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Hi Danilo, On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:44:06 +0100 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com> wrote: > Changes in V2: > ============== > Nouveau: > - Reworked the Nouveau VM_BIND UAPI to avoid memory allocations in fence > signalling critical sections. Updates to the VA space are split up in three > separate stages, where only the 2. stage executes in a fence signalling > critical section: > > 1. update the VA space, allocate new structures and page tables Sorry for the silly question, but I didn't find where the page tables pre-allocation happens. Mind pointing it to me? It's also unclear when this step happens. Is this at bind-job submission time, when the job is not necessarily ready to run, potentially waiting for other deps to be signaled. Or is it done when all deps are met, as an extra step before jumping to step 2. If that's the former, then I don't see how the VA space update can happen, since the bind-job might depend on other bind-jobs modifying the same portion of the VA space (unbind ops might lead to intermediate page table levels disappearing while we were waiting for deps). If it's the latter, I wonder why this is not considered as an allocation in the fence signaling path (for the bind-job out-fence to be signaled, you need these allocations to succeed, unless failing to allocate page-tables is considered like a HW misbehavior and the fence is signaled with an error in that case). Note that I'm not familiar at all with Nouveau or TTM, and it might be something that's solved by another component, or I'm just misunderstanding how the whole thing is supposed to work. This being said, I'd really like to implement a VM_BIND-like uAPI in pancsf using the gpuva_manager infra you're proposing here, so please bare with me :-). > 2. (un-)map the requested memory bindings > 3. free structures and page tables > > - Separated generic job scheduler code from specific job implementations. > - Separated the EXEC and VM_BIND implementation of the UAPI. > - Reworked the locking parts of the nvkm/vmm RAW interface, such that > (un-)map operations can be executed in fence signalling critical sections. > Regards, Boris
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:12:43 +0100 Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com> wrote: > Hi Danilo, > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:44:06 +0100 > Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Changes in V2: > > ============== > > Nouveau: > > - Reworked the Nouveau VM_BIND UAPI to avoid memory allocations in fence > > signalling critical sections. Updates to the VA space are split up in three > > separate stages, where only the 2. stage executes in a fence signalling > > critical section: > > > > 1. update the VA space, allocate new structures and page tables > > Sorry for the silly question, but I didn't find where the page tables > pre-allocation happens. Mind pointing it to me? It's also unclear when > this step happens. Is this at bind-job submission time, when the job is > not necessarily ready to run, potentially waiting for other deps to be > signaled. Or is it done when all deps are met, as an extra step before > jumping to step 2. If that's the former, then I don't see how the VA > space update can happen, since the bind-job might depend on other > bind-jobs modifying the same portion of the VA space (unbind ops might > lead to intermediate page table levels disappearing while we were > waiting for deps). If it's the latter, I wonder why this is not > considered as an allocation in the fence signaling path (for the > bind-job out-fence to be signaled, you need these allocations to > succeed, unless failing to allocate page-tables is considered like a HW > misbehavior and the fence is signaled with an error in that case). Ok, so I just noticed you only have one bind queue per drm_file (cli->sched_entity), and jobs are executed in-order on a given queue, so I guess that allows you to modify the VA space at submit time without risking any modifications to the VA space coming from other bind-queues targeting the same VM. And, if I'm correct, synchronous bind/unbind ops take the same path, so no risk for those to modify the VA space either (just wonder if it's a good thing to have to sync bind/unbind operations waiting on async ones, but that's a different topic). > > Note that I'm not familiar at all with Nouveau or TTM, and it might > be something that's solved by another component, or I'm just > misunderstanding how the whole thing is supposed to work. This being > said, I'd really like to implement a VM_BIND-like uAPI in pancsf using > the gpuva_manager infra you're proposing here, so please bare with me > :-). > > > 2. (un-)map the requested memory bindings > > 3. free structures and page tables > > > > - Separated generic job scheduler code from specific job implementations. > > - Separated the EXEC and VM_BIND implementation of the UAPI. > > - Reworked the locking parts of the nvkm/vmm RAW interface, such that > > (un-)map operations can be executed in fence signalling critical sections. > > > > Regards, > > Boris >
