Re: [PATCH drm-misc-next 2/3] drm/gpuva_mgr: generalize dma_resv/extobj handling and GEM validation

Dave Airlie
2023-10-10T20:23:33Z

> I think we're then optimizing for different scenarios. Our compute
> driver will use mostly external objects only, and if shared, I don't
> forsee them bound to many VMs. What saves us currently here is that in
> compute mode we only really traverse the extobj list after a preempt
> fence wait, or when a vm is using a new context for the first time. So
> vm's extobj list is pretty large. Each bo's vma list will typically be
> pretty small.

Can I ask why we are optimising for this userspace, this seems
incredibly broken.

We've has this sort of problem in the past with Intel letting the tail
wag the horse, does anyone remember optimising relocations for a
userspace that didn't actually need to use relocations?

We need to ask why this userspace is doing this, can we get some
pointers to it? compute driver should have no reason to use mostly
external objects, the OpenCL and level0 APIs should be good enough to
figure this out.

Dave.