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From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Maling list - DRI developers <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] drm/mm: Remove DRM_MM_SEARCH_BEST
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:47:22 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5458929A.7030203@daenzer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADnq5_PH=u8K2LvEFUY2OCGvwtYEgEezoS1ep0AfSemA-OwA9A@mail.gmail.com>

On 01.11.2014 03:10, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
>> From: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com>
>>
>> In the words of Daniel Vetter:
>>
>> «I think SEARCH_BEST is pretty much always a bad idea - it rips apart
>> allocations from the same execbuf, and usually those get recycled around
>> the same time. Which means you'll just fragment your mm even more if you
>> try to find the best hole instead of just picking one and the stuffing
>> the entire execbuf into it. So imo we might as well just kill it.»
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com>
>
> Applied this series to my -next tree.

Thanks. Unfortunately, the removal of DRM_MM_SEARCH_BEST caused 
performance regressions, presumably due to excessive eviction from VRAM, 
see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84662#c49 . I can 
reproduce a significant bad effect with the UE4 Elemental demo on my 
development machine. Please drop this patch.

The original patches 4 & 5 have the same effect, so they shouldn't be 
applied either. Maybe we can try this again once TTM is using the MM 
scan roaster for eviction.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer            |                  http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast          |                Mesa and X developer
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-04  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-28  9:35 [PATCH 1/5] drm/radeon: Set TTM_PL_FLAG_TOPDOWN also for RADEON_GEM_CPU_ACCESS BOs Michel Dänzer
2014-10-28  9:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] drm/ttm: Add DRM_MM_SEARCH_BELOW for TTM_PL_FLAG_TOPDOWN Michel Dänzer
2014-10-28  9:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] drm/ttm: Use only " Michel Dänzer
2014-10-28 11:10   ` Daniel Vetter
2014-10-30  8:41     ` Michel Dänzer
2014-10-30 15:07     ` Thomas Hellstrom
2014-10-31 17:19       ` Daniel Vetter
2014-10-28  9:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] drm/ttm: Add TTM_PL_FLAG_BOTTOMUP Michel Dänzer
2014-10-30  8:36   ` [PATCH 4/4] drm/mm: Remove DRM_MM_SEARCH_BEST Michel Dänzer
2014-10-31 18:10     ` Alex Deucher
2014-11-04  8:47       ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2014-11-04 14:30         ` Alex Deucher
2014-10-28  9:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] drm/radeon: Use TTM_PL_FLAG_BOTTOMUP Michel Dänzer
2014-10-28 10:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] drm/radeon: Set TTM_PL_FLAG_TOPDOWN also for RADEON_GEM_CPU_ACCESS BOs Lauri Kasanen

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