Hi Boris, On 3/9/23 10:48, Boris Brezillon wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:12:43 +0100 > Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com> wrote: > >> Hi Danilo, >> >> On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:44:06 +0100 >> Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com> wrote: >> >>> Changes in V2: >>> ============== >>> Nouveau: >>> - Reworked the Nouveau VM_BIND UAPI to avoid memory allocations in fence >>> signalling critical sections. Updates to the VA space are split up in three >>> separate stages, where only the 2. stage executes in a fence signalling >>> critical section: >>> >>> 1. update the VA space, allocate new structures and page tables >> >> Sorry for the silly question, but I didn't find where the page tables >> pre-allocation happens. Mind pointing it to me? It's also unclear when >> this step happens. Is this at bind-job submission time, when the job is >> not necessarily ready to run, potentially waiting for other deps to be >> signaled. Or is it done when all deps are met, as an extra step before >> jumping to step 2. If that's the former, then I don't see how the VA >> space update can happen, since the bind-job might depend on other >> bind-jobs modifying the same portion of the VA space (unbind ops might >> lead to intermediate page table levels disappearing while we were >> waiting for deps). If it's the latter, I wonder why this is not >> considered as an allocation in the fence signaling path (for the >> bind-job out-fence to be signaled, you need these allocations to >> succeed, unless failing to allocate page-tables is considered like a HW >> misbehavior and the fence is signaled with an error in that case). > > Ok, so I just noticed you only have one bind queue per drm_file > (cli->sched_entity), and jobs are executed in-order on a given queue, > so I guess that allows you to modify the VA space at submit time > without risking any modifications to the VA space coming from other > bind-queues targeting the same VM. And, if I'm correct, synchronous > bind/unbind ops take the same path, so no risk for those to modify the > VA space either (just wonder if it's a good thing to have to sync > bind/unbind operations waiting on async ones, but that's a different > topic). Yes, that's all correct. The page table allocation happens through nouveau_uvmm_vmm_get() which either allocates the corresponding page tables or increases the reference count, in case they already exist, accordingly. The call goes all the way through nvif into the nvkm layer (not the easiest to follow the call chain) and ends up in nvkm_vmm_ptes_get(). There are multiple reasons for updating the VA space at submit time in Nouveau. 1) Subsequent EXEC ioctl() calls would need to wait for the bind jobs they depend on within the ioctl() rather than in the scheduler queue, because at the point of time where the ioctl() happens the VA space wouldn't be up-to-date. 2) Let's assume a new mapping is requested and within it's range other mappings already exist. Let's also assume that those existing mappings aren't contiguous, such that there are gaps between them. In such a case I need to allocate page tables only for the gaps between the existing mappings, or alternatively, allocate them for the whole range of the new mapping, but free / decrease the reference count of the page tables for the ranges of the previously existing mappings afterwards. In the first case I need to know the gaps to allocate page tables for when submitting the job, which means the VA space must be up-to-date. In the latter one I must save the ranges of the previously existing mappings somewhere in order to clean them up, hence I need to allocate memory to store this information. Since I can't allocate this memory in the jobs run() callback (fence signalling critical section) I need to do it when submitting the job already and hence the VA space must be up-to-date again. However, this is due to how page table management currently works in Nouveau and we might change that in the future. Synchronous binds/unbinds taking the same path through the scheduler is a downside of this approach. - Danilo > >> >> Note that I'm not familiar at all with Nouveau or TTM, and it might >> be something that's solved by another component, or I'm just >> misunderstanding how the whole thing is supposed to work. This being >> said, I'd really like to implement a VM_BIND-like uAPI in pancsf using >> the gpuva_manager infra you're proposing here, so please bare with me >> :-). >> >>> 2. (un-)map the requested memory bindings >>> 3. free structures and page tables >>> >>> - Separated generic job scheduler code from specific job implementations. >>> - Separated the EXEC and VM_BIND implementation of the UAPI. >>> - Reworked the locking parts of the nvkm/vmm RAW interface, such that >>> (un-)map operations can be executed in fence signalling critical sections. >>> >> >> Regards, >> >> Boris >> >
Hi Danilo, On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:45:58 +0100 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi Boris, > > On 3/9/23 10:48, Boris Brezillon wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:12:43 +0100 > > Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi Danilo, > >> > >> On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:44:06 +0100 > >> Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Changes in V2: > >>> ============== > >>> Nouveau: > >>> - Reworked the Nouveau VM_BIND UAPI to avoid memory allocations in fence > >>> signalling critical sections. Updates to the VA space are split up in three > >>> separate stages, where only the 2. stage executes in a fence signalling > >>> critical section: > >>> > >>> 1. update the VA space, allocate new structures and page tables > >> > >> Sorry for the silly question, but I didn't find where the page tables > >> pre-allocation happens. Mind pointing it to me? It's also unclear when > >> this step happens. Is this at bind-job submission time, when the job is > >> not necessarily ready to run, potentially waiting for other deps to be > >> signaled. Or is it done when all deps are met, as an extra step before > >> jumping to