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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 08:21:25 +0200
From: Philipp Stanner <phasta@...lbox.org>
To: Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pierre-eric@...sy.net>, phasta@...nel.org,
Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@....com>, Matthew
Brost <matthew.brost@...el.com>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
Christian König <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@...il.com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard
<mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David
Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] drm/sched: limit sched score update to jobs
change
On Mon, 2025-09-01 at 15:14 +0200, Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer wrote:
>
>
> Le 25/08/2025 à 15:13, Philipp Stanner a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 15:43 +0200, Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer wrote:
> > > Currently, the scheduler score is incremented when a job is pushed to an
> > > entity and when an entity is attached to the scheduler.
> >
> > It's indeed awkward why attaching is treated equivalently to job
> > submission.
> >
> > Can you expand the documentation for drm_sched_init_args a bit so that
> > it gets clearer what the score is supposed to do?
>
>
> drm_sched_init_args.score is the feature allowing multiple schedulers to share a
> score so I suppose you meant drm_gpu_scheduler.score?
I mean both.
struct drm_sched_init_args has a @score which is passed by the driver
during init and will then be stored in drm_gpu_scheduler.score
The docu should be improved for both.
>
> The doc currently says "score to help loadbalancer pick a idle sched" which is a
> bit vague. It could be modified to become:
>
> @score: holds the number of yet-to-be-completed jobs pushed to each scheduler.
> It's used when load balancing between different schedulers.
"to each scheduler" reads a bit as if each scheduler has an individual
score. Is it used that way, though? I think it's a pointer because all
schedulers share this atomic. Thus, it "holds the total number of yet-
to-be-completed jobs for all schedulers sharing this atomic", right?
>
> What do you think?
>
> >
> > >
> > > This leads to some bad scheduling decision where the score value is
> > > largely made of idle entities.
> > >
> > > For instance, a scenario with 2 schedulers and where 10 entities submit
> > > a single job, then do nothing, each scheduler will probably end up with
> > > a score of 5.
> > > Now, 5 userspace apps exit, so their entities will be dropped.
> > >
> >
> > "entities will be dropped" == "drm_sched_entity_kill() gets called",
> > right?
>
> Yes.
then nit: better say "their entities will be killed" instead of
dropped.
>
> > > In
> > > the worst case, these apps' entities where all attached to the same
> >
> > s/where/were
> >
> > or better yet: "could be"
>
> Will fix, thanks.
>
> >
> > > scheduler and we end up with score=5 (the 5 remaining entities) and
> > > score=0, despite the 2 schedulers being idle.
> >
> > Sounds indeed like a (small) problem to me.
> >
> >
> > > When new entities show up, they will all select the second scheduler
> > > based on its low score value, instead of alternating between the 2.
> > >
> > > Some amdgpu rings depended on this feature, but the previous commit
> > > implemented the same thing in amdgpu directly so it can be safely
> > > removed from drm/sched.
> >
> > Can we be that sure that other drivers don't depend on it, though? I
> > suspect it's likely that it's just amdgpu, but…
> >
>
> Aside from the new "rocket" as pointed out by Tvrtko, amdgpu is the only driver
> passing more than one schedulers to entities so they're the only ones that could
> be affected.
>
> I verified amdgpu and Tvrtko pinged the rocket maintainers in the other thread.
Very good! Then let's give those guys a few days to jump into the
discussion.
>
> >
> >
> > BTW, since you're cleaning up related stuff currently: I saw that it
> > seems that the only driver that sets &struct drm_sched_init_args.score
> > is amdgpu. Would be cool if you can take a look whether that's still
> > needed.
>
> It cannot really be removed yet as it's useful when a single hardware block is
> exposed through different schedulers (so pushing jobs to one of the schedulers
> should increase the load of the underlying hw).
OK.
Thx
P.
>
> Thanks,
> Pierre-Eric
>
> >
> >
> > P.
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@....com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c | 2 --
> > > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> > > index 5a550fd76bf0..e6d232a8ec58 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
> > > @@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ void drm_sched_rq_add_entity(struct drm_sched_rq *rq,
> > > if (!list_empty(&entity->list))
> > > return;
> > >
> > > - atomic_inc(rq->sched->score);
> > > list_add_tail(&entity->list, &rq->entities);
> > > }
> > >
> > > @@ -228,7 +227,6 @@ void drm_sched_rq_remove_entity(struct drm_sched_rq *rq,
> > >
> > > spin_lock(&rq->lock);
> > >
> > > - atomic_dec(rq->sched->score);
> > > list_del_init(&entity->list);
> > >
> > > if (rq->current_entity == entity)
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