On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 06:59:40PM +0200, Michał Winiarski wrote:
> On each call to gen8_alloc_va_range_3lvl we're allocating temporary
> bitmaps needed for error handling. Unfortunately, when we increase
> address space size (48b ppgtt) we do additional (512 - 4) calls to
> kcalloc, increasing latency between exec and actual start of execution
> on the GPU. Let's just do a single kcalloc and setup proper offsets in
> an array, we can also drop the size from free_gen8_temp_bitmaps since
> it's no longer needed.
> 
> v2: Use GFP_TEMPORARY to make the allocations reclaimable.
> 
> Cc: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuopp...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Michel Thierry <michel.thie...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiar...@intel.com>

Is there any reason why it remains a 2D array though? Looks like it can
be reduced to a single block. And why do we allocate a bitmap for the
whole address space rather than just the range being allocated?

While you may just answer the questions posed, this looks clumsy:

> +     *pts = kcalloc(pdpes * BITS_TO_LONGS(I915_PDES),
> +                     sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_TEMPORARY);
> +     if (!*pts)
> +             goto err_out;
> +
> +     for (i = 0; i < pdpes; i++)
> +             pts[i] = *pts + i * BITS_TO_LONGS(I915_PDES);

i..e

for (i = 1; i < pdpes; i++)
        pts[i] = pts[0] + i* BITS_TO_LONGS(I915_PDES);

raises fewer questions.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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