On 2022-11-03 03:58, Zhu, Jiadong wrote: > [AMD Official Use Only - General] > >> The bad news is that this series still makes some things very slow. The most >> extreme examples so far are glxgears (runs at ~400 fps now, ~7000 fps >> before, i.e. almost 20x slowdown) and hexchat (scrolling one page now takes >> ~1 second, I can see it drawing line by line; before it was almost >> instantaneous). I suspect this series makes the overhead of running a single >> GPU job much bigger. On the bright side, I'm not noticing any significant >> intermittent freezes anymore. > > Hi Michel, > > Thanks for the trying. > Is there high priority jobs running while executing glxgears?
Yes, mutter is submitting high priority jobs. However, I don't think that can explain the problem by itself: mutter only draws once per display refresh cycle. Let's assume mutter's GPU work takes ~6-7ms (conservative example, should be less than that usually). That leaves ~10ms per display refresh cycle (at 60 Hz refresh rate) where GPU work from glxgears & Xwayland can run without getting preempted. Since glxgears runs at ~7000 fps without this series, it should be able to draw at least ~70 frames in 10ms[0], which corresponds to over 4000 fps. Yet it manages only 1/10 of that. [0] Worst case consideration, ignoring the fact that without this series, glxgears runs at ~7000 fps while mutter sustains 60 fps. > I am running glxgears while submitting high priority ibs using amdgpu_test, > the fps ranges from 6000~8000. It's getting clear that artificial tests such as amdgpu_test don't suffice for evaluating the real-world impact of this kind of change. > Continuous preemption and resubmission may cause the slow fps. Could you have > a check about how fast the trailing fence seqNo expands. On my side, the > increment of Last signaled trailing fence is < 10 in a second. I had to go back to a kernel without this series, as it was just unusable. As this is my main machine, I don't know when I'll get a chance to check this. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | https://redhat.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and Xwayland developer
