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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-19 10:09:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-19 10:09:22 -0700 |
| commit | f4cdf7ca9a1fdcca413157df19753f388a5a224e (patch) | |
| tree | 60a31895b2446cd7fa27514e8c2843534a0de0da /Documentation/gpu/drm-compute.rst | |
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Merge tag 'media/v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-mediagrafted
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- v4l2-core: added ISP statistics support and per-block validation
- v4l2-core: Allow unknown HDR10 white point and luminance
- New camera sensors: Sony IMX678 and IMX471m, Himax HM1092 IR sensor
- New codec: Milos: VPU v2.0 codec support
- isp driver: gained support for Dreamchip RPPX1 ISP framework
- vsp1 driver: gained support for RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H
- Novalake driver: gained CVS support for new NVL hardware
- dvb-core: fix feed leak on failed DMX_ADD_PID
- several driver fixes, cleanups and minor improvements
* tag 'media/v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (308 commits)
media: ipu-bridge: check all DMI entries when overriding sensor rotation
media: v4l2-async: avoid deleting unlinked ASC entry on link error
media: rzg2l-cru: Align bytesperline to hardware DMA stride requirement
media: intel/ipu6: fix async notifier cleanup leak on parse error
media: staging/ipu7: fix async notifier UAF on probe error path
media: amd: isp4: fix self-deadlock in isp4sd_pwron_and_init() error path
media: amd: isp4: release partial allocations in isp4if_alloc_fw_gpumem()
media: rcar-isp: Fix VSPX reference leaks
media: rcar-isp: Release ISPCORE resources
media: i2c: imx415: Release runtime PM reference on VBLANK error
media: i2c: imx415: Return test pattern write errors
media: renesas: vsp1: Declare index variables in for loop statement
media: renesas: vsp1: Make reset control optional to support platforms without a reset line
media: dt-bindings: media: renesas,vsp1: Document RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H SoCs
media: dt-bindings: media: renesas,fcp: Document RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H SoCs
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Add additional 32-bit RGB format support
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Add 16-bit raw Bayer format support
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Implement per-stream reference counting for multiplexed streams
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Use BIT_ULL() for 64-bit stream masks
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Correct color map between V4L2 and ISI
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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(). |