step 2. If that's the former, then I don't see how the VA > >> space update can happen, since the bind-job might depend on other > >> bind-jobs modifying the same portion of the VA space (unbind ops might > >> lead to intermediate page table levels disappearing while we were > >> waiting for deps). If it's the latter, I wonder why this is not > >> considered as an allocation in the fence signaling path (for the > >> bind-job out-fence to be signaled, you need these allocations to > >> succeed, unless failing to allocate page-tables is considered like a HW > >> misbehavior and the fence is signaled with an error in that case). > > > > Ok, so I just noticed you only have one bind queue per drm_file > > (cli->sched_entity), and jobs are executed in-order on a given queue, > > so I guess that allows you to modify the VA space at submit time > > without risking any modifications to the VA space coming from other > > bind-queues targeting the same VM. And, if I'm correct, synchronous > > bind/unbind ops take the same path, so no risk for those to modify the > > VA space either (just wonder if it's a good thing to have to sync > > bind/unbind operations waiting on async ones, but that's a different > > topic). > > Yes, that's all correct. > > The page table allocation happens through nouveau_uvmm_vmm_get() which > either allocates the corresponding page tables or increases the > reference count, in case they already exist, accordingly. > The call goes all the way through nvif into the nvkm layer (not the > easiest to follow the call chain) and ends up in nvkm_vmm_ptes_get(). > > There are multiple reasons for updating the VA space at submit time in > Nouveau. > > 1) Subsequent EXEC ioctl() calls would need to wait for the bind jobs > they depend on within the ioctl() rather than in the scheduler queue, > because at the point of time where the ioctl() happens the VA space > wouldn't be up-to-date. Hm, actually that's what explicit sync is all about, isn't it? If you have async binding ops, you should retrieve the bind-op out-fences and pass them back as in-fences to the EXEC call, so you're sure all the memory mappings you depend on are active when you execute those GPU jobs. And if you're using sync binds, the changes are guaranteed to be applied before the ioctl() returns. Am I missing something? > > 2) Let's assume a new mapping is requested and within it's range other > mappings already exist. Let's also assume that those existing mappings > aren't contiguous, such that there are gaps between them. In such a case > I need to allocate page tables only for the gaps between the existing > mappings, or alternatively, allocate them for the whole range of the new > mapping, but free / decrease the reference count of the page tables for > the ranges of the previously existing mappings afterwards. > In the first case I need to know the gaps to allocate page tables for > when submitting the job, which means the VA space must be up-to-date. In > the latter one I must save the ranges of the previously existing > mappings somewhere in order to clean them up, hence I need to allocate > memory to store this information. Since I can't allocate this memory in > the jobs run() callback (fence signalling critical section) I need to do > it when submitting the job already and hence the VA space must be > up-to-date again. Yep that makes perfect sense, and that explains how the whole thing can work. When I initially read the patch series, I had more complex use cases in mind, with multiple bind queues targeting the same VM, and synchronous bind taking a fast path (so they don't have to wait on async binds which can in turn wait on external deps). This model makes it hard to predict what the VA space will look like when an async bind operation gets to be executed, thus making page table allocation more complex, or forcing us to over-estimate the amount of pages we need for this update (basically one page per MMU level, except maybe the top level, plus the number of pages you'll always need for the bind operation itself). > However, this is due to how page table management currently works in > Nouveau and we might change that in the future. I'm curious to hear about that if you have a bit of time. I'm starting from scratch with pancsf, and I might consider going for something similar to what you plan to do next. > > Synchronous binds/unbinds taking the same path through the scheduler is > a downside of this approach. Indeed. I mean, I can probably live with this limitation, but I'm curious to know if the pg table management changes you're considering for the future would solve that problem. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to answer my question, things are much clearer now. Boris
On 3/10/23 18:25, Boris Brezillon wrote: > Hi Danilo, > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:45:58 +0100 > Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com> wrote: >> Hi Boris, >> >>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:12:43 +0100 >>> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com> wrote: >>> >>> Ok, so I just noticed you only have one bind queue per drm_file >>> (cli->sched_entity), and jobs are executed in-order on a given queue, >>> so I guess that allows you to modify the VA space at submit time >>> without risking any modifications to the VA space coming from other >>> bind-queues targeting the same VM. And, if I'm correct, synchronous >>> bind/unbind ops take the same path, so no risk for those to modify the >>> VA space either (just wonder if it's a good thing to have to sync >>> bind/unbind operations waiting on async ones, but that's a different >>> topic). >> >> Yes, that's