linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Make use of non-dynamic dmabuf in RDMA

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Date:   Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:35:57 -0700
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Gal Pressman <galpress@...zon.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        "open list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rdma <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@...ana.ai>,
        Tomer Tayar <ttayar@...ana.ai>,
        Yossi Leybovich <sleybo@...zon.com>,
        Alexander Matushevsky <matua@...zon.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        Jianxin Xiong <jianxin.xiong@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make use of non-dynamic dmabuf in RDMA

On 8/24/21 10:32 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
...
>>> And yes at least for the amdgpu driver we migrate the memory to host
>>> memory as soon as it is pinned and I would expect that other GPU drivers
>>> do something similar.
>>
>> Well...for many topologies, migrating to host memory will result in a
>> dramatically slower p2p setup. For that reason, some GPU drivers may
>> want to allow pinning of video memory in some situations.
>>
>> Ideally, you've got modern ODP devices and you don't even need to pin.
>> But if not, and you still hope to do high performance p2p between a GPU
>> and a non-ODP Infiniband device, then you would need to leave the pinned
>> memory in vidmem.
>>
>> So I think we don't want to rule out that behavior, right? Or is the
>> thinking more like, "you're lucky that this old non-ODP setup works at
>> all, and we'll make it work by routing through host/cpu memory, but it
>> will be slow"?
> 
> I think it depends on the user, if the user creates memory which is
> permanently located on the GPU then it should be pinnable in this way
> without force migration. But if the memory is inherently migratable
> then it just cannot be pinned in the GPU at all as we can't
> indefinately block migration from happening eg if the CPU touches it
> later or something.
> 

OK. I just want to avoid creating any API-level assumptions that dma_buf_pin()
necessarily implies or requires migrating to host memory.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA