From: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
To: intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: "Carlos Santa" <carlos.santa@intel.com>,
"Ryan Neph" <ryanneph@google.com>,
"Christian Koenig" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
"Huang Rui" <ray.huang@amd.com>,
"Matthew Auld" <matthew.auld@intel.com>,
"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
"Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 01/33] drm/ttm/pool: Allow backing off reclaim at the beneficial order
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:54:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710215442.2444235-2-matthew.brost@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260710215442.2444235-1-matthew.brost@intel.com>
Allocating at the pool's beneficial order normally uses
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL to push hard for a contiguous high-order page. When
beneficial-order allocations have recently been failing, this retry just
burns CPU cycles in reclaim/compaction before falling back to a smaller
order anyway.
Add a beneficial_reclaim_backoff flag to struct ttm_operation_ctx and
plumb it through to ttm_pool_alloc_page(). When set, the beneficial
order is treated like the orders we already consider not worth stalling
for: __GFP_RECLAIM is cleared so the allocation skips reclaim/compaction
entirely, and the __GFP_NORETRY clearing / __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL promotion
is skipped. Together this makes the allocator back off quickly to a
smaller order instead of stalling.
This is a no-op until a caller opts in.
Cc: Carlos Santa <carlos.santa@intel.com>
Cc: Ryan Neph <ryanneph@google.com>
Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: GitHub_Copilot:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c | 12 ++++++++----
include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
index 3d5f2ae0a456..dbe977412a81 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ static int ttm_pool_nid(struct ttm_pool *pool)
/* Allocate pages of size 1 << order with the given gfp_flags */
static struct page *ttm_pool_alloc_page(struct ttm_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags,
- unsigned int order)
+ unsigned int order,
+ bool beneficial_reclaim_backoff)
{
const unsigned int beneficial_order = ttm_pool_beneficial_order(pool);
unsigned long attr = DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS;
@@ -165,10 +166,12 @@ static struct page *ttm_pool_alloc_page(struct ttm_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags,
* Do not add latency to the allocation path for allocations orders
* device tolds us do not bring them additional performance gains.
*/
- if (order && beneficial_order && order != beneficial_order)
+ if (order && (beneficial_reclaim_backoff ||
+ (beneficial_order && order != beneficial_order)))
gfp_flags &= ~__GFP_RECLAIM;
- if (beneficial_order && order == beneficial_order) {
+ if (!beneficial_reclaim_backoff &&
+ beneficial_order && order == beneficial_order) {
gfp_flags &= ~__GFP_NORETRY;
gfp_flags |= __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL;
}
@@ -814,7 +817,8 @@ static int __ttm_pool_alloc(struct ttm_pool *pool, struct ttm_tt *tt,
if (!p) {
page_caching = ttm_cached;
allow_pools = false;
- p = ttm_pool_alloc_page(pool, gfp_flags, order);
+ p = ttm_pool_alloc_page(pool, gfp_flags, order,
+ ctx->beneficial_reclaim_backoff);
}
/* If that fails, lower the order if possible and retry. */
if (!p) {
diff --git a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h
index 8310bc3d55f9..fd814b5cf535 100644
--- a/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h
+++ b/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.h
@@ -187,6 +187,13 @@ struct ttm_operation_ctx {
* when multiple BOs share the same reservation object @resv.
*/
bool allow_res_evict;
+ /**
+ * @beneficial_reclaim_backoff: Back off from direct reclaim at the
+ * pool's beneficial order. Useful when beneficial-order allocation has
+ * recently been failing, to avoid burning CPU cycles in
+ * reclaim/compaction before falling back to a smaller order anyway.
+ */
+ bool beneficial_reclaim_backoff;
/**
* @resv: Reservation object to be used together with
* @allow_res_evict.
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-10 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-10 21:54 [PATCH v2 00/33] drm/ttm, drm/xe: Minimize dma-resv hold times and defragment sub-optimally backed BOs Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` Matthew Brost [this message]
2026-07-10 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 01/33] drm/ttm/pool: Allow backing off reclaim at the beneficial order sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 02/33] drm/ttm/pool: Add ttm_pool_page_order_nodma() helper Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 03/33] drm/ttm: Record sub-optimal page order allocations in ttm_tt Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 04/33] drm/ttm: Introduce ttm_pool_alloc_iter for __ttm_pool_alloc() Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:03 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 05/33] drm/ttm: Support defragmentation moves Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 06/33] drm/ttm: Add fault injection for beneficial-order allocation failures Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 07/33] drm/ttm: Harvest beneficial-order pages on defragmentation moves Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:19 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 08/33] drm/ttm: Bound page (re)allocation per defragmentation move Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:17 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 09/33] drm/ttm: Preallocate beneficial-order defrag pages outside the lock Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 10/33] drm/ttm: Add full out-of-lock preallocation for ttm_pool_alloc() Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 11/33] drm/gpusvm: Add a DMA-mapping accounting callback Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:10 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 12/33] drm/xe: Add debugfs stats for DMA-mapped pages per order Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:23 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 13/33] drm/xe: Flush L2 asynchronously in xe_bo_trigger_rebind() Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 14/33] drm/xe: Destroy page tables after unlinking all VMAs on VM close Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 15/33] drm/xe: Track BOs backed at a sub-optimal page order Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 16/33] drm/xe: Back off beneficial-order reclaim under defrag pressure Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 17/33] drm/xe: Add xe_migrate_copy_defrag() for on-GPU defrag copies Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:17 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 18/33] drm/xe: Handle defrag moves in xe_bo_move() Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:25 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 19/33] drm/xe: Skip self-copies for borrowed pages on defrag moves Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 20/33] drm/xe: Add a page defragmentation worker Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:24 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 21/33] drm/xe: Add defrag GT stats Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:16 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 22/33] drm/xe: Add Kconfig.profile options for BO defrag configuration Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 23/33] drm/xe: Defrag using out-of-lock page preallocation Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:27 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 24/33] drm/xe: Add defrag profiling tracepoints Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 25/33] drm/xe: Preallocate system BO backing outside the dma-resv lock Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:21 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 26/33] drm/xe: Add tracepoint for xe_gem_create_ioctl Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:20 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 27/33] drm/xe: Add IOVA-based xe_res_cursor variant Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:24 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 28/33] drm/xe: Use IOVA-based DMA mapping for eligible tt BOs Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 29/33] drm/xe: Add per-device dependency scheduler for IOVA defrag finalize Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:27 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 30/33] drm/xe: Add packed copy-step IOVA mapping for defrag Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 31/33] drm/xe: Blit src-natural to dst-packed for defrag-IOVA copies Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:30 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 32/33] drm/xe: Finalize defrag-IOVA moves with post-copy job Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:36 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-10 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 33/33] drm/amdgpu: Preallocate system BO pages outside the reservation lock Matthew Brost
2026-07-10 22:29 ` sashiko-bot
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