From: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
To: intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>,
"Matthew Brost" <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] drm/xe/bo: optimise TT population for DONTNEED BOs
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:34:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260723133418.1201717-2-matthew.auld@intel.com> (raw)
When a VRAM buffer object is marked as DONTNEED, like in Mesa, the
driver skips migrating its contents to system memory and instead purges
the backing store during eviction (via xe_ttm_bo_purge).
However, xe_evict_flags() still returns tt_placement (XE_PL_TT) for VRAM
BOs even if they were marked DONTNEED. This causes
ttm_bo_handle_move_mem() to call always call ttm_bo_populate() to
allocate destination system pages, only for those pages to be
immediately freed right after when xe_bo_move() calls xe_ttm_bo_purge().
Fix this by changing xe_evict_flags() to return sys_placement
(XE_PL_SYSTEM) for DONTNEED BOs. This causes TTM to skip the population
step while still ensuring that TTM calls xe_bo_move(), so
xe_ttm_bo_purge() still triggers.
Assisted-by: Copilot:gemini-3.1-pro-preview
Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c
index c266fa6bade1..1daa80079608 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c
@@ -341,6 +341,11 @@ static void xe_evict_flags(struct ttm_buffer_object *tbo,
return;
}
+ if (xe_bo_madv_is_dontneed(bo)) {
+ *placement = sys_placement;
+ return;
+ }
+
/*
* For xe, sg bos that are evicted to system just triggers a
* rebind of the sg list upon subsequent validation to XE_PL_TT.
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-23 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-23 13:34 Matthew Auld [this message]
2026-07-23 13:39 ` [PATCH] drm/xe/bo: optimise TT population for DONTNEED BOs Maarten Lankhorst
2026-07-23 13:42 ` ✓ CI.KUnit: success for " Patchwork
2026-07-23 14:17 ` ✓ Xe.CI.BAT: " Patchwork
2026-07-23 16:00 ` [PATCH] " Thomas Hellström
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