation barriers. This makes tracking when an
engine and its associated contexts are idle much easier -- important for
when we forgo our assumed execution ordering and need idle barriers to
unpin used contexts. In the process, it means we remove a large chunk of
code whose only purpose was to switch back to the kernel context.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190424200717.1686-5-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Start acquiring the logical intel_context and using that as our primary
means for request allocation. This is the initial step to allow us to
avoid requiring struct_mutex for request allocation along the
perma-pinned kernel context, but it also provides a foundation for
breaking up the complex request allocation to handle different scenarios
inside execbuf.
For the purpose of emitting a request from inside retirement (see the
next patch for engine power management), we also need to lift control
over the timeline mutex to the caller.
v2: Note that the request carries the active reference upon construction.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190424200717.1686-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Consider two tasks that are running in parallel on a pair of engines
(vcs0, vcs1), but then must complete on a shared engine (rcs0). To
maximise throughput, we want to run the first ready task on rcs0 (i.e.
the first task that completes on either of vcs0 or vcs1). When using
semaphores, however, we will instead queue onto rcs in submission order.
To resolve this incorrect ordering, we want to re-evaluate the priority
queue when each of the request is ready. Normally this happens because
we only insert into the priority queue requests that are ready, but with
semaphores we are inserting ahead of their readiness and to compensate
we penalize those tasks with reduced priority (so that tasks that do not
need to busywait should naturally be run first). However, given a series
of tasks that each use semaphores, the queue degrades into submission
fifo rather than readiness fifo, and so to counter this we give a small
boost to semaphore users as their dependent tasks are completed (and so
we no longer require any busywait prior to running the user task as they
are then ready themselves).
v2: Fixup irqsave for schedule_lock (Tvrtko)
Testcase: igt/gem_exec_schedule/semaphore-codependency
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry Rogozhkin <dmitry.v.rogozhkin@intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry Ermilov <dmitry.ermilov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190409152922.23894-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
During request construction, we take the timeline->mutex to ensure
exclusive access to the ringbuffer (for command emission) and the
timeline itself (for command ordering). The timeline->mutex should not
be dropped by callers until we release it in i915_request_add().
lockdep provides a pin/unpin lock facility to detect accidental unlocks
inside critical sections, so put it to use for request construction.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190403082132.327-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Previously, our view has been always to run the engines independently
within a context. (Multiple engines happened before we had contexts and
timelines, so they always operated independently and that behaviour
persisted into contexts.) However, at the user level the context often
represents a single timeline (e.g. GL contexts) and userspace must
ensure that the individual engines are serialised to present that
ordering to the client (or forgot about this detail entirely and hope no
one notices - a fair ploy if the client can only directly control one
engine themselves ;)
In the next patch, we will want to construct a set of engines that
operate as one, that have a single timeline interwoven between them, to
present a single virtual engine to the user. (They submit to the virtual
engine, then we decide which engine to execute on based.)
To that end, we want to be able to create contexts which have a single
timeline (fence context) shared between all engines, rather than multiple
timelines.
v2: Move the specialised timeline ordering to its own function.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190322092325.5883-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Having introduced per-context seqno, we now have a means to identity
progress across the system without feel of rollback as befell the
global_seqno. That is we can program a MI_SEMAPHORE_WAIT operation in
advance of submission safe in the knowledge that our target seqno and
address is stable.
However, since we are telling the GPU to busy-spin on the target address
until it matches the signaling seqno, we only want to do so when we are
sure that busy-spin will be completed quickly. To achieve this we only
submit the request to HW once the signaler is itself executing (modulo
preemption causing us to wait longer), and we only do so for default and
above priority requests (so that idle priority tasks never themselves
hog the GPU waiting for others).
As might be reasonably expected, HW semaphores excel in inter-engine
synchronisation microbenchmarks (where the 3x reduced latency / increased
throughput more than offset the power cost of spinning on a second ring)
and have significant improvement (can be up to ~10%, most see no change)
for single clients that utilize multiple engines (typically media players
and transcoders), without regressing multiple clients that can saturate
the system or changing the power envelope dramatically.
v3: Drop the older NEQ branch, now we pin the signaler's HWSP anyway.
v4: Tell the world and include it as part of scheduler caps.
Testcase: igt/gem_exec_whisper
Testcase: igt/benchmarks/gem_wsim
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190301170901.8340-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
In preparation for enabling HW semaphores, we need to keep in flight
timeline HWSP alive until its use across entire system has completed,
as any other timeline active on the GPU may still refer back to the
already retired timeline. We both have to delay recycling available
cachelines and unpinning old HWSP until the next idle point.
An easy option would be to simply keep all used HWSP until the system as
a whole was idle, i.e. we could release them all at once on parking.
However, on a busy system, we may never see a global idle point,
essentially meaning the resource will be leaked until we are forced to
do a GC pass. We already employ a fine-grained idle detection mechanism
for vma, which we can reuse here so that each cacheline can be freed
immediately after the last request using it is retired.
v3: Keep track of the activity of each cacheline.
v4: cacheline_free() on canceling the seqno tracking
v5: Finally with a testcase to exercise wraparound
v6: Pack cacheline into empty bits of page-aligned vaddr
v7: Use i915_utils to hide the pointer casting around bit manipulation
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190301170901.8340-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
As kmem_caches share the same properties (size, allocation/free behaviour)
for all potential devices, we can use global caches. While this
potential has worse fragmentation behaviour (one can argue that
different devices would have different activity lifetimes, but you can
also argue that activity is temporal across the system) it is the
default behaviour of the system at large to amalgamate matching caches.
The benefit for us is much reduced pointer dancing along the frequent
allocation paths.
v2: Defer shrinking until after a global grace period for futureproofing
multiple consumers of the slab caches, similar to the current strategy
for avoiding shrinking too early.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190228102035.5857-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk