linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio-gpu: Add user pointer and HSAKMT support enhancements

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Message-ID: <2d688a6b-38d1-47ed-9c9f-f0c7cd1e0737@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 15:53:52 +0800
From: Honglei Huang <honghuan@....com>
To: alex.bennee@...aro.org, kraxel@...hat.com, dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com,
 Ray.Huang@....com
Cc: gurchetansingh@...omium.org, olvaffe@...il.com,
 maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com, mripard@...nel.org, tzimmermann@...e.de,
 simona@...ll.ch, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio-gpu: Add user pointer and HSAKMT support
 enhancements



Correction: full documentation and testing resources are available at:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/virgl/virglrenderer/-/merge_requests/1568

On 2025/12/8 15:50, Honglei Huang wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to share some progress that has been made in exploring GPU 
> compute capabilities within virtio-gpu. Work has been undertaken to 
> extend virtio-gpu beyond traditional graphics workloads to support 
> compute applications, and I wanted to update the community on the 
> current status and gather feedback on this effort.
> 
> Virtio-gpu has the potential to become a unified solution for both 
> graphics and compute, providing efficient GPU access in virtualized 
> environments. This work aims to enable modern GPU compute stacks like 
> ROCm, allowing AI/ML workloads and scientific computing to run in 
> virtual machines with minimal performance penalty.
> 
> The current implementation is functional with essential features enabled 
> and operational. The implementation has been validated with production 
> AI workloads. For ComfyUI image/video generation on AMD W7900, the 
> observed overhead ranges from 0.4% to 8.3% across different tasks. For 
> LLM inference using deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b, the implementation 
> achieved approximately 86% efficiency with 14% virtualization overhead. 
> For OpenCL, most CTS tests have also been validated, and on certain 
> hardware platforms, full CTS can be fully validated.
> 
> As someone approaching this work as a learner, I would greatly 
> appreciate feedback from the community. The current functionality and 
> performance are not bad, there are certainly areas that could benefit 
> from improvement. I am fully committed to addressing any feedback 
> received and working with the community to refine the implementation to 
> meet the expected standards.
> 
> Full documentation and testing resources are available at: https:// 
> gitlab.freedesktop.org/virgl/virglrenderer/-/merge_requests/1475
> 
> Thank you for your time and consideration. I welcome all feedback, 
> questions, and suggestions.
> 
> Best regards,
> Honglei Huang
> 
> On 2025/11/12 15:54, Honglei Huang wrote:
>> This patch series introduces three key enhancements to virtio-gpu to 
>> improve
>> memory management and GPU virtualization capabilities:
>>
>> 1. VIRTIO_GPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_USERPTR support: Enables user pointer mapping
>>     for blob resources, allowing guest applications to use user-allocated
>>     memory for GPU resources more efficiently.
>>
>> 2. Configurable HSAKMT capset support: Provides better control over 
>> HSAKMT
>>     functionality with a new device property "hsakmt=on" to avoid 
>> exposing
>>     unsupported capabilities to guests.
>>
>> 3. VIRTIO_GPU_F_RESOURCE_USERPTR feature support: Introduces a new 
>> virtio-gpu
>>     feature flag with configurable "userptr=on" device property to enable
>>     user pointer resources for enhanced memory management.
>>
>> These patches work together to provide more flexible and efficient memory
>> management between guest and host in GPU virtualization scenarios. The
>> changes are backward compatible and controlled by new device properties.
>>
>> Usage examples:
>>    -device virtio-gpu-gl,hsakmt=on,userptr=on
>>
>> The series has been tested with GPU workloads requiring advanced memory
>> management capabilities.
>>
>> Honglei Huang (3):
>>    virtio-gpu: Add support for VIRTIO_GPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_USERPTR flag
>>    virtio-gpu: add configurable HSAKMT capset support
>>    virtio-gpu: Add VIRTIO_GPU_F_RESOURCE_USERPTR feature support
>>
>>   hw/display/virtio-gpu-base.c                |  3 +++
>>   hw/display/virtio-gpu-gl.c                  |  2 ++
>>   hw/display/virtio-gpu-virgl.c               | 30 ++++++++++++++++-----
>>   hw/display/virtio-gpu.c                     |  9 ++-----
>>   include/hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h              |  6 +++++
>>   include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_gpu.h |  4 +++
>>   6 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>