Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] fbdev/deferred-io: Support contiguous kernel memory framebuffers

Thomas Zimmermann
2025-06-05T15:36:00Z

Hi

Am 04.06.25 um 23:43 schrieb Michael Kelley:
[...]
> Nonetheless, there's an underlying issue. A main cause of the difference
> is the number of messages to Hyper-V to update dirty regions. With
> hyperv_fb using deferred I/O, the messages are limited 20/second, so
> the total number of messages to Hyper-V is about 480. But hyperv_drm
> appears to send 3 messages to Hyper-V for each line of output, or a total of
> about 3,000,000 messages (~90K/second). That's a lot of additional load
> on the Hyper-V host, and it adds the 10 seconds of additional elapsed
> time seen in the guest. There also this ugly output in dmesg because the
> ring buffer for sending messages to the Hyper-V host gets full -- Hyper-V
> doesn't always keep up, at least not on my local laptop where I'm
> testing:
>
> [12574.327615] hyperv_drm 5620e0c7-8062-4dce-aeb7-520c7ef76171: [drm] *ERROR* Unable to send packet via vmbus; error -11
> [12574.327684] hyperv_drm 5620e0c7-8062-4dce-aeb7-520c7ef76171: [drm] *ERROR* Unable to send packet via vmbus; error -11
> [12574.327760] hyperv_drm 5620e0c7-8062-4dce-aeb7-520c7ef76171: [drm] *ERROR* Unable to send packet via vmbus; error -11
> [12574.327841] hyperv_drm 5620e0c7-8062-4dce-aeb7-520c7ef76171: [drm] *ERROR* Unable to send packet via vmbus; error -11
> [12597.016128] hyperv_sendpacket: 6211 callbacks suppressed
> [12597.016133] hyperv_drm 5620e0c7-8062-4dce-aeb7-520c7ef76171: [drm] *ERROR* Unable to send packet via vmbus; error -11
> [12597.016172] hyperv_drm 5620e0c7-8062-4dce-aeb7-520c7ef76171: [drm] *ERROR* Unable to send packet via vmbus; error -11
> [12597.016220] hyperv_drm 5620e0c7-8062-4dce-aeb7-520c7ef76171: [drm] *ERROR* Unable to send packet via vmbus; error -11
> [12597.016267] hyperv_drm 5620e0c7-8062-4dce-aeb7-520c7ef76171: [drm] *ERROR* Unable to send packet via vmbus; error -11
>
> hyperv_drm could be fixed to not output the ugly messages, but there's
> still the underlying issue of overrunning the ring buffer, and excessively
> hammering on the host. If we could get hyperv_drm doing deferred I/O, I
> would feel much better about going full-on with deprecating hyperv_fb.

I try to address the problem with the patches at

https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250605152637.98493-1-tzimmermann@suse.de/

Testing and feedback is much appreciated.

Best regards
Thomas

>
> Michael
>

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