linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] drm/nouveau: Enable variable page sizes and compression

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Message-ID: <fb24b7b3a9ed6305cb210ec7c9aed6ca5390049d.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:37:50 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Mohamed Ahmed <mohamedahmedegypt2001@...il.com>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Mary Guillemard <mary@...y.zone>, Faith
 Ekstrand <faith.ekstrand@...labora.com>, Danilo Krummrich
 <dakr@...nel.org>, 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>, 	nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] drm/nouveau: Enable variable page sizes and
 compression

BTW - I'm still looking through this series, but it probably wouldn't hurt in
the future to make sure the version in the patch header gets applied to all
patches in the series and not just the cover letter (just since this
definitely confused me for a moment).

On Fri, 2025-10-10 at 02:38 +0300, Mohamed Ahmed wrote:
> The new VM_BIND interface only supported 4K pages. This was problematic as
> it left performance on the table because GPUs don't have sophisticated TLB
> and page walker hardware. 
> 
> Additionally, the HW can only do compression on large (64K) and huge (2M)
> pages, which is a major performance booster (>50% in some cases).
> 
> This patchset sets out to add support for larger page sizes and also
> enable compression and set the compression tags when userspace binds with
> the corresponding PTE kinds and alignment. It also increments the nouveau
> version number which allows userspace to use compression only when the
> kernel actually supports both features and avoid breaking the system if a
> newer mesa version is paired with an older kernel version.
> 
> For the associated userspace MR, please see !36450:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/36450
> 
> - v2: Implement review comments.
> - v1: Initial implementation.
> 
> Ben Skeggs (2):
>   drm/nouveau/mmu/gp100: Remove unused/broken support for compression
>   drm/nouveau/mmu/tu102: Add support for compressed kinds
> 
> Mary Guillemard (2):
>   drm/nouveau/uvmm: Prepare for larger pages
>   drm/nouveau/uvmm: Allow larger pages
> 
> Mohamed Ahmed (1):
>   drm/nouveau/drm: Bump the driver version to 1.4.1 to report new
>     features
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h         |  4 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c        | 71 ++++++++++++++-----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.h        |  1 +
>  .../drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/vmmgp100.c    | 69 ++++++++++--------
>  .../drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/vmmgp10b.c    |  4 +-
>  5 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

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