Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] drm: Add fdinfo memory stats

Daniel Vetter
2023-04-16T07:48:56Z

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 06:40:27AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 1:57 AM Tvrtko Ursulin
> <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 13/04/2023 21:05, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 05:40:21PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 13/04/2023 14:27, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > >>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 01:58:34PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 12/04/2023 20:18, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > >>>>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 11:42:07AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > >>>>>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 11:17 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:59:54AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > >>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:42 AM Tvrtko Ursulin
> > >>>>>>>> <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> On 11/04/2023 23:56, Rob Clark wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>> From: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Add support to dump GEM stats to fdinfo.
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> v2: Fix typos, change size units to match docs, use div_u64
> > >>>>>>>>>> v3: Do it in core
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
> > >>>>>>>>>> ---
> > >>>>>>>>>> Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst | 21 ++++++++
> > >>>>>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >>>>>>>>>> include/drm/drm_file.h | 1 +
> > >>>>>>>>>> include/drm/drm_gem.h | 19 +++++++
> > >>>>>>>>>> 4 files changed, 117 insertions(+)
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst
> > >>>>>>>>>> index b46327356e80..b5e7802532ed 100644
> > >>>>>>>>>> --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst
> > >>>>>>>>>> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst
> > >>>>>>>>>> @@ -105,6 +105,27 @@ object belong to this client, in the respective memory region.
> > >>>>>>>>>> Default unit shall be bytes with optional unit specifiers of 'KiB' or 'MiB'
> > >>>>>>>>>> indicating kibi- or mebi-bytes.
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> +- drm-shared-memory: <uint> [KiB|MiB]
> > >>>>>>>>>> +
> > >>>>>>>>>> +The total size of buffers that are shared with another file (ie. have more
> > >>>>>>>>>> +than a single handle).
> > >>>>>>>>>> +
> > >>>>>>>>>> +- drm-private-memory: <uint> [KiB|MiB]
> > >>>>>>>>>> +
> > >>>>>>>>>> +The total size of buffers that are not shared with another file.
> > >>>>>>>>>> +
> > >>>>>>>>>> +- drm-resident-memory: <uint> [KiB|MiB]
> > >>>>>>>>>> +
> > >>>>>>>>>> +The total size of buffers that are resident in system memory.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> I think this naming maybe does not work best with the existing
> > >>>>>>>>> drm-memory-<region> keys.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Actually, it was very deliberate not to conflict with the existing
> > >>>>>>>> drm-memory-<region> keys ;-)
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> I wouldn't have preferred drm-memory-{active,resident,...} but it
> > >>>>>>>> could be mis-parsed by existing userspace so my hands were a bit tied.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> How about introduce the concept of a memory region from the start and
> > >>>>>>>>> use naming similar like we do for engines?
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> drm-memory-$CATEGORY-$REGION: ...
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Then we document a bunch of categories and their semantics, for instance:
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> 'size' - All reachable objects
> > >>>>>>>>> 'shared' - Subset of 'size' with handle_count > 1
> > >>>>>>>>> 'resident' - Objects with backing store
> > >>>>>>>>> 'active' - Objects in use, subset of resident
> > >>>>>>>>> 'purgeable' - Or inactive? Subset of resident.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> We keep the same semantics as with process memory accounting (if I got
> > >>>>>>>>> it right) which could be desirable for a simplified mental model.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> (AMD needs to remind me of their 'drm-memory-...' keys semantics. If we
> > >>>>>>>>> correctly captured this in the first round it should be equivalent to
> > >>>>>>>>> 'resident' above. In any case we can document no category is equal to
> > >>>>>>>>> which category, and at most one of the two must be output.)
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Region names we at most partially standardize. Like we could say
> > >>>>>>>>> 'system' is to be used where backing store is system RAM and others are
> > >>>>>>>>> driver defined.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Then discrete GPUs could emit N sets of key-values, one for each memory
> > >>>>>>>>> region they support.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> I think this all also works for objects which can be migrated between
> > >>>>>>>>> memory regions. 'Size' accounts them against all regions while for
> > >>>>>>>>> 'resident' they only appear in the region of their current placement, etc.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> I'm not too sure how to rectify different memory regions with this,
> > >>>>>>>> since drm core doesn't really know about the driver's memory regions.
> > >>>>>>>> Perhaps we can go back to this being a helper and drivers with vram
> > >>>>>>>> just don't use the helper? Or??
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> I think if you flip it around to drm-$CATEGORY-memory{-$REGION}: then it
> > >>>>>>> all works out reasonably consistently?
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> That is basically what we have now. I could append -system to each to
> > >>>>>> make things easier to add vram/etc (from a uabi standpoint)..
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> What you have isn't really -system, but everything. So doesn't really make
> > >>>>> sense to me to mark this -system, it's only really true for integrated (if
> > >>>>> they don't have stolen or something like that).
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Also my comment was more in reply to Tvrtko's suggestion.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Right so my proposal was drm-memory-$CATEGORY-$REGION which I think aligns
> > >>>> with the current drm-memory-$REGION by extending, rather than creating
> > >>>> confusion with different order of key name components.
> > >>>
> > >>> Oh my comment was pretty much just bikeshed, in case someone creates a
> > >>> $REGION that other drivers use for $CATEGORY. Kinda Rob's parsing point.
> > >>> So $CATEGORY before the -memory.
> > >>>
> > >>> Otoh I don't think that'll happen, so I guess we can go with whatever more
> > >>> folks like :-) I don't really care much personally.
> > >>
> > >> Okay I missed the parsing problem.
> > >>
> > >>>> AMD currently has (among others) drm-memory-vram, which we could define in
> > >>>> the spec maps to category X, if category component is not present.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Some examples:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> drm-memory-resident-system:
> > >>>> drm-memory-size-lmem0:
> > >>>> drm-memory-active-vram:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Etc.. I think it creates a consistent story.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Other than this, my two I think significant opens which haven't been
> > >>>> addressed yet are:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 1)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Why do we want totals (not per region) when userspace can trivially
> > >>>> aggregate if they want. What is the use case?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 2)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Current proposal limits the value to whole objects and fixates that by
> > >>>> having it in the common code. If/when some driver is able to support sub-BO
> > >>>> granularity they will need to opt out of the common printer at which point
> > >>>> it may be less churn to start with a helper rather than mid-layer. Or maybe
> > >>>> some drivers already support this, I don't know. Given how important VM BIND
> > >>>> is I wouldn't be surprised.
> > >>>
> > >>> I feel like for drivers using ttm we want a ttm helper which takes care of
> > >>> the region printing in hopefully a standard way. And that could then also
> > >>> take care of all kinds of of partial binding and funny rules (like maybe
> > >>> we want a standard vram region that addds up all the lmem regions on
> > >>> intel, so that all dgpu have a common vram bucket that generic tools
> > >>> understand?).
> > >>
> > >> First part yes, but for the second I would think we want to avoid any
> > >> aggregation in the kernel which can be done in userspace just as well. Such
> > >> total vram bucket would be pretty useless on Intel even since userspace
> > >> needs to be region aware to make use of all resources. It could even be
> > >> counter productive I think - "why am I getting out of memory when half of my
> > >> vram is unused!?".
> > >
> > > This is not for intel-aware userspace. This is for fairly generic "gputop"
> > > style userspace, which might simply have no clue or interest in what lmemX
> > > means, but would understand vram.
> > >
> > > Aggregating makes sense.
> >
> > Lmem vs vram is now an argument not about aggregation but about
> > standardizing regions names.
> >
> > One detail also is a change in philosophy compared to engine stats where
> > engine names are not centrally prescribed and it was expected userspace
> > will have to handle things generically and with some vendor specific
> > knowledge.
> >
> > Like in my gputop patches. It doesn't need to understand what is what,
> > it just finds what's there and presents it to the user.
> >
> > Come some accel driver with local memory it wouldn't be vram any more.
> > Or even a headless data center GPU. So I really don't think it is good
> > to hardcode 'vram' in the spec, or midlayer, or helpers.
> >
> > And for aggregation.. again, userspace can do it just as well. If we do
> > it in kernel then immediately we have multiple sets of keys to output
> > for any driver which wants to show the region view. IMO it is just
> > pointless work in the kernel and more code in the kernel, when userspace
> > can do it.
> >
> > Proposal A (one a discrete gpu, one category only):
> >
> > drm-resident-memory: x KiB
> > drm-resident-memory-system: x KiB
> > drm-resident-memory-vram: x KiB
> >
> > Two loops in the kernel, more parsing in userspace.
>
> why would it be more than one loop, ie.
>
> mem.resident += size;
> mem.category[cat].resident += size;
>
> At the end of the day, there is limited real-estate to show a million
> different columns of information. Even the gputop patches I posted
> don't show everything of what is currently there. And nvtop only
> shows toplevel resident stat. So I think the "everything" stat is
> going to be what most tools use.

