drm/mgag200: Add a workaround for low-latency

We found a regression in v5.10 on real-time server, using the
rt-kernel and the mgag200 driver. It's some really specialized
workload, with <10us latency expectation on isolated core.
After the v5.10, the real time tasks missed their <10us latency
when something prints on the screen (fbcon or printk)

The regression has been bisected to 2 commits:
commit 0b34d58b6c ("drm/mgag200: Enable caching for SHMEM pages")
commit 4862ffaec5 ("drm/mgag200: Move vmap out of commit tail")

The first one changed the system memory framebuffer from Write-Combine
to the default caching.
Before the second commit, the mgag200 driver used to unmap the
framebuffer after each frame, which implicitly does a cache flush.
Both regressions are fixed by this commit, which restore WC mapping
for the framebuffer in system memory, and add a cache flush.
This is only needed on x86_64, for low-latency workload,
so the new kconfig DRM_MGAG200_IOBURST_WORKAROUND depends on
PREEMPT_RT and X86.

For more context, the whole thread can be found here [1]

Signed-off-by: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20231019135655.313759-1-jfalempe@redhat.com/ # 1
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240208095125.377908-1-jfalempe@redhat.com
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Jocelyn Falempe
2024-02-08 10:51:10 +01:00
parent 0475184905
commit bfa4437fd3
3 changed files with 37 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <drm/drm_atomic.h>
#include <drm/drm_atomic_helper.h>
#include <drm/drm_cache.h>
#include <drm/drm_damage_helper.h>
#include <drm/drm_edid.h>
#include <drm/drm_format_helper.h>
@@ -436,6 +437,13 @@ static void mgag200_handle_damage(struct mga_device *mdev, const struct iosys_ma
iosys_map_incr(&dst, drm_fb_clip_offset(fb->pitches[0], fb->format, clip));
drm_fb_memcpy(&dst, fb->pitches, vmap, fb, clip);
/* Flushing the cache greatly improves latency on x86_64 */
#if defined(CONFIG_DRM_MGAG200_IOBURST_WORKAROUND)
if (!vmap->is_iomem)
drm_clflush_virt_range(vmap->vaddr + clip->y1 * fb->pitches[0],
drm_rect_height(clip) * fb->pitches[0]);
#endif
}
/*