all correct. >> >> The page table allocation happens through nouveau_uvmm_vmm_get() which >> either allocates the corresponding page tables or increases the >> reference count, in case they already exist, accordingly. >> The call goes all the way through nvif into the nvkm layer (not the >> easiest to follow the call chain) and ends up in nvkm_vmm_ptes_get(). >> >> There are multiple reasons for updating the VA space at submit time in >> Nouveau. >> >> 1) Subsequent EXEC ioctl() calls would need to wait for the bind jobs >> they depend on within the ioctl() rather than in the scheduler queue, >> because at the point of time where the ioctl() happens the VA space >> wouldn't be up-to-date. > > Hm, actually that's what explicit sync is all about, isn't it? If you > have async binding ops, you should retrieve the bind-op out-fences and > pass them back as in-fences to the EXEC call, so you're sure all the > memory mappings you depend on are active when you execute those GPU > jobs. And if you're using sync binds, the changes are guaranteed to be > applied before the ioctl() returns. Am I missing something? > No, you're right and this is exactly how I implemented it. The difference is where to wait for the bind jobs out-fences. In the EXEC ioctl() we need to validate the GEM objects backing the dependent mappings and add the jobs fence to the GEMs DMA reservation. If the VA space isn't up-to-date we might not be able to look up the relevant GEMs and miss them. If the VA space change happens in the bind jobs submit path (ioctl()), it is guaranteed that the view of the VA space is up-to-date (actually it might even be ahead of the actual current state) when the EXEC ioctl() is called. Hence, I can just pass the out-fences of the binds jobs the EXEC depends on to the job scheduler and return from the ioctl(). The job scheduler will then wait for the actual mappings being populated before executing the EXEC job. If the VA space change is done when the bind job executes on the scheduler we would need to wait for the bind jobs out-fences in the EXEC ioctl() itself. >> >> 2) Let's assume a new mapping is requested and within it's range other >> mappings already exist. Let's also assume that those existing mappings >> aren't contiguous, such that there are gaps between them. In such a case >> I need to allocate page tables only for the gaps between the existing >> mappings, or alternatively, allocate them for the whole range of the new >> mapping, but free / decrease the reference count of the page tables for >> the ranges of the previously existing mappings afterwards. >> In the first case I need to know the gaps to allocate page tables for >> when submitting the job, which means the VA space must be up-to-date. In >> the latter one I must save the ranges of the previously existing >> mappings somewhere in order to clean them up, hence I need to allocate >> memory to store this information. Since I can't allocate this memory in >> the jobs run() callback (fence signalling critical section) I need to do >> it when submitting the job already and hence the VA space must be >> up-to-date again. > > Yep that makes perfect sense, and that explains how the whole thing can > work. When I initially read the patch series, I had more complex use > cases in mind, with multiple bind queues targeting the same VM, and > synchronous bind taking a fast path (so they don't have to wait on > async binds which can in turn wait on external deps). This model makes > it hard to predict what the VA space will look like when an async bind > operation gets to be executed, thus making page table allocation more > complex, or forcing us to over-estimate the amount of pages we need for > this update (basically one page per MMU level, except maybe the top > level, plus the number of pages you'll always need for the bind > operation itself). > >> However, this is due to how page table management currently works in >> Nouveau and we might change that in the future. > > I'm curious to hear about that if you have a bit of time. I'm starting > from scratch with pancsf, and I might consider going for something > similar to what you plan to do next. There is no concrete plan yet. However, with the current implementation there are a few shortcomings (also in handling sparse ranges) that I'd like to address in the future. > >> >> Synchronous binds/unbinds taking the same path through the scheduler is >> a downside of this approach. > > Indeed. I mean, I can probably live with this limitation, but I'm > curious to know if the pg table management changes you're considering > for the future would solve that problem. As mentioned above, I have a few ideas, but I did not think through them entirely yet. A few thoughts though: If running synchronous binds/unbinds through the job scheduler is a concern I think it could be beneficial to (pre-)allocate page tables for newly requested mappings without the need to know whether there are existing mappings within this range already (ideally without tracking page table allocations separate from GPUVAs), such that we can update the VA space at job execution time. Same thing for freeing page tables for a range that only partially contains mappings at all. For that, reference counting page tables per mapping wouldn't really work. On the other hand we need to consider that freeing page tables for a given range and allocating new page tables for the same or an overlapping range would need to be ordered in order to avoid races. > > Anyway, thanks for taking the time to answer my question, things are > much clearer now. I'm happy to discuss this. Feel free to also reach out in IRC, my nick is 'dakr'. > > Boris >