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drm/v3d: Reduce the alignment of the node allocation
Commit 8dd6074 upstream
Currently, we are using an alignment of 128 kB to insert a node, which
ends up wasting memory as we perform plenty of small BOs allocations
(<= 4 kB). We require that allocations are aligned to 128Kb so for any
allocation smaller than that, we are wasting the difference.
This implies that we cannot effectively use the whole 4 GB address space
available for the GPU in the RPi 4. Currently, we can allocate up to
32000 BOs of 4 kB (~140 MB) and 3000 BOs of 400 kB (~1,3 GB). This can be
quite limiting for applications that have a high memory requirement, such
as vkoverhead [1].
By reducing the page alignment to 4 kB, we can allocate up to 1000000 BOs
of 4 kB (~4 GB) and 10000 BOs of 400 kB (~4 GB). Moreover, by performing
benchmarks, we were able to attest that reducing the page alignment to
4 kB can provide a general performance improvement in OpenGL
applications (e.g. glmark2).
Therefore, this patch reduces the alignment of the node allocation to 4
kB, which will allow RPi users to explore the whole 4GB virtual
address space provided by the hardware. Also, this patch allow users to
fully run vkoverhead in the RPi 4/5, solving the issue reported in [1].
[1] zmike/vkoverhead#14
Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mcanal@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Iago Toral Quiroga <itoral@igalia.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240923141348.2422499-8-mcanal@igalia.com
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