X.Org Developer's Conference 2019

Bulk moving mechanism on LRU for DRM/TTM

3 Oct 2019, 14:55

20m

Concordia University Conference Centre

Talk (half slot) (closed) Main Track

Speaker

Ray Huang (AMD GPU driver)

Description

While investigating a performance issue with the F1 2017 game benchmark, we identified some bottlenecks related to how ttm and amdgpu do buffer validation and LRU handling. This ultimately lead to a major redesign of how we handle buffer migration. This talk describes process that we took to identify and fix the bottleneck and what we learned along the way.

The Talos Principle(Vulkan) Clpeak(OCL) BusSpeedReadback(OCL) /unit: ms
Original 162.1 FPS 42.15 us 0.254 (1K) 0.241 (2K) 0.230(4K) 0.223(8K) 0.204(16K)
Bulk Move 162.4 FPS 44.48 us 0.260 (1K) 0.274 (2K) 0.249(4K) 0.243(8K) 0.228(16K)
Original (move PT bo on LRU) 147.7 FPS 76.86 us 0.319(1k) 0.314 (2K) 0.308(4K) 0.307(8K) 0.310(16K)
Bulk Move (move PT bo on LRU) 163.5 FPS 40.52 us 0.244(1K) 0.252(2K) 0.213(4K) 0.214(8K) 0.225(16K) <-- With the best performance and highest FPS at the same time

Reference:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-LRU-Bulk-Move
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2018-August/025014.html

Presentation materials

rayhuang_bulk_moving_mechanism.pdf