drm/i915: Shrink the GEM kmem_caches upon idling

When we finally decide the gpu is idle, that is a good time to shrink
our kmem_caches.

v3: Defer until an rcu grace period after we idle.
v4: Think about epoch wraparound and how likely that is.
v5: Use I915_EPOCH_INVALID magic.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180124113608.14909-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index 7f0684c..ba43482 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -3334,6 +3334,65 @@ i915_gem_retire_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
        }
 }
 
+static void shrink_caches(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
+{
+       /*
+        * kmem_cache_shrink() discards empty slabs and reorders partially
+        * filled slabs to prioritise allocating from the mostly full slabs,
+        * with the aim of reducing fragmentation.
+        */
+       kmem_cache_shrink(i915->priorities);
+       kmem_cache_shrink(i915->dependencies);
+       kmem_cache_shrink(i915->requests);
+       kmem_cache_shrink(i915->luts);
+       kmem_cache_shrink(i915->vmas);
+       kmem_cache_shrink(i915->objects);
+}
+
+struct sleep_rcu_work {
+       union {
+               struct rcu_head rcu;
+               struct work_struct work;
+       };
+       struct drm_i915_private *i915;
+       unsigned int epoch;
+};
+
+static inline bool
+same_epoch(struct drm_i915_private *i915, unsigned int epoch)
+{
+       /*
+        * There is a small chance that the epoch wrapped since we started
+        * sleeping. If we assume that epoch is at least a u32, then it will
+        * take at least 2^32 * 100ms for it to wrap, or about 326 years.
+        */
+       return epoch == READ_ONCE(i915->gt.epoch);
+}
+
+static void __sleep_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+       struct sleep_rcu_work *s = container_of(work, typeof(*s), work);
+       struct drm_i915_private *i915 = s->i915;
+       unsigned int epoch = s->epoch;
+
+       kfree(s);
+       if (same_epoch(i915, epoch))
+               shrink_caches(i915);
+}
+
+static void __sleep_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
+{
+       struct sleep_rcu_work *s = container_of(rcu, typeof(*s), rcu);
+       struct drm_i915_private *i915 = s->i915;
+
+       if (same_epoch(i915, s->epoch)) {
+               INIT_WORK(&s->work, __sleep_work);
+               queue_work(i915->wq, &s->work);
+       } else {
+               kfree(s);
+       }
+}
+
 static inline bool
 new_requests_since_last_retire(const struct drm_i915_private *i915)
 {
@@ -3346,6 +3405,7 @@ i915_gem_idle_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
 {
        struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv =
                container_of(work, typeof(*dev_priv), gt.idle_work.work);
+       unsigned int epoch = I915_EPOCH_INVALID;
        bool rearm_hangcheck;
        ktime_t end;
 
@@ -3405,6 +3465,8 @@ i915_gem_idle_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
 
        GEM_BUG_ON(!dev_priv->gt.awake);
        dev_priv->gt.awake = false;
+       epoch = dev_priv->gt.epoch;
+       GEM_BUG_ON(epoch == I915_EPOCH_INVALID);
        rearm_hangcheck = false;
 
        if (INTEL_GEN(dev_priv) >= 6)
@@ -3421,6 +3483,23 @@ out_rearm:
                GEM_BUG_ON(!dev_priv->gt.awake);
                i915_queue_hangcheck(dev_priv);
        }
+
+       /*
+        * When we are idle, it is an opportune time to reap our caches.
+        * However, we have many objects that utilise RCU and the ordered
+        * i915->wq that this work is executing on. To try and flush any
+        * pending frees now we are idle, we first wait for an RCU grace
+        * period, and then queue a task (that will run last on the wq) to
+        * shrink and re-optimize the caches.
+        */
+       if (same_epoch(dev_priv, epoch)) {
+               struct sleep_rcu_work *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (s) {
+                       s->i915 = dev_priv;
+                       s->epoch = epoch;
+                       call_rcu(&s->rcu, __sleep_rcu);
+               }
+       }
 }
 
 void i915_gem_close_object(struct drm_gem_object *gem, struct drm_file *file)