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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2026-08-14 15:43:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2026-08-14 15:43:51 -0700 |
| commit | 9cc63f8bcd560c760d0b12e15bba8f81c86237cf (patch) | |
| tree | 3b5269b1bcf6714171754946367c51e0590f64da /Documentation/gpu/drm-compute.rst | |
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Merge branches 'expcb.2026.07.24a', 'misc.2026.07.30a', 'rcu-tasks.2026.07.30a', 'srcu.2026.08.11a' and 'torture.2026.08.14a' into HEADgrafted
Changes:
Make expedited grace periods expedite normal RCU callbacks
Miscellaneous fixes:
* Improve diagnostic output with character task states.
* Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design.
* Move from kmalloc() to kmalloc_obj().
* Documentation updates.
* Improve handling of RCU deferred quiescent states.
* Clean up unused function arguments and structure fields.
* Reduce show_rcu_gp_kthreads() stack space.
Tasks RCU updates:
* Clean up after SRCU re-implementation of Tasks Trace RCU.
* Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design.
* Add ->lazy_timer status to diagnostic output.
* Remove an unnecessary memory barrier.
* Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN.
* Documentation updates.
* Convert cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() from macro to static inline
function.
SRCU updates:
* Add Rust helpers for SRCU.
* Avoid losing queued work at cleanup_srcu_struct() time.
Torture-test updates:
* Preparation work for immediate RCU priority deboosting.
* Test RCU readers from real interrupt handlers (as opposed to softirq).
* Simplify code through use of cpumask_next_wrap().
* Improve diagnostic output with character task states.
* Add rcutorture.nwriters parameter to allow lightweight stall testing,
and rcutorture.stall_only to make doing so easier.
* Test an RCU Tasks Trace grace period implying an RCU grace period.
* Make RCU Tasks Trace torturing track reader batches.
* Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN.
* Plug a shuffle_tmp_mask memory leak on kthread spawn failure.
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-compute.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-compute.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f90c3e63a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-compute.rst @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +================================== +Long running workloads and compute +================================== + +Long running workloads (compute) are workloads that will not complete in 10 +seconds. (The time let the user wait before he reaches for the power button). +This means that other techniques need to be used to manage those workloads, +that cannot use fences. + +Some hardware may schedule compute jobs, and have no way to pre-empt them, or +have their memory swapped out from them. Or they simply want their workload +not to be preempted or swapped out at all. + +This means that it differs from what is described in driver-api/dma-buf.rst. + +As with normal compute jobs, dma-fence may not be used at all. In this case, +not even to force preemption. The driver with is simply forced to unmap a BO +from the long compute job's address space on unbind immediately, not even +waiting for the workload to complete. Effectively this terminates the workload +when there is no hardware support to recover. + +Since this is undesirable, there need to be mitigations to prevent a workload +from being terminated. There are several possible approach, all with their +advantages and drawbacks. + +The first approach you will likely try is to pin all buffers used by compute. +This guarantees that the job will run uninterrupted, but also allows a very +denial of service attack by pinning as much memory as possible, hogging the +all GPU memory, and possibly a huge chunk of CPU memory. + +A second approach that will work slightly better on its own is adding an option +not to evict when creating a new job (any kind). If all of userspace opts in +to this flag, it would prevent cooperating userspace from forced terminating +older compute jobs to start a new one. + +If job preemption and recoverable pagefaults are not available, those are the +only approaches possible. So even with those, you want a separate way of +controlling resources. The standard kernel way of doing so is cgroups. + +This creates a third option, using cgroups to prevent eviction. Both GPU and +driver-allocated CPU memory would be accounted to the correct cgroup, and +eviction would be made cgroup aware. This allows the GPU to be partitioned +into cgroups, that will allow jobs to run next to each other without +interference. + +The interface to the cgroup would be similar to the current CPU memory +interface, with similar semantics for min/low/high/max, if eviction can +be made cgroup aware. + +What should be noted is that each memory region (tiled memory for example) +should have its own accounting. + +The key is set to the regionid set by the driver, for example "tile0". +For the value of $card, we use drmGetUnique(). |
