linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 19/28] drm/ttm: rework pipelined eviction fence handling

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Message-ID: <847eb5a7-7464-40f2-81ea-7bf2ff009a31@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:39:59 +0100
From: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>
To: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
 Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@....com>,
 Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>, Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@...el.com>,
 Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@...el.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 19/28] drm/ttm: rework pipelined eviction fence
 handling

Hey,

Den 2025-11-26 kl. 16:36, skrev Christian König:
> On 11/26/25 16:34, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Den 2025-11-21 kl. 16:12, skrev Christian König:
>>> On 11/21/25 11:12, Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer wrote:
>>>> Until now ttm stored a single pipelined eviction fence which means
>>>> drivers had to use a single entity for these evictions.
>>>>
>>>> To lift this requirement, this commit allows up to 8 entities to
>>>> be used.
>>>>
>>>> Ideally a dma_resv object would have been used as a container of
>>>> the eviction fences, but the locking rules makes it complex.
>>>> dma_resv all have the same ww_class, which means "Attempting to
>>>> lock more mutexes after ww_acquire_done." is an error.
>>>>
>>>> One alternative considered was to introduced a 2nd ww_class for
>>>> specific resv to hold a single "transient" lock (= the resv lock
>>>> would only be held for a short period, without taking any other
>>>> locks).
>>>>
>>>> The other option, is to statically reserve a fence array, and
>>>> extend the existing code to deal with N fences, instead of 1.
>>>>
>>>> The driver is still responsible to reserve the correct number
>>>> of fence slots.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> v2:
>>>> - simplified code
>>>> - dropped n_fences
>>>> - name changes
>>>> v3: use ttm_resource_manager_cleanup
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@....com>
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
>>>
>>> Going to push separately to drm-misc-next on Monday.
>>>
>> Pushing this broke drm-tip, the amd driver fails to build, as it's not using the eviction_fences array.
> 
> Thanks for the note! But hui? We changed amdgpu to not touch the move fence.
> 
> Give me a second.commit 13bec21f5f4cdabdf06725e5a8dee0b9b56ff671 (HEAD -> drm-tip, drm-tip/drm-tip, drm-tip/HEAD)

Author: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
Date:   Wed Nov 26 13:13:03 2025 +0100

    drm-tip: 2025y-11m-26d-12h-12m-41s UTC integration manifest

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c:2188:34: error: ‘struct ttm_resource_manager’ has no member named ‘move’
 2188 |                 dma_fence_put(man->move);
      |                                  ^~
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c:2189:20: error: ‘struct ttm_resource_manager’ has no member named ‘move’
 2189 |                 man->move = NULL;
      |                    ^~

Is what I see.

Kind regards,
~Maarten Lankhorst