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From: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
To: "Wang, Zhi A" <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>,
	"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	"intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"igvt-g@lists.01.org" <igvt-g@lists.01.org>
Cc: "daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"Cowperthwaite, David J" <david.j.cowperthwaite@intel.com>,
	"Lv, Zhiyuan" <zhiyuan.lv@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFCv2 10/14] drm/i915: update PDPs by condition when submit the LRC context
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:49:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456494589.7316.11.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F3B0350DF4CB6849A642218320DE483D4B8FA2BE@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>

Hi,

On to, 2016-02-25 at 15:02 +0000, Wang, Zhi A wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tian, Kevin 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:50 PM
> To: Wang, Zhi A; intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org; igvt-g@lists.01.org
> Cc: Lv, Zhiyuan; Niu, Bing; Song, Jike; daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch; Cowperthwaite, David J; chris@chris-wilson.co.uk; joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com
> Subject: RE: [RFCv2 10/14] drm/i915: update PDPs by condition when submit the LRC context
> 
> > 
> > From: Wang, Zhi A
> > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 7:42 PM
> > 
> > Previously the PDPs inside the ring context are updated at:
> > 
> > - When populate a LRC context
> > - Before submitting a LRC context (only for 32 bit PPGTT, as the amount
> > of used PDPs may change)
> > 
> > This patch postpones the PDPs upgrade to submission time, and will update
> > it by condition if the PPGTT is 48b. Under GVT-g, one GVT context will be
> > used by different guest, the PPGTT instance related to the context might
> > be changed before the submission time. And this patch gives GVT context
> > a chance to load the new PPGTT instance into an initialized context.
> Could you elaborate why we share one GVT context across different guest?
> A natural thought is that we'll create one GVT context per every guest
> context...
> 
> [Zhi] We don't have context creation/destroy notification in guest i915 driver.
> Because in our implementation we need an unique context id to anchor the
> relationship between shadow context and guest context, while i915 uses GGTT
> address as context id. In each context pin/unpin, the context id may be changes.

Does not this lead to plenty of unnecessary storing and restoring of
the context parameters?

I would imagine this to destroy performance.

Regards, Joonas

> 
> So it's not necessary to allocate multiple GVT context here. 
> 
> Thanks
> Kevin
-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-26 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 11:42 [RFCv2 PATCH 00/14] gvt: Hacking i915 for GVT context requirement Zhi Wang
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 01/14] drm/i915: factor out i915_pvinfo.h Zhi Wang
2016-02-22 13:23   ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-02-23  2:40     ` Zhi Wang
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 02/14] drm/i915/gvt: Introduce the basic architecture of GVT-g Zhi Wang
2016-02-23 12:42   ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-02-24  7:45     ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-25 11:24       ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-02-26  5:58     ` Zhi Wang
2016-02-23 12:53   ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-02-24  7:50     ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-24  8:08   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-26  5:38     ` Zhi Wang
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 03/14] drm/i915: Introduce host graphics memory/fence partition for GVT-g Zhi Wang
2016-02-23 13:16   ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-02-23 13:23     ` Zhi Wang
2016-02-24  7:42       ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-25 13:13         ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-02-26  5:21         ` Zhi Wang
2016-02-26 13:54           ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-02-23 13:26     ` Joonas Lahtinen
2016-02-24  8:22   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-26  5:29     ` Zhi Wang
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 04/14] drm/i915: factor out alloc_context_idr() and __i915_gem_create_context() Zhi Wang
2016-02-24  8:27   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 05/14] drm/i915: factor out __create_legacy_hw_context() Zhi Wang
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 06/14] drm/i915: let __i915_gem_context_create() takes context creation params Zhi Wang
2016-02-24  8:35   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 07/14] drm/i915: factor out __intel_lr_context_deferred_alloc() Zhi Wang
2016-02-24  8:37   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 08/14] drm/i915: Support per-PPGTT address space mode Zhi Wang
2016-02-24  8:47   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 09/14] drm/i915: generate address mode bit from PPGTT instance Zhi Wang
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 10/14] drm/i915: update PDPs by condition when submit the LRC context Zhi Wang
2016-02-24  8:49   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-25 15:02     ` Wang, Zhi A
2016-02-26 13:49       ` Joonas Lahtinen [this message]
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 11/14] drm/i915: Introduce execlist context status change notification Zhi Wang
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 12/14] drm/i915: factor out execlists_i915_pick_requests() Zhi Wang
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 13/14] drm/i915: Support context single submission when GVT is active Zhi Wang
2016-02-24  8:52   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-18 11:42 ` [RFCv2 14/14] drm/i915: Introduce GVT context creation API Zhi Wang
2016-02-18 12:02 ` ✗ Fi.CI.BAT: failure for gvt: Hacking i915 for GVT context requirement Patchwork
2016-02-24  8:55 ` [RFCv2 PATCH 00/14] " Tian, Kevin
2016-02-24  9:18   ` Wang, Zhi A
2016-02-24  9:38     ` Tian, Kevin

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