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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_gem_lmem.rst b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_gem_lmem.rst index 675ba8620d66..b421a3c1806e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_gem_lmem.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_gem_lmem.rst @@ -18,114 +18,5 @@ real, with all the uAPI bits is: * Route shmem backend over to TTM SYSTEM for discrete * TTM purgeable object support * Move i915 buddy allocator over to TTM - * MMAP ioctl mode(see `I915 MMAP`_) - * SET/GET ioctl caching(see `I915 SET/GET CACHING`_) * Send RFC(with mesa-dev on cc) for final sign off on the uAPI * Add pciid for DG1 and turn on uAPI for real - -New object placement and region query uAPI -========================================== -Starting from DG1 we need to give userspace the ability to allocate buffers from -device local-memory. Currently the driver supports gem_create, which can place -buffers in system memory via shmem, and the usual assortment of other -interfaces, like dumb buffers and userptr. - -To support this new capability, while also providing a uAPI which will work -beyond just DG1, we propose to offer three new bits of uAPI: - -DRM_I915_QUERY_MEMORY_REGIONS ------------------------------ -New query ID which allows userspace to discover the list of supported memory -regions(like system-memory and local-memory) for a given device. We identify -each region with a class and instance pair, which should be unique. The class -here would be DEVICE or SYSTEM, and the instance would be zero, on platforms -like DG1. - -Side note: The class/instance design is borrowed from our existing engine uAPI, -where we describe every physical engine in terms of its class, and the -particular instance, since we can have more than one per class. - -In the future we also want to expose more information which can further -describe the capabilities of a region. - -.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h - :functions: drm_i915_gem_memory_class drm_i915_gem_memory_class_instance drm_i915_memory_region_info drm_i915_query_memory_regions - -GEM_CREATE_EXT --------------- -New ioctl which is basically just gem_create but now allows userspace to provide -a chain of possible extensions. Note that if we don't provide any extensions and -set flags=0 then we get the exact same behaviour as gem_create. - -Side note: We also need to support PXP[1] in the near future, which is also -applicable to integrated platforms, and adds its own gem_create_ext extension, -which basically lets userspace mark a buffer as "protected". - -.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h - :functions: drm_i915_gem_create_ext - -I915_GEM_CREATE_EXT_MEMORY_REGIONS ----------------------------------- -Implemented as an extension for gem_create_ext, we would now allow userspace to -optionally provide an immutable list of preferred placements at creation time, -in priority order, for a given buffer object. For the placements we expect -them each to use the class/instance encoding, as per the output of the regions -query. Having the list in priority order will be useful in the future when -placing an object, say during eviction. - -.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h - :functions: drm_i915_gem_create_ext_memory_regions - -One fair criticism here is that this seems a little over-engineered[2]. If we -just consider DG1 then yes, a simple gem_create.flags or something is totally -all that's needed to tell the kernel to allocate the buffer in local-memory or -whatever. However looking to the future we need uAPI which can also support -upcoming Xe HP multi-tile architecture in a sane way, where there can be -multiple local-memory instances for a given device, and so using both class and -instance in our uAPI to describe regions is desirable, although specifically -for DG1 it's uninteresting, since we only have a single local-memory instance. - -Existing uAPI issues -==================== -Some potential issues we still need to resolve. - -I915 MMAP ---------- -In i915 there are multiple ways to MMAP GEM object, including mapping the same -object using different mapping types(WC vs WB), i.e multiple active mmaps per -object. TTM expects one MMAP at most for the lifetime of the object. If it -turns out that we have to backpedal here, there might be some potential -userspace fallout. - -I915 SET/GET CACHING --------------------- -In i915 we have set/get_caching ioctl. TTM doesn't let us to change this, but -DG1 doesn't support non-snooped pcie transactions, so we can just always -allocate as WB for smem-only buffers. If/when our hw gains support for -non-snooped pcie transactions then we must fix this mode at allocation time as -a new GEM extension. - -This is related to the mmap problem, because in general (meaning, when we're -not running on intel cpus) the cpu mmap must not, ever, be inconsistent with -allocation mode. - -Possible idea is to let the kernel picks the mmap mode for userspace from the -following table: - -smem-only: WB. Userspace does not need to call clflush. - -smem+lmem: We only ever allow a single mode, so simply allocate this as uncached -memory, and always give userspace a WC mapping. GPU still does snooped access -here(assuming we can't turn it off like on DG1), which is a bit inefficient. - -lmem only: always WC - -This means on discrete you only get a single mmap mode, all others must be -rejected. That's probably going to be a new default mode or something like -that. - -Links -===== -[1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/86798/ - -[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/5599#note_553791 |