drm/i915/gem: Don't evict unmappable VMAs when pinning with PIN_MAPPABLE (v2)
authorVivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy@intel.com>
Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:54:31 +0000 (17:54 -0700)
committerTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:32:34 +0000 (12:32 +0000)
commit230523ba24bda5387637188ad56530bf6abd3f6c
treedcd571a6bb86dfe34a39bf469a6f4bd55e5b50b6
parentfa68bff7cf27d83e0ca83c6388d6bc2ddc599905
drm/i915/gem: Don't evict unmappable VMAs when pinning with PIN_MAPPABLE (v2)

On platforms capable of allowing 8K (7680 x 4320) modes, pinning 2 or
more framebuffers/scanout buffers results in only one that is mappable/
fenceable. Therefore, pageflipping between these 2 FBs where only one
is mappable/fenceable creates latencies large enough to miss alternate
vblanks thereby producing less optimal framerate.

This mainly happens because when i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane()
is called to pin one of the FB objs, the associated vma is identified
as misplaced -- because there is no space for it in the aperture --
and therefore i915_vma_unbind() is called which unbinds and evicts it.
This misplaced vma gets subseqently pinned only when
i915_gem_object_ggtt_pin_ww() is called without PIN_MAPPABLE. This whole
thing results in a latency of ~10ms and happens every other repaint cycle.
Therefore, to fix this issue, we just ensure that the misplaced VMA
does not get evicted when we try to pin it with PIN_MAPPABLE -- by
returning early if the mappable/fenceable flag is not set.

Testcase:
Running Weston and weston-simple-egl on an Alderlake_S (ADLS) platform
with a 8K@60 mode results in only ~40 FPS (compared to ~59 FPS with
this patch). Since upstream Weston submits a frame ~7ms before the
next vblank, the latencies seen between atomic commit and flip event
are 7, 24 (7 + 16.66), 7, 24..... suggesting that it misses the
vblank every other frame.

Here is the ftrace snippet that shows the source of the ~10ms latency:
              i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane() {
0.102 us   |    i915_gem_object_set_cache_level();
                i915_gem_object_ggtt_pin_ww() {
0.390 us   |      i915_vma_instance();
0.178 us   |      i915_vma_misplaced();
                  i915_vma_unbind() {
                  __i915_active_wait() {
0.082 us   |        i915_active_acquire_if_busy();
0.475 us   |      }
                  intel_runtime_pm_get() {
0.087 us   |        intel_runtime_pm_acquire();
0.259 us   |      }
                  __i915_active_wait() {
0.085 us   |        i915_active_acquire_if_busy();
0.240 us   |      }
                  __i915_vma_evict() {
                    ggtt_unbind_vma() {
                      gen8_ggtt_clear_range() {
10507.255 us |        }
10507.689 us |      }
10508.516 us |   }

v2:
- Expand the code comments to describe the ping-pong issue.

Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220321005431.1113890-1-vivek.kasireddy@intel.com
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c