Yeah with enough finesse the double-loop isn't needed, it's just the
simplest possible approach.

Also this is fdinfo, I _really_ want perf data showing that it's a
real-world problem when we conjecture about algorithmic complexity.
procutils have been algorithmically garbage since decades after all :-)

Cheers, Daniel

>
> BR,
> -R
>
> > Proposal B:
> >
> > drm-resident-memory-system: x KiB
> > drm-resident-memory-vram: x KiB
> >
> > Can be one loop, one helper, less text for userspace to parse and it can
> > still trivially show the total if so desired.
> >
> > For instance a helper (or two) with a common struct containing region
> > names and totals, where a callback into the driver tallies under each
> > region, as the drm helper is walking objects.
> >
> > >>> It does mean we walk the bo list twice, but *shrug*. People have been
> > >>> complaining about procutils for decades, they're still horrible, I think
> > >>> walking bo lists twice internally in the ttm case is going to be ok. If
> > >>> not, it's internals, we can change them again.
> > >>>
> > >>> Also I'd lean a lot more towards making ttm a helper and not putting that
> > >>> into core, exactly because it's pretty clear we'll need more flexibility
> > >>> when it comes to accurate stats for multi-region drivers.
> > >>
> > >> Exactly.
> > >>
> > >>> But for a first "how much gpu space does this app use" across everything I
> > >>> think this is a good enough starting point.
> > >>
> > >> Okay so we agree this would be better as a helper and not in the core.
> > >
> > > Nope, if you mean with this = Rob's patch. I was talking about a
> > > hypothetical region-aware extension for ttm-using drivers.
> > >
> > >> On the point are keys/semantics good enough as a starting point I am still
> > >> not convinced kernel should aggregate and that instead we should start from
> > >> day one by appending -system (or something) to Rob's proposed keys.
> > >
> > > It should imo. Inflicting driver knowledge on generic userspace makes not
> > > much sense, we should start with the more generally useful stuff imo.
> > > That's why there's the drm fdinfo spec and all that so it's not a
> > > free-for-all.
> > >
> > > Also Rob's stuff is _not_ system. Check on a i915 dgpu if you want :-)
> >
> > I am well aware it adds up everything, that is beside the point.
> >
> > Drm-usage-stats.rst text needs to be more precise across all keys at least:
> >
> > +- drm-resident-memory: <uint> [KiB|MiB]
> > +
> > +The total size of buffers that are resident in system memory.
> >
> > But as said, I don't see the point in providing aggregated values.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tvrtko

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation