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

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Message-ID: <42f0dd58670b4c39141ed229e8169842b96cb861.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:40:22 -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

Oh - also, definitely a more granular changelog would help too (e.g.
mentioning what exactly you changed).

On Wed, 2025-10-22 at 16:37 -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> 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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