On Wed, 2025-02-12 at 17:48 +0530, Tejas Upadhyay wrote: > Allow user to provide a low latency hint. When set, KMD sends a hint > to GuC which results in special handling for that process. SLPC will > ramp the GT frequency aggressively every time it switches to this > process. > > We need to enable the use of SLPC Compute strategy during init, but > it will apply only to processes that set this bit during process > creation. > > Improvement with this approach as below: > > Before, > > :~$ NEOReadDebugKeys=1 EnableDirectSubmission=0 clpeak --kernel-latency > Platform: Intel(R) OpenCL Graphics > Device: Intel(R) Graphics [0xe20b] > Driver version : 24.52.0 (Linux x64) > Compute units : 160 > Clock frequency : 2850 MHz > Kernel launch latency : 283.16 us > > After, > > :~$ NEOReadDebugKeys=1 EnableDirectSubmission=0 clpeak --kernel-latency > Platform: Intel(R) OpenCL Graphics > Device: Intel(R) Graphics [0xe20b] > Driver version : 24.52.0 (Linux x64) > Compute units : 160 > Clock frequency : 2850 MHz > > Kernel launch latency : 63.38 us > > UMD Compute PR : https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/pull/794 > UMD Mesa PR : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/33214 > might be a silly question: looking at the UMD patches, am i reading it wrong but it looks like the UMDs are just going to always enable low latency hint (as long as hw/kernel supports it)? I mean if that is the system level direction, then why require a method for user-space to request, just always enable in kernel? or is UMD supposed to expose an extention or something for the system integrator supposed to selectively modify app code?
...alan
