drm/i915: Move execlists irq handler to a bottom half
Doing a lot of work in the interrupt handler introduces huge
latencies to the system as a whole.
Most dramatic effect can be seen by running an all engine
stress test like igt/gem_exec_nop/all where, when the kernel
config is lean enough, the whole system can be brought into
multi-second periods of complete non-interactivty. That can
look for example like this:
NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [kworker/u8:3:143]
Modules linked in: [redacted for brevity]
CPU: 0 PID: 143 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G U L 4.5.0-160321+ #183
Hardware name: Intel Corporation Broadwell Client platform/WhiteTip Mountain 1
Workqueue: i915 gen6_pm_rps_work [i915]
task:
ffff8800aae88000 ti:
ffff8800aae90000 task.ti:
ffff8800aae90000
RIP: 0010:[<
ffffffff8104a3c2>] [<
ffffffff8104a3c2>] __do_softirq+0x72/0x1d0
RSP: 0000:
ffff88014f403f38 EFLAGS:
00000206
RAX:
ffff8800aae94000 RBX:
0000000000000000 RCX:
00000000000006e0
RDX:
0000000000000020 RSI:
0000000004208060 RDI:
0000000000215d80
RBP:
ffff88014f403f80 R08:
0000000b1b42c180 R09:
0000000000000022
R10:
0000000000000004 R11:
00000000ffffffff R12:
000000000000a030
R13:
0000000000000082 R14:
ffff8800aa4d0080 R15:
0000000000000082
FS:
0000000000000000(0000) GS:
ffff88014f400000(0000) knlGS:
0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
0000000080050033
CR2:
00007fa53b90c000 CR3:
0000000001a0a000 CR4:
00000000001406f0
DR0:
0000000000000000 DR1:
0000000000000000 DR2:
0000000000000000
DR3:
0000000000000000 DR6:
00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:
0000000000000400
Stack:
042080601b33869f ffff8800aae94000 00000000fffc2678 ffff88010000000a
0000000000000000 000000000000a030 0000000000005302 ffff8800aa4d0080
0000000000000206 ffff88014f403f90 ffffffff8104a716 ffff88014f403fa8
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
[<
ffffffff8104a716>] irq_exit+0x86/0x90
[<
ffffffff81031e7d>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3d/0x50
[<
ffffffff814f3eac>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x7c/0x90
<EOI>
[<
ffffffffa01c5b40>] ? gen8_write64+0x1a0/0x1a0 [i915]
[<
ffffffff814f2b39>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x9/0x20
[<
ffffffffa01c5c44>] gen8_write32+0x104/0x1a0 [i915]
[<
ffffffff8132c6a2>] ? n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x372/0xae0
[<
ffffffffa017cc9e>] gen6_set_rps_thresholds+0x1be/0x330 [i915]
[<
ffffffffa017eaf0>] gen6_set_rps+0x70/0x200 [i915]
[<
ffffffffa0185375>] intel_set_rps+0x25/0x30 [i915]
[<
ffffffffa01768fd>] gen6_pm_rps_work+0x10d/0x2e0 [i915]
[<
ffffffff81063852>] ? finish_task_switch+0x72/0x1c0
[<
ffffffff8105ab29>] process_one_work+0x139/0x350
[<
ffffffff8105b186>] worker_thread+0x126/0x490
[<
ffffffff8105b060>] ? rescuer_thread+0x320/0x320
[<
ffffffff8105fa64>] kthread+0xc4/0xe0
[<
ffffffff8105f9a0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x170/0x170
[<
ffffffff814f351f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
[<
ffffffff8105f9a0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x170/0x170
I could not explain, or find a code path, which would explain
a +20 second lockup, but from some instrumentation it was
apparent the interrupts off proportion of time was between
10-25% under heavy load which is quite bad.
When a interrupt "cliff" is reached, which was >~320k irq/s on
my machine, the whole system goes into a terrible state of the
above described multi-second lockups.
By moving the GT interrupt handling to a tasklet in a most
simple way, the problem above disappears completely.
Testing the effect on sytem-wide latencies using
igt/gem_syslatency shows the following before this patch:
gem_syslatency: cycles=
1532739, latency mean=416531.829us max=2499237us
gem_syslatency: cycles=
1839434, latency mean=
1458099.157us max=4998944us
gem_syslatency: cycles=
1432570, latency mean=2688.451us max=1201185us
gem_syslatency: cycles=
1533543, latency mean=416520.499us max=2498886us
This shows that the unrelated process is experiencing huge
delays in its wake-up latency. After the patch the results
look like this:
gem_syslatency: cycles=808907, latency mean=53.133us max=1640us
gem_syslatency: cycles=862154, latency mean=62.778us max=2117us
gem_syslatency: cycles=856039, latency mean=58.079us max=2123us
gem_syslatency: cycles=841683, latency mean=56.914us max=1667us
Showing a huge improvement in the unrelated process wake-up
latency. It also shows an approximate halving in the number
of total empty batches submitted during the test. This may
not be worrying since the test puts the driver under
a very unrealistic load with ncpu threads doing empty batch
submission to all GPU engines each.
Another benefit compared to the hard-irq handling is that now
work on all engines can be dispatched in parallel since we can
have up to number of CPUs active tasklets. (While previously
a single hard-irq would serially dispatch on one engine after
another.)
More interesting scenario with regards to throughput is
"gem_latency -n 100" which shows 25% better throughput and
CPU usage, and 14% better dispatch latencies.
I did not find any gains or regressions with Synmark2 or
GLbench under light testing. More benchmarking is certainly
required.
v2:
* execlists_lock should be taken as spin_lock_bh when
queuing work from userspace now. (Chris Wilson)
* uncore.lock must be taken with spin_lock_irq when
submitting requests since that now runs from either
softirq or process context.
v3:
* Expanded commit message with more testing data;
* converted missed locking sites to _bh;
* added execlist_lock comment. (Chris Wilson)
v4:
* Mention dispatch parallelism in commit. (Chris Wilson)
* Do not hold uncore.lock over MMIO reads since the block
is already serialised per-engine via the tasklet itself.
(Chris Wilson)
* intel_lrc_irq_handler should be static. (Chris Wilson)
* Cancel/sync the tasklet on GPU reset. (Chris Wilson)
* Document and WARN that tasklet cannot be active/pending
on engine cleanup. (Chris Wilson/Imre Deak)
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Testcase: igt/gem_exec_nop/all
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94350
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1459768316-6670-1-git-send-email-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com