We seem to be missing some W/A for 2M pages and are getting
a hit on raw GPU read bandwidths (even 30%) even though the
GPU write bandwidths improve (even 10%).
For now, disable THP, which is our only practical source of
2M pages until we have a W/A for the issue.
v2:
- Be explicit that we talk about GPU bandwidths (Eero)
- s/deny/never/ because that's why (Chris)
Reported-by: Valtteri Rantala <valtteri.rantala@intel.com>
Fixes: b901bb8932 ("drm/i915/gemfs: enable THP")
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Valtteri Rantala <valtteri.rantala@intel.com>
Cc: Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tamminen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Tested-by: Valtteri Rantala <valtteri.rantala@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171127091233.7001-1-joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com
Not a fully blown gemfs, just our very own tmpfs kernel mount. Doing so
moves us away from the shmemfs shm_mnt, and gives us the much needed
flexibility to do things like set our own mount options, namely huge=
which should allow us to enable the use of transparent-huge-pages for
our shmem backed objects.
v2: various improvements suggested by Joonas
v3: move gemfs instance to i915.mm and simplify now that we have
file_setup_with_mnt
v4: fallback to tmpfs shm_mnt upon failure to setup gemfs
v5: make tmpfs fallback kinder
v5: better gemfs failure message
flags variable
Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171006145041.21673-3-matthew.auld@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171006221833.32439-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Joonas Lahtinen